Why Use Social Media?
Over the past decade, expertise has become increasingly necessary in the lives of adolescents. Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Patricia Greenfield look at adolescents' relationships with friends, romantic companions, strangers, and their households within the context of their on-line communication actions. The authors show that adolescents are utilizing these communication tools primarily to reinforce current relationships, both with pals and romantic partners. More and more they are integrating these instruments into their "offline" worlds, using, for instance, social networking websites to get more information about new entrants into their offline world. Likewise, the authors show that on-line content itself may be both constructive and adverse. Although teenagers find valuable help and information on websites, they will also encounter racism and hate messages. Teenagers have to fit in, to be in style, and to outdo others. This course of was challenging long earlier than th...