Services of social media have played a key role in the everyday life of young people temporally and culturally. Social media has allowed teenagers a new channel to express themselves and created a new way to create new friendships with like-minded people. With the help of the services, it is easy to keep track of the people of the public, to communicate with your friends and read the news. Also tracking events, finding product information and reading your friends' opinions and knowing their location are important aspects of using services. An important part of social media services is self-expression: tell about your own activities, location and plans, ask and communicate with your friends about your opinions and ideas. Personal blogs have also gained great popularity among young people in bringing their own opinions.
Why do I want to use social media services?
Using social media as a source of information seems an easy way to ask neutral opinion about things from your friends or other users. Services are easy and comfortable to use for searching and communicating information. The use of social media services has often only become a habit. Friends' comments, likes, praise, and jokes are also important to the content of the services. I add to the services photos and my own thoughts, and it is important what kind of reception I add the material to friends and followers.
How long do I spend time on the internet?
I spend a lot of time on the internet. More than I have to and my parent say the same thing.
The timing of my social media is clearly emphasized from the afternoon until the night, at 15-01. But still I use social media about two to three hours per day.
Today's young people (including myself) use too much social media. It eats a lot of time and it does not really give much. People become curious typhoons and the world view turns even more selfish and begins to achieve narcissistic features when it wants more and more to bring about itself
There are good things about social media. It's easy to use and you can communicate with your friends but it has also bad things about it.
Social media takes all the spare time and it hooks up, I want to get rid of the whole social media
Social media dominates the world too much. I also look forward to getting hobbies so I should not hang over the internet so much.
-Lotta Vääräniemi and Annie Määttä 9C
