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ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this conference\npaper, we will analyse the history of the new social media platforms such as\nFacebook, Instagram, twitter, Snapchat compare to the old social media platform\nthat is MSN, Hi5, MySpace. This paper will also demonstrate how people used to\nstay away from social media platform when it first launched compared to nowadays\nthat is people like to share their thoughts along with their pictures to social\nmedia platforms. Statistic concerning the number of users that social media\nplatform has will also be stated in this paper in order to understand more the\nworld of social media platforms and to understand more about the growth of\nsocial media platform during these decades. This paper will also demonstrate the\naspect of narcissistic on social media platform that is how young people\nnowadays like to share everything and anything on social media platforms as\nthey want to boost up their self-esteem. Privacy on old social media platform\nwill also be discussed as an aspect of unawareness of what social media platform\nis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keywords: <\/strong>Narcissistic, Social media platform, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Participatory culture, modern behaviour, Privacy, Instagram, Facebook, positivism of narcissistic, negativism of narcissistic, statistic of social media platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social media forms\npart of the web 2.0. To understand more about the topic that will be discussed,\nthe difference between web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 will be analysed in order to\nunderstand how social media networking has gained territory in our daily life.\nTo start off, web 1.0 was a readable World Wide Web idiom containing flat data.\nHere the interaction between sites and internet users was restricted. Web 1.0\nwas merely a gateway of information from which users collect information\npassively without any of the opportunity to post reviews, comments and feedback\n(“What are the major\ndifferences among Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0?”, 2012). When it comes to\nweb 2.0, it was described as the World Wide Web’s “editable” phrase\nwith customise data. With the exception of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 strengthens web\nusers and sites to communicate directly to each other more openly and autonomously.\nFurthermore, web 2.0 promotes engagement, collaboration, and exchange of\ninformation as well as knowledge to anyone. It is Word Wide Web’s\n“executable” colloquialism with energetic implementations,\ninteractive services, and interaction “device-to-device.” Web 3.0 is\na network which now originally referred to the upcoming years. In Web 3.0,\nmachines would be able to interpret information just like human beings and\nwisely start engendering as well as disseminate valuable content adapted to\ncustomers’ demands and needs (“What\nare the major differences among Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0?”, 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beginning of Social Media Network<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web 2.0 was the first\nworld wide web that introduce interaction among people, hence that\u2019s where\nsocial media have started its journey. The Digital world does have its\nbeginnings throughout the 1960s and 1970s when different domestic and\ninternational institutions agreed to come up with ways to get computer systems\nto converse with each other. Now in a modern framework, this could be seen as\nthe commencement of social networking sites. Thus, it wasn’t up until the\n1980s, as well as the 1990s, that personal computers became more acceptable,\npaving the way for social media to evolve. Perhaps the introduction of\nwriting articles online in the 1990s still played a pivotal role in the era\nof social media (“The History\nof Social Media: Social Networking Evolution!”, 2017). The concept\nhow an average person might log in to the internet and start writing about what\nthey were thinking, or the way they were having emotions, by writing, and\nthat anyone could read and respond to these articles anywhere and at\nany time, helped many people to start understanding the full meaning\nof the internet. Six Degrees is the website which were referred as the\n“first social media” site. It was named succeeding the initial theory\nof “six degrees of separation,” which stipulates that less than\nsix degrees of separation connects anyone in the world towards one another (“The\nHistory of Social Media: Social Networking Evolution!”, 2017)<\/a>.\nThese are often called the hypothesis of “Kevin Bacon’s Six Degrees,”\neven though the trend is inconsequential to Kevin Bacon himself. The possible\nexplanation Six Degrees is viewed to have been the first social media site that\nallows individuals to make accounts along with adding everyone they know to their\npersonal profile. It was revealed officially in 1997 and survived till about\n2001 and it reaches around 3.5 million users at peak (“The History of Social Media: Social Networking\nEvolution!”, 2017). It was acquired for $125 million by Youth\nStream Media Networks in 1999, but it was dismantled a year later (“The History of Social Media: Social\nNetworking Evolution!”, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth of Social media platforms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More social media\nwebsites were created after that namely, MSN which was quite popular, followed\nby HI5, MySpace and many more. With so much of the success coming from Central\nAmerica, Hi5 was among the most popular social networks in 2007 when it\nencountered an enormous progress spurt (“What Is Hi5, and Is It Different from Facebook?”, n.d.).\nOne of the most popular social networking platforms at that time was MSN, when\ntalking about MSN people start to revive some memories about how they knew MSN,\nhow new it was for them in terms of the sound, photos available as well as old\nemoticons. Window live Messenger, previously known as MSN Messenger, was\nintroduced in 1999 but had been dismantled in 2013 for most users after Microsoft\nacquired their challenger Skype (“MSN Messenger to end after 15\nyears”, 2014). This impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of\nadolescents who were still getting used to what it once was like living on the\ninternet in an age before real social networking (“MSN Messenger to end after 15 years”, 2014).\nMSN Messenger introduced a new era that is a time when a fellow student was\nchatting was no longer a frightening thought of having to try to convince themselves\nabout something. However, now in the 21st<\/sup> century the most popular\nsocial networking sites are basically, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn,\nTwitter as well as YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook as a platform for university student<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook was initially launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollom, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. At first, Facebook was a platform that was only available for Harvard university students. Even though it spread rapidly to the rest of the Ivy League, Stanford and MIT (“The History of Social Media: Social Networking Evolution!”, 2017). That being said, after 2006, anyone stating to go beyond the age of 13 was able to reach Facebook, instead of whether or not they had a university connection or assess. Facebook has grown significantly after its initiate and successive expansion, outpacing MySpace as one of the most frequented websites on the internet in 2008 (“The History of Social Media: Social Networking Evolution!”, 2017). In 2012, Facebook became public and earned a $ 104 billion appraisal, making it one of the largest IPO valuation ever. It presently generates more revenue in surplus of $ 40 billion a year and is viewed to be one of the world’s largest tech companies. It can also be said that Facebook is among one of the most used platforms in the world. According to Global social media ranking Facebook is the most use apps and it is in the first place followed by WhatsApp, YouTube, WeChat, Instagram and so on (“Global social media ranking 2019 | Statistic”, 2019). Then comes Instagram, it is basically an app where internet users can share their photos along with displaying some story which is valid for 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Instagram we know today began life as a fundamentally different\noperation intended to teach some coding skills to Kevin Systrom. Again, at the\ntime, Systrom ended up working in marketing for the former US Subway Directions\nNextstop app but began to create an app called Burbn which was to be a mixture\nof Foursquare’s check in service and Mafia Wars online game based on HTML5 (Woods,\n2013). Instagram was launched in 2010 and after only a few hours it flew from a\nbunch of users predominantly friends and early reviewers to the number one free\nphotography app. Instagram had more than a million users by December 2010. The\nservice’s prominence kept growing within the next two years and the Instagram\nteam continued to add features such as hashtags, new filters, high resolution\namong other things, photo support and one click rotate as well as stories,\nhighlights which appears on the profiles of individuals, and it recently came\nup with throwback pictures also known as memories. The 150 millionth photograph\nwas uploaded to the service in August 2011. It had more than 10 million users\nby the end of the month of, September 2011, and secured $ 7 million in Series,\na funding in a deal that valued the company at about $ 25 million (Woods, 2013).\nConceptualised as an apple app, until April 2012, when the Android version was\nreleased, Instagram remained available only on Apple’s platform. It was scooped\nup by Facebook shortly afterwards for a cool $1bn in cash and stock, even\nthough the final amount was dramatically less after a drop in the NASDAQ Facebook\nvalue (Woods, 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DOES SOCIAL MEDIA\nPLATFORM INTENSIFY A NARCISSISTIC TRAIT?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, knowing that now the number of users using social media platform\nare increasing, the real question is: \u201cDoes social media platform really intensification\na narcissistic trait that may be an unwanted result of sharing images,\nincluding selfies?\u201d According to Gianna Emilio, \u201cThe Open Psychology Journal,\nshow that participants who posted large numbers of photos and selfies on social\nmedia developed a 25 percent rise in narcissistic traits over the 4-month study\nperiod\u201d. Nowadays, more and more people are posting selfies about what they\nate, or they are posting video about how they cooked their food thus, this may\nbe classified as a narcissistic trait from social media users. Compare to long\nago when social media platform was introduced, people was not sure whether to\npost everything about themselves. When it comes to uploading their real\npictures or even their real name they would think twice before doing so as they\nwanted to have a more private life on social media and not to merge their real\nidentity and their online identity. Researchers from Swansea University in the\nUnited Kingdom and University of Milan in Italy worked for 4 months with 74\nindividuals involved, aged 18\u201334. Sixty percent use Facebook, 25 percent use\nInstagram, and 13 percent use Twitter and Snapchat. The participants used\nsocial media on average for almost 3 hours a day, and that doesn’t include job\nuse, however some participants confirmed personal consumption up to 8 hours a\nday. Generally speaking, those of us who posted photos in proportions perceived\n“obscene” by the researchers showed an average 25 percent increase in\nnarcissistic features over the period of study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Narcissism is self – obsession, and narcissists generally think they’re better than others, inflate their own admiration, and believe they’re special and important. Buffardi and Campbell found that social media involvement could be anticipated by these traits (Buffardi and Campbell, 2008). “Narcissism among young adults has been consistently and positively correlated with online content generation” (Poon & Leung, 2011). Those with narcissistic tendencies tend to report more social network friends and wall posts and are more willing to upload pictures (Ong et al., 2011). The use of social media enables individuals to demonstrate their ambitions and illustrate their accomplishments to a potentially massive audience and obtain conspicuous rewards and acceptance through “likes” and supportive comments from other social media users. Most contemporaneous analyses adhere to narcissism as a relatively wide domain of psychological traits, reflected among several other things by self-centred narcissism, superiority, manipulation, and similar characteristics (Alarc\u00f3n & Sarabia, 2012). However, the complexity of the construct of narcissism needs to be emphasised. In particular, social media can be a rewarding and fulfilling medium for people with high narcissistic characteristics, and it is theorised that narcissism is positively linked to the addictive use of social media. It also claims that inner self-evaluations that is self-confidence or self-esteem play a role in the use of addictive social media (Andreassen, 2015). These assessments may require fundamental beliefs, attributions, projects, and automatic thoughts and have the power to generally activate behaviour including social media activity (Beck, 1995). Therefore, it could be hypothesised for people with high narcissism (Marshall, Lefringshausen, & Ferenczi, 2015).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, it could be said that nowadays internet users are more prompt to\npost more and more pictures as well as sharing their emotion with their\ninternet friends and acquaintance. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and other\nsocial media applications can represent an ideal social arena for people who\nenjoy and are attracted to ego-enhancing activities as they encourage people to\nreinforce their self-importance on the basis of immediate feedback from\npotentially massive numbers of other people. All in all, this study shows that\nbasic demographic variables\u2019 narcissism, and self-esteem are all affiliated\nwith social media addictive use. Highly addictive use of social media was\nlinked to lower age, being a woman, not being in a relationship, lower\neducation, being a student, lower income, having narcissistic characteristics,\nand negative self – esteem. Combined, these variables had a progressive effect\non the addictive use of social media, whereas all in all their relative value\nwas small. Low self-esteem had the toughest effect on the use of addictive\nsocial media after influencing for all other variables in the equation,\nfollowed by being a woman, narcissism, and lower age. Even though using social\nmedia is a usual and prevalent modern behaviour, individuals with some of these\ncharacteristics could be targets for interference with the aim of averting\naddictive and destructive an online participatory culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONCLUSION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To conclude, it could be critically said that, narcissism could be both be\nclassified as a positive and negative thing. In terms of positivism of narcissism,\nit could help people who have low self-esteem in them, to have people liking their\npost, photos, comment as it will boost their self-confidence. Another positive\nthing about being narcissism would be for people who want to work in the photography\nworld or in the cinematography world as they need to show what they like to do,\nto eat, how fit they are maintaining themselves, thus having social media\nplatform and posting pictures, post and many other thing may help them to\nachieve their goals in life. However, showing too much of their personal life\nmay become a negative thing for the users, as it could have negative impact on\ntheir life as hackers could hack their accounts and have access to all their\npersonal information such as where they live, their phone numbers, as well as\nhave access to their photos and use them in different ways. Hence, narcissism amongst\nyoung adults can be consistently and completely correlated with online content creation.\nFurthermore, low self-confidence had the harshest consequence for the use of social\nmedia after inducing all other variables in the comparison with behaviour. Narcissistic tendencies tend\nto report more social network friends and wall posts and are more willing to\nupload pictures, hence use of social media to enables people to reveal their determinations\nand show their goings-on to a potentially massive viewers and obtain\nconspicuous rewards and acceptance through likes and supportive comments from\nother social media users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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