The Influence of Social Networking on Adolescents' Social Willingness

Abstract

The development of adolescents has become a hot topic of social concern. With the continuous development and expansion of the Internet, the popularity of social networking has greatly increased. Teenagers have become the main users of online social media applications, but some negativity on the Internet is more likely to have a bad influence on immature teenagers. This research mainly discusses the relationship and mechanism of adolescents' use of social networks, network social efficacy, and network interpersonal relationships. This paper utilized methodology of face-to-face interview, and analyzed under the theoretical frame of Flow Theory. The research draw a conclusion that there were 5 negative effects of the Internet on young people: addicted to online games, addicted to online dating, internet porn addiction, addicted to online information collection, and computer addiction.