Motivations for Social Media Use

By Life Stage and Gender

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220704.071How to use a DOI?

Keywords

social media; motivation; gender; life stage

Abstract

The paper reviewing the main motivations that drives people in different life stage and gender to use social media. Through reviewing of previous literature, this paper finds that access to information is the main motivation for using social media for almost all age and gender groups. Similarly, self-expression is a common motivation, particularly for women and young college students, who are much more likely to post news and status on social media than other categories. Therefore, young people and women of all ages and genders are the most widespread and consistent users of social networks. The homosexual community as a special group. In today’s society, they are more interested in expressing themselves on social networks to gain social acceptance and to satisfy their need for self-identification and finding people who are similar to them. The limitation that remains at this stage is that the population studied is not broad enough and there are many influencing factors such as culture or job difference that have not been taken into account.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jinghang Xu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - Motivations for Social Media Use
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 380
EP  - 385
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.071
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.071
ID  - Xu2022
ER  -