The impact of social media on young adults
Study Skills Workshop Assignment
Essay Topic: The impact of social media on young adults
Student: Gorana Gantar
Lecturer:
The impact of social media on young adults
This essay is going to look into the impact of social media on young adults, how widespread it as among this generation, and how strong is its influence. Young or prime adults, according to Erik Erikson 's stages of human development, is a person in the age range of twenty to forty, engages mainly college students, workers and ones still looking for a job. We can think of regular media being a one-way street where we can just obtain the information without being able to give our thoughts on the matter. Social media, alternatively, is a two-way street where information flows both ways, giving us the ability to interact and communicate.
Social Networking Sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo, Hi5, Last.FM., have the major role in young people’s lives. Accoring to the PEW resarch project (Lenhart et al., 2013), the specific sites on which young adults maintain their profiles is Facebook, leading with 71% of users, and MySpace, almost keeping up with 66%. They are less likely to have a profile on the professionally oriented network, LinkedIn 7% .
From an article Youth Engagement and Social Media Guide based on Youth Work and Social Networking Final Report (NYA, 2008), as main reasons and purposes of creating and using these profiles we can mention:
Keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances;
Developing new contacts often with friends of friends, or people with shared interests;
Sharing content, engaging in self expression & exploring identity;
Hanging out and consuming content including commercial and user-generated content;
Accessing information and informal learning;
Participating in informal groups, and formal youth engagement opportunities;
Beside social networking sites, they are some other, less common types of
Essay Topic: The impact of social media on young adults
Student: Gorana Gantar
Lecturer:
The impact of social media on young adults
This essay is going to look into the impact of social media on young adults, how widespread it as among this generation, and how strong is its influence. Young or prime adults, according to Erik Erikson 's stages of human development, is a person in the age range of twenty to forty, engages mainly college students, workers and ones still looking for a job. We can think of regular media being a one-way street where we can just obtain the information without being able to give our thoughts on the matter. Social media, alternatively, is a two-way street where information flows both ways, giving us the ability to interact and communicate.
Social Networking Sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo, Hi5, Last.FM., have the major role in young people’s lives. Accoring to the PEW resarch project (Lenhart et al., 2013), the specific sites on which young adults maintain their profiles is Facebook, leading with 71% of users, and MySpace, almost keeping up with 66%. They are less likely to have a profile on the professionally oriented network, LinkedIn 7% .
From an article Youth Engagement and Social Media Guide based on Youth Work and Social Networking Final Report (NYA, 2008), as main reasons and purposes of creating and using these profiles we can mention:
Keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances;
Developing new contacts often with friends of friends, or people with shared interests;
Sharing content, engaging in self expression & exploring identity;
Hanging out and consuming content including commercial and user-generated content;
Accessing information and informal learning;
Participating in informal groups, and formal youth engagement opportunities;
Beside social networking sites, they are some other, less common types of
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