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Web 2.0 and Social Networking - Coggle Diagram

- - - - to stay in touch with friends I don’t see often
      - because all of my [offline] friends have accounts
      - to stay in touch with relatives
        and family
      - to make plans with friends who they see often
      - To fill up free time/not be bored
      - create a presentation of oneself through a profile
    - - Young people’s online and offline social networks are interrelated as the participants’ reasons for adding a person to their profile friend list are based on their offline connections.
    - - problems with their romantic partners
      - Troubles with parents
      - something on their profile page had fixed a problem or
        misunderstanding
    - - A key characteristic of social networking sites is that they consist largely of people with whom the emerging adult is friends with or related to offline.
    - - Users of social networking sites know the majority of their contacts in person.
      - Using social networking sites was
        to stay in contact/communicate with friends.
    - - social realities and roles translate into the online context
      - adults use such sites to interconnect with their peers, which is a core developmental issue during this life phase.
      - on social networking sites youth can present themselves
        in an experimental way
- - - - Used for having first experiences with romantic partner selection
      - Young people seem to present themselves to a large part according to stereotypical gender norms
      - Has stressed that the physical disembodiment of chat room participants might have implications for their behaviour
        
        It was common for users to have a profile with a picture of themselves; adolescents would have intense conversations about primary teenage concerns without the intervening influences of physical presence and physical embodiment
      - Shown that even though in some chat rooms it was possible to set up a profile, it was very common for adolescents to present themselves in then text-based conversations by giving a description of their physical appearance
      - Been used especially for meeting potential romantic partners
      - Teenage chat rooms has shown that young chat room users, above all, interact with
        strangers
  - - - Has come to the conclusion that the people with whom the users of such sites connect are partly friends from offline life
      - Used more to keep in touch and for exchanging (textual and visual) information with offline friends.
      - Used by young people, the visualised self-presentation is one of the most important aspects.
      - Adolescents’ self-presentation of their bodies and faces becomes increasingly more important. On social networking sites much is communicated about the self through photos.
      - Provide the possibility for private communication, through sending messages to others but this is not solely the reason why they have become popular.
      - Young men seem to be experiencing an increasing pressure to display physical attractiveness.
      - The users of social networking sites have a stronger focus on visualised self-presentation.
      - There is a quite a large audience that may provide feedback - praise or criticise - to one’s presentation through the profile
- - - - As different as these applications and the behaviours within them are, we argue that young people use them, nonetheless, to ultimately connect to others and support their own individual development.
      - Show that the technical and communication characteristics of chat rooms and social network sites lead young people to use each of them very differently and for different reasons.