Who is the Right Person:How Does Social Media Influence Young People's Views on Mate Selection?
Youth are the active role in social media,which is the main channel for them to acquire informa-tion,exerts an impact on their cognition,attitude,and behavior while facilitating their daily lives.Mate selec-tion is an essential part of life for young people.The influence of social media on young people's views on mate selection is becoming increasingly prominent.This paper studies the possible influence paths of social media for young people's views on mate selection,and its specific mechanisms.Through in-depth inter-views with 29 young users,it is found that there are four paths for social media influencing young people's mate selection views at middle level,namely understanding,orientation,expression,and entertainment.At the micro level,there are two different using behaviors of social media:single social media platform usage and cross social media platform usage.The information flow contents young users acquire through the plat-form are different,and the relevance to their own ideas,interests,and hobbies are different,making the simulated environment constructed by social media generate five different perceptions for users,which have different impacts on their views on mate selection.In this process,there is an information cocoon effect of social media which,however,only appears when the relevant conditions are met to a certain extent,thus in turn affecting young people's views on mate selection.
social mediayouth groupviews on mate selectionmedia system dependency theoryinfor-mation cocoon
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