Online Risks Research in Teenagers: Survey on Teenagers as Social Media Users in Medan

Hendra Harahap, Yovita Sabarina Sitepu

2019

Abstract

This research aims to find the trend in teenagers while using social media to gratify their information seeking and to knows how about their social media habits. This research specifically want to find the online risks that encountered by them while looking for information through social media. It shows that teenagers’ use of social media in Medan still in balance between educational needs, such as: doing assignments and looking for information and entertainment needs (eg. Music, video clip and games). Online risks that experienced by them such as receiving messages that make them scared, exposed by images of sexual videos or photos, seen weebsite where people talk about or share their experiences of taking drugs. Meanwhile, contact risks that have been experienced by the teenagers are from giving their private information to a person they have only had contact with online, to being bullied by online.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Harahap H. and Sitepu Y. (2019). Online Risks Research in Teenagers: Survey on Teenagers as Social Media Users in Medan.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP 3, ISBN 978-989-758-472-5, pages 288-293. DOI: 10.5220/0010018302880293

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosop 319,
author={Hendra Harahap and Yovita Sabarina Sitepu},
title={Online Risks Research in Teenagers: Survey on Teenagers as Social Media Users in Medan},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP 3,},
year={2019},
pages={288-293},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010018302880293},
isbn={978-989-758-472-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP 3,
TI - Online Risks Research in Teenagers: Survey on Teenagers as Social Media Users in Medan
SN - 978-989-758-472-5
AU - Harahap H.
AU - Sitepu Y.
PY - 2019
SP - 288
EP - 293
DO - 10.5220/0010018302880293