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Social media may positively affect adolescents by promoting a feeling of inclusion, providing greater access to more friends, and enhancing romantic relationships.Social media allows people to communicate with other people using social media, no matter the distance between them. [4]
CNN: Some 23% of parents sampled whose kids are in fifth through eighth grades say they are likely to allow their kids to use social media to make friends. Why do you think this is?
Media personalities seen regularly through mass media, such as online videos, may come to be perceived as friends by the viewer. Parasocial interaction (PSI) refers to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters with performers in the mass media, particularly on television and online platforms.
Journalist Dan Savage receives a Webby Special Achievement Award in 2011 for his anti-bullying It Gets Better Project, [27] which started on YouTube and drew video responses from the highest levels of government. [28] The anti-bullying It Gets Better Project expanded from a single YouTube video directed to discouraged or suicidal LGBT teens. [29]
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A 2012 study by Australian media company Yahoo!7 found 36% of Australians will call or text family and friends and 41% will post on Facebook while watching TV. [102] Yahoo!7 has already experienced significant early uptake of its Fango mobile app, which encourages social sharing and discussion of TV programs on Australian free-to-air networks.
These two things encourage children to spend time on solitary indoor activities, such as watching TV or using a computer. With few or no viable alternatives for play or ability to spend time in person with friends, children since the advent of smartphones are more likely to spend large amounts of time using them, especially through social media.
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