Social Media Relationship: A Qualitative Study

SOCIAL MEDIA RELATIONSHIP: A QUALITATIVE STUDY
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Abstract:
This study mainly covered the analysis part of collected interview data. In this study, the
collected data has been gathered based on social media, where the participant has stated
his/her personal opinion. Towards the continuation of this study, positivism philosophy has
been chosen for analysing the collected interview data. The chosen philosophy is chosen as
the collected data is based practical scenario. Apart from this, deductive based approach has
been used to squeeze the actual gist from collected data. Here, different scenario of using
social media has presented; means pros and cons both are exist for using social media. During
the analysis of collected information it has been found that many users use fake data and that
is the reason innocent users are being cheated by them. Therefore, service provider has
increased the security level for the users. However, the main motto of using social media is to
communicate with friends.
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Table of Contents
Research questions:....................................................................................................................4
Method of analysis:....................................................................................................................4
Results and findings:..................................................................................................................6
Discussion:.................................................................................................................................9
Reference list:...........................................................................................................................10
Appendix: Transcript in support of thematic analysis.............................................................12
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Research questions:
This study mainly focuses on the behavioural impact of social media and along with its
importance to make a social relationship. Towards the continuation of this study, the
researcher has prepared a set of questionnaire containing different areas like importance of
social media, in context of how long users use the social media and how the social media
helps to build social relationship. On the other hand, there are security issues and other pros
and cons of social media, which have been consisted with questionnaire. In this case,
necessary answers have been provided by the participants. The core areas of questionnaire are
provided below:
a) Importance of social media
b) Role of social media in life
c) Frequency of use of social media
d) Relationships from social media
e) Securities and insecurities in social media
f) The comparison between virtual relationship and physical relationship
g) Need of social media
h) Different types of social media
i) Use of social media as users identity
Method of analysis:
Research philosophy (positivism):
There are several methods of qualitative analysis like positivism, interpretive, realism,
descriptive method etcetera. Towards the continuation of this study, Positivism philosophy
has been chosen as the collected interview data are based on real situation and problems
(Smith, 2015). On the other hand, positivism philosophy would be helpful to the learner to
understand the critical factors in discussion. Throughout the continuation of this study, the
specialist will need on ponder those figures also Realities related the investigation topic,
which will resolve on simple those completion of the study (Taylor, Bogdan & DeVault,
2015). Moreover, the chosen positivism philosophy would helpful to relate relevant theories
to the analysis part and that would necessary for theoretical justification of the analysis.
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