The Function of Social Media in the Lives of Today's Young Adults

Brahmmanand Sharma, Navita Nathani, Praveen Aronkar

2023

Abstract

In today's digital world, social media, and particularly social network sites, have become a divisive intersection where the majority of the population projects their preconceived notions without any deliberate intent to understand the entire context of a situation. This has the effect of creating a polarising environment. While one half of the story can be explained by all good things such as expanding geographies, breaking cages, patron engagement, and social uprising in areas where there are hindrances by the society but on a broader level has placed social media tool as on a higher stratum, the other half of the story can be visualised on an individual level where influencers, viewers, news promoters, followers, and members of virtual communities where social media has an ascendancy for leveraging the amplificatio The exponential growth in the use of social networking sites (SNS) among millennials over the past few years raises the question of whether or not millennials become more narcissistic as a result of their use of social media, which would have implications for both their personal and professional lives. Measures of the NPI-16 and the NPI-40 can provide a researcher with aspects of the theory that are mutually exclusive, but they cannot prove an interrelationship with an external stimulus that moulds, influences, and participates in the personality development of an individual over the course of some period of time. The psychographic profile of the respondents was mapped with their intake of social media and their narcissistic behaviour through the use of a descriptive study that was cross-sectional in nature. This study investigates the fundamental characteristics of narcissism, including Authority, Exhibitionism, Exploitativeness, Superiority, and Entitlement, as well as the interrelationships between these characteristics

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sharma B., Nathani N. and Aronkar P. (2023). The Function of Social Media in the Lives of Today's Young Adults. In Proceedings of the 1st Pamir Transboundary Conference for Sustainable Societies - Volume 1: PAMIR; ISBN 978-989-758-687-3, SciTePress, pages 692-698. DOI: 10.5220/0012501400003792

in Bibtex Style

@conference{pamir23,
author={Brahmmanand Sharma and Navita Nathani and Praveen Aronkar},
title={The Function of Social Media in the Lives of Today's Young Adults},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Pamir Transboundary Conference for Sustainable Societies - Volume 1: PAMIR},
year={2023},
pages={692-698},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012501400003792},
isbn={978-989-758-687-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Pamir Transboundary Conference for Sustainable Societies - Volume 1: PAMIR
TI - The Function of Social Media in the Lives of Today's Young Adults
SN - 978-989-758-687-3
AU - Sharma B.
AU - Nathani N.
AU - Aronkar P.
PY - 2023
SP - 692
EP - 698
DO - 10.5220/0012501400003792
PB - SciTePress