The development of the person’s social aspects can be greatly influenced by technology due to insufficient amount of real life social encounters.
DIGITAL SELF
Diaz, Evans and Gallagher, 2014
DIGITAL SELF
What three things digital self develops?
FACIAL EXPRESSION
BODY LANGUAGE
EYE CONTACT
Anything that describes a persona an individual presents across all the digital spaces that he or she is represented in.
DIGITAL IDENTITY
___________ always leads to negative consequences.
ABUSE OF TECHNOLOGY
Abuse of technology always leads to ___________
NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES
_______________ express one’s identity to others and helps them make sense of it themselves.
SYMBOLIC MARKERS
____________ allows people to adopt identities independent of the body and the markers it contain.
SOCIAL MEDIA
On the internet people can be whoever they want to be. (_________)
TURKLE, 1995
Set of guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify reasonable, safe and permissible ways for people to behave towards them.
PERSONAL BOUNDARIES
Study shows that ___________ was found to have especially addictive properties.
________ AND _________ are more addictive to social media (Wang, Ho, Chan, & Tse, 2015)
INTROVERTS && NEUROTICS
Introverts and neurotics are more addictive to social media.
WANG, HO, CHAN, & TSE, 2015
Being less open to experience, less emotionally stable, and less conscientious are associated with FB addiction.
Blachnio, Przepiorka,Serol-Durak, Durak and Sherstyuk 2017
- a decline in communication with family members
- reduction of the internet user’s social circle
- passive browsing
- can trigger a sense of exclusion, envy, and loneliness
PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS
Research has found that increased time spent online is related to a __________________ with family members, as well as _______________________________.
DECLINE OF COMMUNICATION
REDUCTION OF THE INTERNET USER’S SOCIAL CIRCLE
Social media use can be particularly maladaptive when it occurs in the form of _________________.
PASSIVE BROWSING
When users spend time on sites like facebook and Instagram exclusively looking at other people’s photos and profile content, it can trigger a sense of exclusion, envy, and loneliness.
Krasnova, Wenninger, Widjaja, & Buxmann, 2013
WHAT IS FOMO
FEAR OF MISSING OUT
According to Urban Dictionary it is “the state of mental or emotional strain caused by the ____________ ; a compulsive concern that one might miss an opportunity or satisfying event.”
FOMO || FEAR OF MISSING OUT
- frequently engage in social comparison
- elicits more negative emotions
- lower grades
PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPACTS
For example, viewing profile pictures of attractive people elicits more negative emotions than viewing photos of less attractive people, and more photo-related activity on Facebook (e.g., posting pictures, viewing friend’s photos) is related to body image disturbances in teen girls.
Meier & Gray, 2014
- Pantic, et al (2012) have found statistically significant positive correlation between depressive symptoms and time spent on SNS.
- Lou, et al (2012) asserted that students who use Facebook intensely reports enhanced loneliness.
- Kross, et al (2013) have found negative correlation between Facebook use and subjective perception of well-being.
MENTAL HEALTH VULNERABILITIES
have found statistically significant positive correlation between depressive symptoms and time spent on SNS.
- Pantic, et al (2012)
