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Research of risks and dangers of communication on facebook and users preference by adolescents

The new media, with the introduction of technological changes, have greatly influenced changes in the communication process. Interpersonal communication, with a limited number of participants, and field of activities, was replaced with the mass communication on social networks, extending the circle of recipients and often erasing the boundaries between the real and the virtual world. One of these social networks is certainly Facebook, where profile today has almost every other juvenile, and that has become a favorite activity of youngsters out of free time. Therefore, the research focus of many previous studies has been on children and adolescents, users of Facebook, primarily due to the increase of violence in online communication, but also because of the numerous risks and hazards they may encounter on social networks, and for whose prevention and mitigation is necessary to ensure basic knowledge of media literacy as a guarantee for strengthening media competencies of most vulnerable groups in society - children and minors. A study was conducted on a sample of 197 children and adolescents from 5th to 8th grade, with objective to explore the use of Facebook and users preferences in juveniles, and to identify all the risks and dangers they faced. The results showed that most respondents access their profile at home via computer or cell phone, in the presence of their parents as well as in their leisure time, while the number of those who practice these activities at school during classes is very small. Furthermore, results have shown that the juveniles were exposed to certain risk factors, such as bullying, sexting and pornographic content, whereby the exposure and the detection was different between older and younger adolescents.

new media ; social network Facebook ; adolescents ; risk communication ; media competence

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