The social distorting mirror – How Facebook influence user's self-appraisal

• Main Authors: Lee,Jou, 李柔
• Other Authors: Sun,Chuen-Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/794pvg

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 多媒體工程研究所 === 101 === Facebook has variety of functions, which creates diverse feelings of places, and the users will have expectations and take actions accordingly. For example, user who posts a message or a photo on his own Profile may feel that it is a stage to perform on, and also expects his friends to notice and give him a ‘like’ or some responses. However, his friends may feel that the ‘Wall’ on Facebook, which shows the messages, is like a public place and thus has misgivings about responding his message. Therefore, we must consider the feelings of places, among other factors, to analyze how Facebook usage affects self-appraisal. According to the phenomenon on Facebook, our hypothesis is that Facebook is like a distorting mirror, users on Facebook easily believe that the responses of their friends are true from their hearts, though not all of them are so. And we have proposed some propositions to explain why Facebook is like a distorting mirror. According to the experimental results, we confirm our hypothesis: Facebook is like a distorting mirror; misgiving, social loafing, and social comparisons are important factors that cause such phenomenon.