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Statement of problem

Nowadays, social network become an amazing phenomenon. There is a huge rise in usage for the last few years. Basically, this social online platform changes the nature of social relationship. People especially teenagers seem rely too much on this way of communication despite the lack of face-to-face interaction. Being dependent to these sites increase the probability that they may encounter the person who is suspicious in behavior. Besides that, social networks play a big role in teenagers life. Trough social networks, teenagers develop virtual relationships. These relationships may give a bad impact or a good cause in teenagers life.

Through social networking sites, users can meet other people worldwide without going out from their house . As a result, t e e n a g e r s interpersonal relationships with other people close to them such as family and friends may be affected. Most of teenagers are being immersed in digital world. Thus, make the teenagers forgetting the physical world around them. As the result of this situation, face-to-face contact decreases shockingly. In addition, their social skills in physical life may be reduced. Basically, these sites hinder face-to-face friendship.

Many teenagers always log into their account on facebook , Friendster, etc. as a part of their everyday routine. Even they start their morning by checking the timeline on twitter. Some of the teenagers cannot stop tweeting, posting and tagging just for a day. They feel like their daily life routine is incomplete if they are not adopting these new interaction spaces. Social

network are one of the most popular topics being talked about by the teenagers. Various types of features introduced by the social networks kept attracting the teenagers to use the sites constantly. Social network is like a demon that possessing teenagers soul and controlling their mind from neglecting this virtual network.

Could we imagine with the situations mentioned above, how many hours in a day the teenagers spend on this virtual sites? How many times they check their facebook or twitter occasionally? We can see that the social network potentially become a huge time-waster for the teenagers. This situation become worse if the teenagers who are mainly a student, forgetting their homework and sitting still in front of their computer, busy making friend on social network. Social networking sites not only become an activity to be spent during leisure, but eventually become a big event in teenagers schedule!

Objectives

One of the purposes of this research is to investigate the role of social networking technologies as a social interact tool in teenagers life. With this aim, we can see how huge the social networks give impact in building social relations among people. Besides, this study seeks to find out the dependence of social network among teenagers, so we manage to see are teenagers rely too much on this way communicating on the internet despite the lack of face-to-face interaction. I t also focuses on analyzing the effect of virtual interpersonal relationships on the real world. This objectives can show us whether social networks really significant in physical world relationships or it just decreases teenagers potential to be more outstanding in social skills.

Terms Social network a type of virtual communication that allows people to connect with each other. Teenagers a person aged from 13 to 19 years Perception the process, act, or faculty of perceiving.

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