Title :
Friends Forever: How Young Adolescents Use Social-Networking Sites
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Abstract :
Children use social-networking sites to establish identity and to find support and comfort as they go through the cognitive, physical, and emotional transitions of early adolescence.
Keywords :
cognition; social networking (online); cognitive transition; emotional transitions; physical transition; social-networking sites; Discussion forums; Educational institutions; Europe; Facebook; Indium tin oxide; Internet; MySpace; Psychology; Urban areas; early adolescence; ethnographic research; social networking; society online;
Journal_Title :
Intelligent Systems, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIS.2009.114
