Thy Pham HDP 150 HOW SOCIAL MEDIA HAS AFFECTED OUR COMMUNICATION AND IN TURN OUR RELATIONSHIPS

Social Media 74% of adults use social networking sites On average: 1 hour and 33 min daily

How has social media affected our communication and in turn, our interpersonal relationships?

Social Media and Communication Haridakis & Hanson, 2009 Used YouTube for: entertainment, social interaction, And info seeking. Socially active users, more likely to share Videos for social purposes, co-viewing, and entertainment. 427 volunteered college students Self-administered questionnaires

Social Media and Communication Mou, 2012 Risk communication pattern in social media concerning food safety issues in China Positive relationship between microblogging, risk perception, and risk- information sharing Pea, Nass, Meheula, Rance, Kiman, Bamford & Zhou, 2012 Social well-being and young girls media use Negative social well-being =positively associated with media that are about interpersonal and non-interpersonal interaction. Video use and media multitasking was strong associated with negative social well-being. Face-to- face communication was strongly associated with positive social well-being.

Social Media and Relationships Hsu, Wang & Tai, 2011 People who use social media, specifically Facebook, have an increased sense of closeness between themselves and acquaintances after using Facebook but less of an increase in closeness with existing close friends Kujath, 2009 Social media has not served as a replacement to face-to-face communication but rather supplementary. It has also been found that users used Facebook and MySpace not to make new friends; users more often used social media websites to maintain existing relationships

Social Media and Relationships Ledbetter, Mazer, DeGroot, Meyer, Mao & Swafford, 2011 Results suggested that online social connection was a positive predictor of Facebook communication while online self-disclosure inversely predicted Facebook communication. It was found that both offline and Facebook communication is associated with relational closeness (Ledbetter et al., 2011).

Conclusion Not necessarily the case

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