Facebook y las interacciones comunicativas de los estudiantes de bachillerato del colegio Ramón Barba

Abstract

Nowaday we live in a digital era that has an enormous weight in communication, because it allows us to gererate interaction and improve communication, although in certain cases we are not necessarily better communicated; this work allows us to know the communicative interactions generated by students, taking into account that young peolple are the most familiar with social networks and digital entertainment platforms. This work was carried out with the objetive of knowing the use of Facebook and its intervention in the communicative interactions of high school students of the Ramón Barba school in Latacunga – province of Cotopaxi, Ecuador, based on a mixed analysis applying a survey to the students that allowed knowing wich are the communicative interactions generated in Facebook and how it intervenes in their social life, and an interview through the focal group tool that allowed knowing how it influences their personal interactions. It was evidenced that the social network has a great influence on their daily and personal live, since many students maintain that it’s a nwe way to keep in constant interaction with people and at the same time they can interact not only through messages or video calls, but also through reactions to different publications by those who have an account in this social network. Teenagers are the ones who establish more social interactions through the use of the social network, thus creating digital social spaces through different communicative practices, being clear that it has replaced face-to-face communication to a certain degree