Social media is in every activity of daily life today. It is used in the business environment but more so in the personal one. Many people develop a dependence on online approval, or dependence on this acceptance. Which could be a sign of low self-esteem.

Personal insecurity is the engine that normally leads those who are part of social networks to seek the approval of their contacts. This happens in purely interactive networks such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, where approval of the shared content is always expected.

Nottingham Trent University conducted a study where it determined that “people with low self-esteem are more likely to spend more time on social networks, actively seeking the approval of others through these mechanisms.”

The impact that these people experience on their personal perception causes negative judgments not only of themselves but of their capabilities. “As a result, they depend more on the opinion of others to feel valued. Social networks, with their structure based on immediate feedback, provide a constant supply of external validation, which can be addictive for those who lack self-confidence.”

People with low self-esteem are always making comparisons with others in terms of achievements, physical beauty or wealth, and this causes anxiety, stress, depression, as demonstrated by a study by the University of Pennsylvania.

Excessive use of networks, as a consequence of the search for validation, leads people to greater exposure on these platforms, as they are always looking to fit into a profile. In this regard, it is useful to mention a study by the Royal Society for Public Health in the United Kingdom, where “70 % of young people between 14 and 24 years old claim that social networks negatively affect their self-esteem.”

To end this dependence on external acceptance, particularly on social media and similar platforms, campaigns are required to promote healthy self-esteem and self-acceptance, as well as to educate about the dangers of social media addiction.

M.Pino

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The multinational Google, owner of YouTube, is considering the idea of ​​adding a new function to the music channel called Listening control through a few buttons at the bottom of the screen so that users can better control what they are seeing.

With a simple touch on the three vertical points, which will appear at the top right, a pop-up window will be displayed and by selecting those controls “we will make all the information on likes, shares, as well as other recommended videos, disappear to show a empty surface only populated with those buttons.”

The reason why YouTube wants to do this is the “possibility of playing content in the background, with the screen off, both when listening to music, such as talks, lectures, homilies by youtubers or whatever.” This is a feature that Premium users with paid subscription are already enjoying.

New layout for YouTube

With the YouTube redesign in all that area of ​​controls, subscribers will be able to “manage what they see as if it were a song on Spotify or any other platform quickly and without so much noise on the screen.”

The company considers that users value these changes positively because sometimes so many elements on the screen make it difficult to operate the playback, select the direction or what to do.

YouTube is said to possess a two-keys soul. The first is the “world’s most important video playback platform,” which houses millions of user-uploaded content. The second is associated with the streaming music app that on different occasions “overshadows what Google considers its main option, which is YouTube Music.”

M. Rodríguez

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The social network Instagram has begun to test a function that allows users to choose whether to hide the information from the counter of “likes” of the publications, a feature that will also be tested on Facebook later.

Since 2019, although only in the testing phase, Instagram stopped automatically showing the post’s likes counter for some users, so that people can focus more on content and less on popularity.

Now, Instagram has begun to give a small percentage of its users on a global scale, also as a test, the possibility to choose between three options on how they see likes on the platform, as the company has confirmed to TechCrunch.

The first one hides all Instagram like counters, while the second only removes them from the user’s own posts. The third keeps the information intact and continues to report the likes.

This configuration can be established both from the settings menu of the social network and in each publication separately, through the three-point button on the posts.

Source: dpa

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