College students are spending more time on social media sites such as TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. With their increasing popularity, negative effects of problematic use have been identified such as decreased self-esteem and psychological well-being. Social media use becomes problematic when it is used in unhealthy ways. The purpose of this research is to examine how factors like self-esteem, anxiety, attitudes towards social media, and perceived control can predict how people use social media. The impacts of this problematic use are also being studied, including college adjustment and overall life satisfaction. Data is currently being collected (N= 73) from students at small private liberal arts university in the Great Lakes region by anonymous electronic forms. Participants completed nine different surveys pertaining to demographic variables, state and trait self-esteem, perceived control, affectivity, social media use, attitudes towards social media, adjustment to college, and satisfaction with life. We hypothesize that low levels of self-esteem and perceived control will contribute to problematic use. Also, high anxiety and negative attitudes towards social media will be more likely to cause problematic use. Problematic social media use can then be used to predict poor adjustment to college and poor life satisfaction. These findings are important to the field of social psychology and personality and can be used to limit problematic social media use and its overall adverse effects.