Under the supervision of our faculty instructor Dr. Nikki Legate and lab instructor Elizabeth Howard, a team of four undergraduate students (Adeena Ahmed, Aume Waheed, Nadyah Mohiuddin, Sunny Shah) at the Illinois Institute of Technology replicate Study 1 of Forest and Wood's Self-Expression on Facebook study. This is an exact replication of Study 1, with two exceptions. First we aim to recruit a bigger sample size. In the original Study 1, there were 80 participants, whereas we aim to collect data from 100 participants. Second, because the methods in the original paper do not specify whether or not the original study was done online or in-person, we accounted for both scenarios. As such, we aim to collect 50 participants who complete the survey online, and 50 who complete the survey in the lab, and we will statistically examine for any differences by method. **Abstract From Original Paper** The popular media have publicized the idea that social networking Web sites (e.g., Facebook) may enrich the interpersonal lives of people who struggle to make social connections. The opportunity that such sites provide for self-disclosure—a necessary component in the development of intimacy—could be especially beneficial for people with low self-esteem, who are normally hesitant to self-disclose and who have difficulty maintaining satisfying relationships. We suspected that posting on Facebook would reduce the perceived riskiness of self-disclosure, thus encouraging people with low self-esteem to express themselves more openly. In three studies, we examined whether such individuals see Facebook as a safe and appealing medium for self-disclosure, and whether their actual Facebook posts enabled them to reap social rewards. We found that although people with low self-esteem considered Facebook an appealing venue for self-disclosure, the low positivity and high negativity of their disclosures elicited undesirable responses from other people. **Materials** * The original paper is [here][1] (will require a library subscription). * Study 1 materials are in the paper or otherwise easily available. [1]: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/23/3/295