Negative Impacts of Social Media on Adolescent Users’

Personality Presented by: Md. Tanvir Alam Anik

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Social Media

• Social Media: A network, A net of relations

• Ex: Facebook, Twitter etc.• Facebook: The most ubiquitous

online environments.• Users: 1 billion monthly active users

and more than half a billion daily active users

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Facebook

Positive Or Negative

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Some Aspects

• Information Source - SNS Search – Search information through

posts/groups/pages

• Online Communication– Chatting– Inboxing– Status Updates…

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Related Works

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Related Works

• Figure out people from his/her social networking activities.

• Personality can be measured• Personality predicted combining five

parameters: Openness, Conscientiousness, extroversion, Ageeableness, and Neuroticism factors.

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The big five model

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Predicting Personality with Social BehaviorSibel and Jennifer[2012]

• Analyze Social Behaviors– Nextwork Bandwidth (NET)– Message Content (MSG)– Reciprocity of actions (REC)– Informativeness (INF)– Homophily (HOM)

• All the previous features computed for the person’s friends to understand her social circle

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What Are They Blogging About? Personality, Topic and Motivation in Blogs

Gill et al. [2009]

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Negative Impacts

• Psychological Disorders• Internet Addiction• Premature Relationships• Aggressive Behavior…

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Problem Formulation

• Adolescents Social Networking– 70% of teens use social media sites on

daily basis and nearly one in four teens hit their favorite social-media sites 10 or more times a day [Survey on 2011]

• Spending significant times• Making friends with unknowns• Becoming members of offensive

groups• Religious Impacts

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Problem Formulation- Timeline Anonymous Adolescent Male Users’ Timeline

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Timeline Analysis

•Development of Facebook App.

•Survey through questionnaire

•NLP

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Result Scoring

• Score negative personalities– Change in behavior– Offline influence

• Comparison– Previous condition– Present condition after using facebook

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Targeted Users

• Survey will be conducted on– English medium facebook users of

Bangladesh• Class 7 to O Levels

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New ideas and future work• Machine learning approaches• Supervised and unsupervised

learning of facebook data

Thank you for your attention.QUESTIONS?