PSYC 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Decision-Making, Media Create, Social Capital
Document Summary
Resources that become available to you as a result of your social network. Get benefit back cause you help someone. How the internet relates to social capital. Online relationship leads to closer, high quality friendship. Able to still maintain relationship overtime/in a distance. Benefits exist only for highly social adolescents. You have close relationship and good social skills. Social media just helps you get better. Benefit for adolescents uncomfortable with face-to-face interaction. Strong social relationship vs. weak social relationship. Bystanders don"t do anything in real life vs. bystanders share online. Who are a target of bullying in real-life is also easily to be bullied online. Relation to ses, ethnic, how well one fits in school. Risks of adolescents being able to post personal info. Most social media sites do have privacy controls. Autonomy for adolescents to post or not post is positive. Not thinking about how in ten years the info will affect you.
