What social negative and positive aspects can be given to the use of social media on smartphones by young people? Which social aspects prevail? Is the use of classical research methods adequate in the assessment of this problem, or should new research methods be adapted to new media? If the youth devotes more than for example one hour a day to browsing social media portals, are there no negative aspects that may disturb social development and sociological, educational and psychological factors? Are there adequate development of new media developed - new research methods that would objectively examine the above issues objectively? On the basis of these studies, one could define a framework for the safe use of social media portals in terms of posted posts, comments and news and, for example, in terms of time spent on the use of these media on a daily basis.
Please, answer, comments. I invite you to the discussion.
Social media invaded every aspect of our lives; is unavoidable for most people as it became one of their daily routine, and consumes a lot of time. I think that its effects on young people should be investigated with well designed methods, created for this purpose by experts in sociology, education, and psychology. This collaboration between them will lead to better assessment of positive and negative impacts on the development and sociological, educational and psychological factors.
Dr Lynette Vernon has studies this with her colleagues. See for examples: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=0wjduO8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Hello Mr Prokopowicz,
I am also very interested in the question that you propose. From my research thus far I have found a lot of literature evidence supporting the social benefits of using social media. However, very little research is available on the social negatives, although this is changing. One article that you might be interested in discusses social overload online leading to social media fatigue undertaken by Zhang et al 2016 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378720616300295
I myself have expanded upon the current literature in this area, undertaking a small scale qualitative study investigating social media discontinuation habits adopted by young adults as a mitigation strategy for technostress and how this strategy impacts upon their perceived and actual social connections. You can read my article from my ResearchGate home page or alternatively Article The Facebook Sabbatical as a Cycle: Describing the Gendered ...
Best,
Jess Franks
Social Media has statistically replaced finances and infidelity as the number one cause of divorce rates in America. It's sad how we allow this psychological and social engineering "tool" to wreak havoc and chaos in our daily lives...SAD...SAD...SAD!!!!!!!!!!
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