El uso de la red social Facebook y el carácter en los estudiantes de octavo y decimo año de la Unidad Educativa Naciones Unidas del Cantón Pelileo Provincia de Tungurahua

Abstract

The use of social networks is changing the dynamics of life. Facebook constitutes a space of communication where diverse cultures and ideologies converge. Patterns of behavior, social relations, traditions, communication, business, education, among others, a number of activities that contribute mostly to the development and growth of the individual. Virtual sociability especially captures adolescents, who, because they are in a formative stage, have been susceptible to the contents disseminated in this network. The phenomenon occurs because on Facebook they find the right route to meet their age-specific needs, including social recognition, according to the study conducted students who spend 4 to 5 hours a day on social networks, commenting, publishing photos, songs interacting with their friends and virtual friends, which generates a dependence on the internet and especially the Facebook network that having direct demotivations its character is affected, having abrupt changes in the generation including verbal and physical attacks. To collect the information described in the study, resources such as surveys were used, which transmit the incidence of the social network Facebook in the character of the eighth and tenth year students of the United Nations Educational Unit of Pelileo canton, Tungurahua province The research reflects how Facebook regulates, determines rules, creates habits and routines in adolescents, through chat, photos, comments, videos, applications, and diversity of pages. Due to changes in behavior is generated specifically in the character that later affects their social formation.