THE ROLE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG YOUNG POPULATION IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES
THE ROLE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG YOUNG POPULATION IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES

Summary/Abstract: Young population in the twenty-first century is a generation with the best technical and technological conditions for education, personal development and success. Completely aware of the digital technologies, this generation accepts the innovations and the new developments, trying to keep pace with the trends. They are flexible and fully opened to the future horizons. The Internet can be massively found into all spheres of life. However, do young people know how to use properly the benefits of the new social media? Is the awareness of young people at a sufficiently high level for them to use digital tools, to engage themselves in solving the social problems that affect them? Are young people sufficiently educated and involved in the processes of electronic engagement? There are many national youth studies which lead to the conclusion that it is necessary to improve key competences and skills of young people out of their everyday educational environment. The reason for this is to enable better usage of their potential and all of the benefits of technologies, as well as to raise awareness among them to use the advantages of advanced new technologies for involvement in solving social issues that have an influence on them. It is necessary to enhance the development of young people through a combination of knowledge, skills and technologies that will motivate them to upgrade and promote themselves, and also to exploit suitably the potential and the benefits of new technologies and social media.

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