Interviewee: Moiz Mannan
Interviewer: Sohaib Ahmed
Date of interview: 25/7/2021
Location: On Zoom
Age: 21
Acronyms: IN= Interviewer, MM= Moiz Mannan
IN: What social application do you like using the most?
MM: The social media application that I like using the most is Instagram.
IN: How do you think this application is different from the rest?
MM: This application is different in the way that you can upload new photos every day and
you can make new friends quite easily than other social media applications.
IN: How do you think social media nowadays affects the way you think?
MM: Social media nowadays does affect the way we think because it sets unrealistic beauty
standards, and it may cause anxiety and depression to the users as well.
IN: Would you say that this impact is more of a general result of consuming social media, or
does it affect everyone differently?
MM: I think that it affects everyone in a different way because different people have different
inferiority complexes and that the way they perceive the negative impact of this
application is different for everyone.
IN: Do you think that the representation of beauty standards is realistic nowadays?
MM: I don’t think that the representation of beauty standards is realistic nowadays mainly
because of the filters that we see on the photos. There are a lot of people that use
photoshop, and they retouch their photos, thus I don’t think it’s realistic anymore.
IN: Does the participant ever find themselves self-criticizing their physical appearance?
MM: Yes, I can go into inferiority complex when I see other influencers and when I see the
physical appearance of other people, I sometimes criticize my own.
IN: If we talk about the past 2 years, would you say your confidence has increased or
decreased through the usage of social media?
MM: I’d say my confidence has decreased due to the usage of social media because when I
see influencers and when I see how rich they are, I compare them by what I have, I
think that my confidence shatters.
IN: Do you think that social media has increased or decreased your connection to reality?
MM: I’d say that it has decreased my connection to reality because now when I use social
media, I don’t give time to my family and friends and our connection really suffers a
lot.
IN: Does the participant wish to appear more like what they see on social media?
MM: Yes, I do wish to appear more like what I see on social media.
IN: Do trends that go viral on social media have an impact on your life?
MM: Yes, I think that it does have an impact on my life in a way that it makes me talk about
the things that I don’t really want to just to satisfy some of my followers.
IN: What has been your most daunting experience on social media?
MM: As a child I once saw a video on Twitter that I shouldn’t have seen, and I think that was
the most daunting experience of my life on social media.
IN: Do you feel as if you have been influenced due to the usage of social media?
MM: Yes, I think I have been influenced due to the usage of social in a way that I have been
pressurized by the community to upload photos every day so that I can gain followers.