Social Media Usage and Digital Detoxification on Teenagers in Medan

Yovita Sabarina Sitepu, Hendra Harahap

2019

Abstract

This research is about social media usage and digital detoxification on teenagers in Medan. It aims to know how the teenagers, especially high school students in Medanspend their time on social media, what the impact of the social media usage on their health, and their efforts to reduce their social media addiction. Descriptive Method is used in this resaearch and data is collected through questionaire and focus group discussion (FGD). There are 300 students from six high schools in Medan as sample and 14 of them representing their school as informants in FGD session. This research finds that 93% of the students use Instagram and Whatsapp and they spend more than 1 hour per day to access their social media site. From FGD, it finds that the students feel their life become meaningless without social media. All of the informants never hear about digital detoxification before but they are willing to try such as make a no phone zone in their home and dim their phone screen light so that they can not distract easily when notifications come in.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sitepu Y. and Harahap H. (2019). Social Media Usage and Digital Detoxification on Teenagers 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 351-355. DOI: 10.5220/0010021403510355

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosop 319,
author={Yovita Sabarina Sitepu and Hendra Harahap},
title={Social Media Usage and Digital Detoxification on Teenagers in Medan},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP 3,},
year={2019},
pages={351-355},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010021403510355},
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 - Social Media Usage and Digital Detoxification on Teenagers in Medan
SN - 978-989-758-472-5
AU - Sitepu Y.
AU - Harahap H.
PY - 2019
SP - 351
EP - 355
DO - 10.5220/0010021403510355