Impacts Social Media Have on Young Generation and Older Adults

Wenxin Li; Xuantong Lin; Jiani Wu; Wenhan Xue; Junxian Zhang

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Impacts Social Media Have on Young Generation and Older Adults

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Wenxin Li¹^{, †}, Xuantong Lin²^{, †}, Jiani Wu³^{, †}, Wenhan Xue⁴^{, *}^{, †}, Junxian Zhang⁵^{, †}

¹Grand International School, Qingdao, Shandong, China

²Shenzhen Foreign Languages School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

³Guanghua Academy, Jiading, Shanghai, China

⁴The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, Massachusetts, the United States

⁵Jinling High School Hexi Campus, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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These authors contributed equally.

^*Corresponding author. Email: wxue2022@csw.org

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Wenhan Xue

Available Online 24 December 2021.

DOI: 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.051 How to use a DOI?
Keywords: Social media addiction; Young generation; Age difference
Abstract: This review paper aims to find out how people from different age groups will be affected by social media addiction from a developmental perspective, whether people from certain age groups are more likely to have social media addiction problems and why. Recent research mostly focuses on a specific age group, without analysing the effect and reasons based on each age group. This paper will look closely at both the young and older generations while mainly focusing on the factors of young people’s social media addiction since they are the largest proportion among the addicted people. According to a review of previous related literature, it turned out that normal social media users won’t bother people’s daily life, whereas social media addiction could have a serious impact, such as depression and anxiety; young people are more vulnerable to become addicted to social media compare to middle-aged adults and elders. This trend’s causes include internal ones, such as low-esteem and low self-control ability, and one external factor, influence from peers. We believe the investigation of how age difference may affect the influence of social media addiction is still insufficient, and more research will be conducted in the future.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 24 December 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6239-495-7
ISSN: 2352-5398
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