SOCIAL MEDIA AND ADDICTIVE PERSONALITIES

Correlation between social media and addictive personalities

Correlation between social media and addictive personalities

Introduction

The Internet has profoundly changed the human experience. We use the Web to find information, buy and sell products, watch television shows, seek mates, search for entertainment, and participate in political spheres (Gil de Zuniga et al., 2009), and. We use it to connect with others - three-quarters of American adults have been online, with even more teens (93%) reporting they do so, and almost all Internet users say one of their primary purposes for going online is for communication (Jones & Fox, 2009).

People one time went online seeking the anonymity it suggested (McKenna & Bargh, 2000); they now more often use the Internet to socialize with persons they manage understand and elaborate their around of associates (Jones, 2009). Two of the primary devices that endow these attachments are social networking sites and instant notes ([Ellison et al., 2007], [Jones, 2009], and [Valenzuela et al., 2009]).

More than half of America's teens and young mature individuals send instant notes and use social networking sites, and more than one-third of all Internet users enlist in these undertakings (Jones, 2009).

 

The function of social media use

This paper defines social media use as the specific utilization of digital media or Internet that has little to manage with customary informational media use. Rather, it presents a means for the assembly to attach, communicate, and combine with each other and their mutual associates through instant messaging or social networking sites. To our information, the most of study on social media use has solely concentrated on social networking sites (i.e. [Ellison et al., 2007], [Raacke and Bonds-Raacke, 2008], [Ross et al., 2009], [Zywica and Danowski, 2008] and [Valenzuela et al., 2009]).

These sites are virtual collections of users' profiles, which can be distributed with other ones to conceive registers of companions and sustain communicate with them (Raacke & Bonds-Raacke, 2008). The registers show each user's attachments with other ones, whose profiles are accessible by individuals encompassed on the list. Most users (nearly 90%) visit the sites to hold in feel with persons they currently understand, and more than half have two or more profiles online (Lenhart, 2009). This paper furthermore builds on this typology by encompassing instant messaging as a standalone characteristic of accessible programs on the Internet or as an embedded characteristic of SNS.

The predominant SNS users are young adults; three-quarters of mature individual Internet users under age 25 have a profile on a social networking site (Lenhart, 2009). The attractiveness of these sites is appealing more and more mature individual users. In 2005, only 8% of mature individual Internet users had an online profile; today, that number has quadrupled to 35% (Lenhart, 2009). Social networking site users are furthermore normal tourists, with more than one-third ascertaining their profile sheet every day and nearly another 25% visit every couple of days.

Among teens, these figures are higher - nearly half said they logged into their profile not less than one time a day ...