IDENTIFYING ETHICAL AND SAFE PRACTICES OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE AMONG ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

When adolescents are using social media, they are not giving focus on the ethical and safe practices to use the relevant platforms. So, the understanding of the ethical and safe practices has turned to be a crucial area to be considered, when studying the usage of social media among adolescents. Mostly the adolescents are not aware how social media is affecting to their lifestyles. This study will be focusing on this specific area of identifying the ethical and safe practices in terms of usage of social media. The purpose of this study is to bring the crucial points towards the awareness of the society, so they can get to know about the importance of learning these practices. This paper will eventually highlight and introduce, ethical and safe practices for social media usage among adolescents. The methodology that will be used is based upon qualitative data and observational data. A questionnaire is passed through online media, and we will be collecting the data received through that questionnaire and few interviews will also be conducted. Primary data was collected with 384 participants from the survey and the findings are as follows. The participants are familiar with the social media platforms, and they are not quite aware of the ethical practices to use social media safely. At the end of the paper proper and ethical practices will be suggested.