Social Media relations

Question 1

What are the dangers of social media?

Answer 1

Potential health risks, the superficiality of online relations, online relations are not real and decrease in offline relations.

Question 2

What are the possible effects of social media addiction?

Answer 2

Individuals with poorer mental health, who use social media passively, may experience adverse outcomes.
Decrease in sleep quality.

Question 3

Explain the co-construction theory.

Answer 3

According to the co-construction theory, youth create social media content, youth shape rules for acceptability, online culture is dynamic, and the digital self includes aspects of offline development and identity.

Question 4

What are the similarities between online and offline presence?

Answer 4

There are similarities in identity, discussed topics, negative peer relations, prosocial behaviour and motivations.

Question 5

What are the hypotheses in the preventage of real-life relations?

Answer 5

The hypotheses are the time-displacement hypothesis and the media richness-multiplexity hypothesis.