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This article was written to study and understand how social networks have changed the way we perceive and create relationships. The exponential increase of social media (SM) has become not only convenient, but also a common habit. It has changed people’s habits and brought a new way of being since the technology era arrived. Although there are several advantages in using these social networks, the uncontrolled use and abuse can be alarming, thus the importance of this research. There are plenty of papers related to the impact of social media on adolescent behaviour and on young people’s academic performance. However, this paper aims to examine the facts and provides a comparison of the effect of social media use between different age sectors: adolescents (between 10 and 17 years old), young adults (18–30), adults (31–45), older adults (46–65) and seniors (+66). In order to explore this issue, an online survey was developed. Using a sample of 358 participants, social media use was analysed by age sectors, focusing on the dependence, habits, the reasons/motivations for people to have these accounts, and how different generations perceive the future of social media.
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We could not have conducted this research without our survey respondents, to whom we would like to address a special thank-you for their time, suggestions and collaboration, and everything these 358 people have done to contribute to this paper.
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Zêdo, Y., Costa, J., Andrade, V., Au-Yong-Oliveira, M. (2020). Social Media: People’s Salvation or Their Perdition?. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S., Orovic, I., Moreira, F. (eds) Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1160. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45691-7_14
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