Immersing teenagers in social networks

Let me share my opinion on the matter with you:

Online communities have evolved with the development of the Internet. The growth of the web is to be considered as it gives rise to the birth of the notion of virtual space of exchanges and to a new approach to the notion of community. The best examples are blogs and chats. There, it is up to users to try to establish rules and practices such as the use of avatars or emoticons in order to humanize the exchange. These virtual communities allow individuals to build emotional bonds, to freely interact, to collaborate and to help each other.

Virtual communities are therefore groups that are formed on a network and allow their members, people who may live in different places of the world under different timeline, to interact and share with each other without any limitations of time or geographical localization. From then on, virtual communities can make you feel as you were, in real life, sharing a coffee with friends, meeting people and debating with them. It is then a matter of analyzing what is or can be a virtual community in relation to a real life community. To this end, we point out that the virtual is often perceived in opposition to the real and goes hand in hand with technological progress. This opposition most often results in the perception of the virtual either as a degradation or as an improvement when the notion makes it possible to exacerbate that of community utopia.

Teenagers who have a rather positive sense of discussion also have a rather high sense of influence, belonging and immersion. Teenagers who say they have had relationships on social media have a higher sense of influence and belonging than those who have not had dating experiences on social media.

The sense of immersion and the perception of the internet’s usefulness for adolescents to find answers to their questions about sexuality are not dependent.

On the other hand, the feeling of influence and belonging would have an effect. Adolescents with a high sense of influence and belonging would be more likely than others to use the Internet for privacy issues. Teenagers who have a strong sense of belonging, influence and immersion are more likely than other adolescents to help others on social networks.

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