TITLE:
Internet and Social Networks: On the Need to Be Online
AUTHORS:
Caetano da Providência Santos Diniz, Elisângela Cláudia de Medeiros Moreira
KEYWORDS:
Internet, Technology, Online Sociability
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.5,
April
3,
2015
ABSTRACT: The
advent of internet has brought human relations into focus. The tools offered by
the technology facilitate and increase contact between people and provoke
changes in the way people relate to one another. The need to be online has
become one of the main objectives of online interaction. Internet users are
capable of creating true online relationships, showing affection, establishing
friendships or even entering into conflict. They are also capable of
maintaining an online life where communication finds a meaning in itself, and whose
only aim is to be in contact with someone else.