I can relate to many teenagers today by admitting the fact that I am a heavy social media user. Over the past few weeks, I have read many articles that have been headlining how influential social media is towards affecting people's personality and confidence. From this I did not just become concerned about how I might be affected, but also how it may affect other teenagers or even adults. According to Whatis.com, social media "is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content sharing and collaboration" (Whatis, 2016) All sounds very social, however according to articles from USA Today, Science Daily, and Readers Digest, have all made comments about how we humans are becoming narcissists. Science Daily expressed individuals with narcissist syndrome to think of "themselves as being exceptionally talented, remarkable and successful. [Meaning] they love to present themselves to other people and seek approval from them" (Gnambs, 2017) Reading this article was shocking, because I asked myself the question "am I really that desperate?" This lead me to compose an investigation on whether social media was affecting two key expressive traits, that being personality and confidence. Even though we may be living in 'generation me', where we could easily assume from that we are highly confident and mixed in personality types. I believe that world only exists on social media, because we have a screen to protect us from either the good or bad expression made by others. This protection must have some deliberate affect towards our real confidence or personality traits. The observation made above has allowed this investigation to find out whether the amount C Ca ex pe