Usages of Social Media Sites among Adolescents: An Explorative Study

Author: Kshiptimayee Patra* and Sampreety Gogoi

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ABSTRACT: The use of social media has led to a significant transformation in how individuals communicate and interact. People are increasingly using Social Networking Sites (SNS), particularly young teens. Social media allows us to interact with others and maintain a good social relationship with them. Adolescents are more dependent on such sites for a variety of reasons, including keeping in touch with friends, taking notes, staying up to date on new trends, and staying up to date on current events, among others. Adolescents become social media addicts who spend more time on these sites than adults. This can have an impact on their academic performance as well as their physical and mental health in their later life. The study was an attempt to identify different social media sites used by adolescents, reasons for using different social media sites by the adolescent. The respondents were high school students of class VII to class X from the Jorhat block of Assam. A total of 118 numbers

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Keywords: Social media sites, adolescents, usage, probability proportional to size (PPS), WhatsApp