PSYC 304 Lecture 22: lecture 22 Growing up wired
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Background: 73% of adolescents use social networking sites (sns) lenhart, 2012, late adolescents and young adults spend 30 mins/day on facebook (2009, sns evolve rapidly, social comparison issues. If popular, more attention and feedback on social media. Research designs: self-report, experimental manipulations, objective assessments. Friendship quality: positive correlation between social connectedness and sns use, people with low self-esteem thought that facebook provided more emotional support. Self-presentation: people do not present an idealized version of themselves, but they might alter self-presentation depending on the audience. Identity formation: chronically ill patients, ethnic mintorieis, lgbtq.
