Although it has been found that those who experience social anxiety tend to use social media to compensate for otherwise lacking social interactions (McCord, Rodebaugh, & Levinson, 2014), there is no evidence to suggest that this reduces social anxiety in the future. Furthermore, it was found that people with neurotic tendencies preferred not to use direct forms of communication (such as instant messaging and comments) and instead opted for “asynchronous forms of [communication]” (Ryan & Xenos, 2011) such as posting. Therefore, social media users who experience social anxiety may benefit from a decrease in loneliness due to their preference for communicating via written posts (große Deters et al., 2010) – a largely asynchronous form of communication. Therefore, social media exposes those experiencing social anxiety to more social interactions than they would otherwise experience (McCord et al., 2014). However, it is unclear whether this produces lasting effects, other than a decrease in loneliness due to the tendency to post (große Deters et al., 2010) – assuming that the slight negative effects observed by Burke (2011) are ignored when users both write and visualize frequently