Influência do vício, relacionado ao uso de mídias sociais, na extensão dos limites da confiança

Abstract

It’s a fact that electronic medias are more and more used as people’s communication and interaction tools, creating the so-called social virtual communities. One of the associated problems, as in any other situation, is related to overusing them. Society has realized that some users transgress the reasonable limits from the point of view of media addiction, time dedicated to it and shared content. This active addiction arises in a loss of control context both individual and collective. The present study aims to verify the correlation between social media active addiction and the extent of trust limits. Therefore, it has been discussed the use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Orkut, among others, by teenagers included in social virtual communities. In methodological terms, according to its nature, this is an applied research, descriptive in relation to its goals and predominantly quantitative concerning the problem approach. Regarding the technical procedures, bibliographic research and survey methods have been used with teenagers in Curitiba city. As a main result, the study show that there is a direct relationship between increased use of the Internet, measured by the level of “addiction", and the intensity or limits of trust. The data show that, more "addicted" of teenager, more intensity are considers the variables or elements of trust in their decisions.