Teenager socialization in network publics.
Nowadays, almost every primary schools and secondary schools be provided full computer and internet facilities. They should know more knowledge for digital culture after computer class. Some of the students use this to get more knowledge through internet but some they will use their knowledge to do bad things. For example, they do their research online (convenience, save time, money), share their knowledge with others and chatting (without hand phone) through MSN, YM! , Skype and etc. At the same time, internet can let user to watch drama as free of charge like PPS and online shopping is quite normal. Addiction TV and games is easy to get from teenagers. Addition, fast food like McDonarld, Pizza Hut, Domino Pizza and etc can get delivery through online. Therefore, teens stay at home 24 hours, never leave their place.
How social network sites fit into teenager lives?
Facebook and MySpace are most famous in our culture. Almost every teenager also has their own account. Convey message at there is like send message to whole world. Facebook is a quite good way to sharing our knowledge, feeling, photo, favor and so on. For teens, they used Facebook and Myspace for a very simple explanation; it’s to hang out with their friends. Not only is it a fun, it is socially critical to participate.
Shella: If you're not on MySpace, you don't exist.
Tara: Like everyone says get a Facebook. You need to get one.
Social network is not primarily for teens, they are about socializing in a networked peer public with one’s social network. In other words, teens go onto Facebook and MySpace to hang out with the friends that they know from school, activities, tuition, church and camp. Their online world is a reproduction of their offline peer networks. Their social interactions move fluidly between online and offline environment. Next, they start adding friends, fleshing out their social network. These are not teens’ closer and dearest, but the peer publics in which they socialize. They include classmates that they don’t particularly like but don’t want to offend as well as their best friends. There are teens that go online to make friends, but this is not standard. At the same time, just they meet new friends or potential love interests at their friends’ dinner parties, teens meet new people through their friends and classmates and cousins and shared affiliations.
lina: Have you met anyone thru MySpace?
San: Not really. There was a girl, who knew me, but I didn't know her, but I added her anyways and she started talking to me… We both attended Young Life at different schools, but then one night there was an all area young life and I met up with her there.
That's one of the benefits of socializing in a public setting. Teens enjoy being exposed to new people through trusted networks. Networked publics like MySpace and Facebook provide the social infrastructure to allow teens to communicate, socialize, share information, and do all of the things that they relish about hanging out with friends. Furthermore, they allow teens to do this within the social context of peer publics. While hanging out with friends one-on-one is fun, much more is gained through hanging out in public and being forced to interact with peers and negotiate social situations.
Friendship plays a significant role in the lives of most teens. Friends influence each other's activities, interests, behavior, and outlook. On one hand, friends provide emotional support, guidance, and validation.
Shawn: It's just fun to talk to your friends on the phone, make sure they're okay and if they are having problems to help them get out of it, and it's cool to have that support.
On the other, friends can also cause drama and engage in battles over popularity and status. Yet, at the end of the day, even when teens' friends frustrate them, they love them very dearly. While many relationships and situations in teens' lives are scripted, friendship is valued for its unstructured-ness. Friends do gather for specific events and activities, but they also gather just to "hang out." Unfortunately, hanging out has a bad rap, especially in activity driven. Many adults believe that such "wasted time" breeds trouble. Sometimes maybe teens will have some different comment with their parents. Therefore this will get quarrel and relationship damaged at last.
In conclusion, teenager's life is affected by networking. Unity in our life is quite important for relationship family. Any different “comment” of teens can try to discuss with their parents in calm and patients mood. Everythings also have their own solutions for that. Easy be happy.
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