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The purpose of this study reveals the cause and relationships of lower self-esteem during the usage of social media services(SNS). We surveyed 184 young people in grades 1 through 3 in middle school. They were asked to fill out the survey asking about SNS addiction tendency and relation of lower self-esteem in the four different major categories of SNS posts. (Appearance, material value, human relationship and leisure life.) As a result, SNS posts related with leisure life and human relationship greatly affects other major categories of SNS posts which lowers youth’s self-esteem. Also, among appearance, material value, human relationship and leisure life, they chose leisure life as second for lowering youth’s self esteem the largest. Therefore, SNS posts about leisure life mostly makes youth see themselves negatively. Although it is difficult to completely stop SNS posts from lowering youth’s self esteem, it is found that by restricting SNS posts related with leisure life, it makes youth reduce to look themselves negatively as much as possible.