However, a small percentage of adolescents (7%)
did predominantly or always receive negative feedback
on their profiles. For those adolescents, the use
of friend networking sites resulted in aversive effects
on their self-esteem. Follow-up research should
attempt to profile these adolescents. Earlier research
suggests that users of social networking sites are
quite able to learn how to optimize their self-presentation
through their profiles.10 Adolescents who predominantly
receive negative feedback on their
profiles may especially be in need of mediation on
how to optimize their online self-presentation