The Self-Knowledge Process

People come to know themselves in large part by observing others’ reactions to them when engaged in faceto-face social interaction. The popularity of and reliance on social media (e.g., Facebook) for social connection
interferes with the self-knowledge process. This interference is compounded, further, by the tendency for
people to pose as who they wish to be but are not (Wright, White, & Obst, 2018). Others’ reactions to them as
a source of self-knowledge is based, then, on an idealized presentation, and social feedback on this idealized
presentation can have little self-knowledge value