The role of social media use on the individual's self esteem: An evaluation in terms of interpersonal communication

Social media has important role in our daily life such as voting, commenting and sharing of information. Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory continues to be an important and simple motivation tool for understanding and implementing what users need. Physiological, safety, security, value and self-improvement are important factor to classify what communicator needs. This thesis has four chapters, the first chapter explain about the concepts of interpersonal communication; In the second part focus on self-esteem. In this research, data were collected by interview method and the study group consisted of 23 people. The researcher carried out the interview method by using specific topics and questions about social media. During the interview, the question has been added by the researcher based on the context of the interview topic, such as making changes such as the way questions. Keywords: Social media, self-respect, interpersonal communication