Comprehensive Literature Review: Instagram's Impact on Users

This report provides a comprehensive literature review on Instagram usage, examining various aspects of user behavior and the platform's effects on individuals. The review synthesizes findings from several studies, including those by Pittman & Reich (2016), Sheldon & Bryant (2016), and Meier & Schäfer (2018), to understand the motivations behind Instagram use, its relationship to loneliness, and its impact on self-esteem and social comparison. The analysis explores how image-based platforms like Instagram can influence user satisfaction, motivation, and interpersonal interactions. The studies reveal that Instagram is a fast-growing social media network that users spend a significant amount of time on. The report also delves into the positive and negative effects of social comparison on Instagram, highlighting how envy can drive inspiration and influence user attitudes and behaviors. Additionally, the literature review investigates the role of Instagram in facilitating emotional experiences and enhancing user well-being, emphasizing its influence on self-esteem and the motivations for using the platform.

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Status Quo of empirical research: Literature review
The digital technologies help the people more remain more connected, therefore through
social media individual also gain the opportunity to share the content through networks. The
estimation describes that in the current year more number of users are adults (Pittman & Reich,
2016). The Status Quo of the study is to understand that the image based platforms which
includes “Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat” decrease the loneliness and raise the happiness of
the individual because of offering the intimacy which are considered highly valuable for the
users. The data collection was done through adopting the mixed .-design survey so that
researchers can test the possibility, for analyzing the data researchers adopt the chi-square testing
method (Pittman & Reich, 2016).
Researchers describes that the various forms of media is evolved in the current year, this
is due to the reason because this leads in increasing more interaction and support the users to
make new friends by using social media network (Pittman & Reich, 2016). It also describes that
Social media use continues to grow and is especially prevalent among young adults. It is
surprising then that, in spite of this enhanced interconnectivity, young adults may be lonelier
than other age groups, and that the current generation may be the loneliest ever. The findings of
status quo describes that by using the image-based social media the users become more satisfied
as well as reduces the loneliness of the person, further researchers also revealed that Instagram,
twitter support the user by increasing their satisfaction level, motivation and help the user to
become more happy and satisfied with the life. The qualitative outcomes of the study describes
that these “image-based content” helps in improving the intimacy which are offered by the social
media application to the users.
Instagram is considered the most fastest social media network which used by number of
user globally (Sheldon & Bryant, 2016). Researchers demonstrate that users spend high number
of time by using Instagram in comparison to the other social media network. Therefore
Instagram is online application which user can share their photos; video and it also provide
opportunity to the user for taking pictures. The objective of status quo is to investigate the
motives of user for using Instagram application, the research also focuses on describing the ways
through which Instagram increase the satisfaction level of the users and support them to live and
think in more positive manner (Sheldon & Bryant, 2016). Researchers revealed that according to

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the assumption of the theory that is U & G theory that user remain more active and use the social
media according to their needs and requirement that is based on the level of the motivation and
self –esteem accepted by the user through adopting social media applications. Researchers
describe that Instagram become one of the growing social media application in which large
number of users remains active. It is because this leads in increasing the motivation level of the
users and allow the user to remain more satisfied with their life.
In status quo researchers also describe that there is direct and positive association among
using the Instagram and to maintain high levelof interpersonal interaction with the other person.
The study will get the information by taking the survey from the 239 students which are in
colleges so that they can describe the main purpose of using Instagram such as because of
“creativity”, “coolness” as well as “ creativity” and due to various other reasons (Sheldon &
Bryant, 2016). The investigation of the study revealed that there is also positive relationship of
the users for using Instagram for the purpose of coolness and creativity and innovative. The
analysis of the data describes that through Instagram users gets motivated because of
documentation and also revealed that users gets more satisfied due to remain cool and also for
the reason of surveillance.
Social network sites (SNS) which includes “Instagram” facilitates the emotional
experience of the user and support the users to remain motivated in their life. Therefore,
Instagram has influence on the well-being of the users (Meier & Schäfer, 2018). The researchers
also describes that Instagram is become one of the more faster which is highly used for the user
and enhance of lives of the user by raising their satisfaction level of user. The status quo focuses
on describing the social comparisons and relation of Instagram with the inspiration, the purpose
of the research is also to state the motivational level by using the Instagram.
Researchers revealed that comparison leads in increasing the increasing the satisfaction
level of the users and also engage the individual to improve the attitudes and behavior of the
users (Meier & Schäfer, 2018). Therefore, inspiration is the complex approach which allows and
support the users to remain self-motivated and to remain well-being, this is also considered the
approach because it support the user to remain motivated and to achieve the state the inspiration.
The study was conducted through adopting the “structural equation modeling mediation
analysis”, in this research the sample size of the research is 385 (Meier & Schäfer, 2018).

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Researchers demonstrate that Instagram increase the ability and drive the inspiration level and
emotions of the user it is because through this the user can communicate large number of other
user and support the individual to remain more connected. The intensity of using Instagram is
more because of considering it one of the most inspiring applications, however youngsters also
use this it is due the reason that it leads in motivating the user to live better life.
The status quo also demonstrates that the researchers measure the social comparisons by
comparing the Instagram with the other social media network such as Facebook (Meier &
Schäfer, 2018). Through the investigation it is revealed that the intensity of Instgram is far more
positive it is because of the intensity of using this application is highly related with the
inspiration and relationship. Therefore, it has positive effects on the motivation and satisfaction
level of the users and raises the well-being of users (Meier & Schäfer, 2018).
References

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Meier, A., & Schäfer, S. (2018). The positive side of social comparison on social network sites:
How envy can drive inspiration on Instagram. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social
Networking , 21 (7), 411-417.
Pittman, M., & Reich, B. (2016). Social media and loneliness: Why an Instagram picture may be
worth more than a thousand Twitter words. Computers in Human Behavior , 62, 155-167.
Sheldon, P., & Bryant, K. (2016). Instagram: Motives for its use and relationship to narcissism
and contextual age. Computers in human Behavior , 58, 89-97.