Assignment #2: Introduction (Youth’s social media usage)

Assignment #2: Introduction

Title : 

How much appropriate youth’s social media usage for reducing negative impacts

Introduction :   

Stage 1  Computer-mediated communication has expanding an influence on human behavior. It changes significantly people interaction that facilitate has modified the nature of their activities and habitats. Computer-mediated user for social purposes has enhanced dramatically over recent years, with 42% of Thai participating in some type of social media website as Facebook, Thailand Facebook user ranks as the ninth of the world in 2014. The number of Facebook users in the country effectively increased from 18.3 million to 28.0 million (Pongvitayapanu ,2014). Social network is a relatively new phenomenon and permits social interaction among users to allows them to create online profiles that represent the user's real-life identity (users personalize profile pages with image, audio, and text, and designate friends and others). It is attractive to people because they can admit for both to self-individualized or inclusion into a group that may not be achievable in physical reality.

Stage 2   Social media have a direct impact on everyone during daily face-to-face interactions; Internet-based entities are playing an increasingly large role during this critical life stage. “Using social media becomes a risk to adolescents” (Fernández ,2011,P31-32) this statement that similar to Cookingham& Ryan (2015) found that online activities become a high- risk to youth’s behaviors. Social Media related to youth’s violence (Patton et al., 2014). 
Stage 3 Not only using more social media consumption, there is limited the amount of youth's peer-to-peer ability to socialize but also being sensitive on the vulnerable to the practice of youth’s violence.How much appropriate to reduce negative impacts for youth’s social media usage . 

Stage 4  One model proposed to explain how youth integrate social media into their self- life. This model assumes three key things in understanding the effect of social media on adolescents that:

1) Social media usage of youth’s behavior.  

2) Social media consumption how its effects are in negative with youth’s users

3) Identify a tool to help reducing ์negative impacts for youth’s social media usage is  and applied in daily life.

Stage 5 The results of this study may suggest a tool for reducing negative impacts on youth’s social media usage.

Reference:

Cookingham,L.M.,&Ryan,G.L.(2015).The Impact of Social Media on the Sexual and Social Wellness of Adolescents.Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology,28(1),2-5.

Fernández,A.(2011).Clinical Report:The impact of social media on children,adolescents and families.Archivos de Pediatría del Uruguay, 82(1),31-32.

Patton,D.U.,Hong,J.S.,Ranney,M.,Patel,S.,Kelley,C.,Eschmann,R.,& Washington,T.(2014).Social media as a vector for youth violence:A review of the literature.Computers in Human Behavior,35,548-553.

Pongvitayapanu,P.(2014).Thailand Zocial Awards 2014[news].Zocial inc.[cited 2014 May 28].Available from: http://www.it24hrs.com/2014/thai-social-network-2014/