Социальные сети в жизни подростков

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Social networks in the life of a teenager: comparison of the most popular social networks among teenagers in Russia and England Ignatenko Elena 9 A

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Introduction The twenty-first century is the century of new technologies. Every modern teenager perfectly uses the Internet. Almost all new generation spends free time in the social networks. We can’t even imagine our lives without visiting our social networks min several times a day. The relevance of the topic lies in the fact that it raises a serious problem: the modern younger generation spends more time on social networks.

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Aim: to investigate the most popular social networks among teenagers and its influence on them. Objectives: - To Get to know the history of the birth of social networks and the most famous among them - To consider positive and negative influence of social networks on teenagers - To find the most popular social networks between Russian’s & British’s teenagers by questioning - To compare the results of this research between two countries The object of the research: social networks used by modern teenagers Subject of the research: the impact of social networks on the life and communication of modern teenagers

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1. Theory 1.1. The basic concepts and characteristics of social networks A social network is a platform, online service or website designed to build and organise social relationships, visualised by social graphs The main features of social networks are: creating personal profiles that require real personal information about yourself providing an almost full range of opportunities for sharing information (from posting the pictures, videos to messaging); The ability to set and maintain a list of other users with whom a person is in a certain relationship

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7 kinds of social media can be identified: Multimedia hosting Blogs and blogging platforms Virtual online games Social networks and messengers Online portals using shared content dating websites Geosocial services

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1.2. The origin of social media The terming of “Social Media” appears in 1954 James Barnes gave the following definition to the term of "Social Network": Social Network represents relationships and flows between people, groups, organisations , computers or other information/knowledge processing entities. The first Social Network in 1971 was Email which was related to the use of computer technology. The Army used this technology in ARPA Net. The creation of the mass Internet was the main reason for the leap in the development of social networks. The main public access to the Internet happened in 1991, but the first Social Network called Classmates.com in the modern sense of the meaning of this word was created in 1995.

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1.3. The most popular Social networks in the world Social Media rating in 2020 Rating Numbers of actives users 1. Facebook 2.6 billion users 2. Youtube 2.0 billion users 3. Instagram 1.08 billion users 4. TikTok 0.8 billion users 5. Sina Weibo 0.5 billion users 6. QZone 0.5 billion users 7. Reddit 0.43 billion users 8. Kuaishou 0.4 billion users 9. Pinterest 0.36 billion users 10. Twitter 0.32 billion users

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1.4. The positive impact of social media on teens

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1.5. The negative impact of social media on teens

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2 . Practical part 2.1. Survey-a study to identify the most popular social networks among Russian's teenagers. Question Field to fill in How old are you? Specify your 3 most often used social networks Which is your favorite social network and why? 20 people took part in the survey, 13 of whom indicated that their favorite social network is Instagram, 3 – Vkontakte and 4 -Tik Tok.

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Results of a Survey Russians' schoolchildren We can see that modern teenagers prefer such a social network as Instagram

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2.2. Survey to identify the most popular social networks among teenagers in England. With the help of friends living in the UK I also interviewed students in grades 6-8 from London 17 people took part in the survey. They have three social networks in the rating included Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok . 11 people surveyed, noted that their favorite social network is Snapchat, 4 teenagers chose Instagram, and the remaining 2-Tick Tok.

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Comparing teenagers in Russia and the UK, we can conclude that among Russian schoolchildren, the most popular social network is Instagram, and among students from England – Snapchat. It is interesting to note that of the surveyed teenagers in Russia, no one mentioned Snapchat, when it is the most popular social network among students in England.

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Conclusion The influence of social networks on the personality of modern youth cannot be called unambiguous. Undoubtedly, social networks are a great technological achievement that gives us a lot of opportunities every day, such as: communication with friends from all over the world, new interesting acquaintances, easy access to a large amount of information. Everyone knows that social networks often cause addiction, and in the future, dependence in the younger generation. The time spent on social media could have been put to better use. through social networks, a teenager consumes a lot of information every day, as a result of which it becomes difficult for him to identify really high-quality and useful data. With the right, disciplined approach to this type of Internet technology, you can benefit, making your life easier in some situations.

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