FACEBOOK’S EFFECT ON MENTAL WELLNESS
Does Facebook Disturb Mental Wellness and Natural Communication?:
An analysis of how Facebook promotes the concealing of information and its potential to
negatively affect mental wellness
Dr. Susan Waters
Stephanie...
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FACEBOOK’S EFFECT ON MENTAL WELLNESS
Does Facebook Disturb Mental Wellness and Natural Communication?:
An analysis of how Facebook promotes the concealing of information and its potential to
negatively affect mental wellness
Dr. Susan Waters
Stephanie Czajkowski
Abstract
This is a literature review applying communication-related theories to interaction via
Facebook to reveal how impression management and deception via Facebook can potentially
harm an individual’s intended audience. Theories discussed include Communication Privacy
Management, Impression Management, Context Collapse, Computer-Mediated Communication,
Perceptual Management and the Five Factor Model of Communication. This review progresses
from general to specific, beginning with an explanation of the communication process via
Facebook and concluding with an explanation of how Facebook’s interruption of communication
norms has the potential to cause mental harm to those engaged.
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