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Adolescents' and young people's sexualized behaviors on Facebook
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) – the Internet and, more specifically, social networks – have revolutionized the way adolescents communicate with each other, and they have also become an important element of socializing for young people (The Cocktail Analysis, 2012). For younger generations, online life tends to be, in most cases, an extension of offline life (Tabernero, Aranda, & Sánchez-Navarro, 2010). However, online technology, which facilitates and amplifies social
Design
In order to perform a deep investigation without losing the young people's points of view, the methodology was based on the research codebook for the social networking sites one developed by Megan Moreno (Moreno, Egan, & Brockman, 2011), which began on the basis of health behavior theory and clinical criteria to consider intentions toward behavior and also included an emphasis on confidentiality.
One of the issues in the use of virtual social networks as an investigation tool is the nonexistence
Results
Regarding the analysis of the profiles, factors that characterize each profile personally and make adolescents and young people more vulnerable to the risks derived from spreading sexual content on social networks were taken into account.
Discussion and conclusions
The objective of the study was to identify the factors that facilitate sexualized behaviors among young people and adolescents on Facebook. A total of 100 profiles were analyzed. The results showed that privacy settings are a facilitating factor for sexualized behaviors. The role of profiles with more than 700 friends is one in which the person can be in the spotlight, disregarding the intimacy they are losing in exchange for fame.
Jacques Lacan called this “extremity” in 1958 (Tello, 2013).
Limitations
One of the main limitations is the sample because stratified sampling was not performed. The sample is not representative of the whole population of adolescents and young people using Facebook in Spain. The fact that Facebook is a social network that can be used by people from any race, culture or socioeconomic status must also be taken into account; it is a virtual representation of every type of group that exists in the offline world. It would be an anthropological matter to detect and
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