Over the past few years, the popularity of social media influencers (SMIs) has been growing
exponentially, making influencer marketing (IM) prevalent in firm strategies. Despite the …

Because of the rise of social networking sites (SNSs), social comparisons take place at an
unprecedented rate and scale. There is a growing concern that these online social …

Social media have been growing rapidly during the past decade. However, it remains
unclear whether social media make people more emotionally healthy or less. This study …

Adolescent use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat has
increased dramatically over the last decade and now pervades their everyday social lives …

Social network sites are ubiquitous and now constitute a common tool people use to interact
with one another in daily life. Here we review the consequences of interacting with social …

Based on a large representative sample of German Internet users aged 14–39 years, the
current survey study investigates how three indicators of decreases in well-being …

The main aim of the study was to investigate Instagram's impact on users' mental well-being
and behavior (including purchasing activity) during the pandemic. The study was conducted …

This review delineates core components of the social media ecosystem, specifying how
online platforms complicate established social psychological effects. We assess four pairs of …

The effect of social networking site (SNS) use on mental health has attracted growing
scholarly attention, yet the nature of this relationship remains contentious. A systematic …

Several studies have explored the psychological consequences of social comparison in
SNS usage. This paper aims to explore the behavioral outcomes of social comparison …