Next, participants were administered a Facebook task. In the no-Facebook condition, participants wrote for 5 minutes abouttheexperienceofbrowsingFacebook.IntheFacebook condition, participants then browsed Facebook for 5 minutes. They were instructed to avoid interacting with their friends or posting content (e.g., “status updates”). Rather, they were instructed to just read their “news feed” while logged into Facebook. This allows for a cleaner comparison between the Facebook and no-Facebook groups since participants either browsed or wrote about browsing Facebook. Afterward, participants completed a three-item reduced version oftheRosenberg(1989)self-esteemscale(“Ihaveapositive attitude toward myself,” “At times I think I am no good at all,”“Icertainlyfeeluselessattimes”;ap.74).Participants then indicated how focused they were on close friends during the Facebook task (“I thought about my close friends,” “I thought about friends whose opinions matter,” “I thought about friends who are influential to me”; a p .95). Finally, they were asked to indicate the extent to which they agreed (1 p “strongly disagree,” 7 p “strongly agree”) that they were focused on Facebook during the study.