Self and Social Media: Cyberpsychology Assignment - University Name

This assignment is a self-analysis of the student's social media usage, exploring its impact on their identity and behavior, based on a Cyberpsychology course. The student provides responses to a series of questions over several weeks, covering topics such as their total scores on social integration and emotional connection subscales, their agreement with the results, the social media platforms they use, and the purposes for which they use each platform. The student details the quality and content of their social media use, the types of content they share, and the frequency and audience for their posts. The analysis delves into how social media relates to their self-view, the aspects that have shaped their identity, and desired changes to their social media use, as well as reflections on how their perspectives have evolved throughout the course. The assignment includes references to academic sources to support the student's analysis.

Running Head: SOCIAL MEDIA RELATED TO CYBER PSYCOLOGY
SOCIAL MEDIA RELATED TO CYBER PSYCOLOGY
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Week 4
1. What were your total scores for each subscale?
TOTAL SCORE TIME 2 Social Integration subscale: __23_______
TOTAL SCORE TIME 2 Emotional Connection subscale: _23________
2. Reflect on who you are based on the results, do you agree or not?
I love interacting with my friends through social media as it is a great platform through
which peoples get the opportunity to interact with each other. Social media platform plays an
vital role in order to maintaining social relationship and I also enjoy checking my social media
accounts.
SURVEY
1. I feel disconnected from friends when I have not logged into social media
1 2 3 4 5 6
Strongly
disagree
Strongly
agree
2. I would like it if everyone used social media to communicate
1 2 3 4 5 6
Strongly
disagree
Strongly
agree

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3. I would be disappointed if I could not use social media at all
1 2 3 4 5 6
Strongly
disagree
Strongly
agree
4. I get upset when I can’t log on to social media
1 2 3 4 5 6
Strongly
disagree
Strongly
agree
5. I prefer to communicate with others mainly through social media
1 2 3 4 5 6
Strongly
disagree
Strongly
agree
6. Social networking plays an important role in my social relationships
1 2 3 4 5 6
Strongly
disagree
Strongly
agree
7. I enjoy checking my social media account(s)

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1 2 3 4 5 6
Strongly
disagree
Strongly
agree
8. I don’t like to use social media
1 2 3 4 5 6
Strongly
disagree
Strongly
agree
9. Using social media is part of my everyday routine
1 2 3 4 5 6
Strongly
disagree
Strongly
agree
10. I respond to content that others share through social media
1 2 3 4 5 6
Strongly
disagree
Strongly
agree
Week 5
3. What social media platforms do you use?

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Mostly I use Facebook as the social media. I also use YouTube, Whatsapp, WeChat, and
Instragram as well.
4. For what purpose do you use each platform?
I use Facebook to interact and communicate with friend. I also use Facebook for making
new friends and also to upload photos as well as videos.
Youtube is a kind a social media platform where we can watch interesting videos and it also
provides the user to upload their own videos and earn money out of it.
Whatsapp helps me to share videos and documents and also communicate with friends.
Instragram is a photo- sharing app. With the help of Instragram I upload pictures and it also
provide the feature of adding filters which makes the images more attractive (Allcott &
Gentzkow, 2017).
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5. How would you characterize the quality and content of your social media use?
1. Social media helps in interact with my reader.
2. Helps in creating original contents.
3. Makes the promotions actionable.
6. What kinds of things do you share?
I use social media to review products or to show how to construct product. I also share
news items, photos and videos. I also share images, info graphics, podcasts and screencasts
(Perrin, 2015).

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7. How often and with whom?
I share photos and videos with my class mates, family members and with my relatives as
well. Usually I spend two hours maximum in social media. It acts as a source of relaxation
and a medium to acquire knowledge as well (Yin et al., 2015).
8. Why do you feel you need to share certain information?
Sharing of certain necessary information related to politics, social development, sports
and military affairs provides a great help to the people, as it makes them aware about certain
important activities or situation which they are not aware about (Sajid, 2016).
Week 9
9. How does your social media use relate to how you view yourself?
Social media has helped me a lot in developing my personality. It also helped me to gather
information and knowledge related to certain environmental, social and political factors. With
the help of social media I was able to connect with new friends, interact with relatives and it
makes me feel that I am connected with the whole world.
10. What aspects do you think have contributed to your identity and sense of self, and why?
Social media has helped me a lot in developing my personality. It also helped me to gather
information and knowledge related to certain environmental, social and political factors. With
the help of social media I was able to connect with new friends, interact with relatives and it
makes me feel that I am connected with the whole world.

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Week 12
11. What changes do you want to make (or have you made) to your social media use? Why?
Changes should be made rated to data privacy. Using the social media platform many people
share their private and confidential information with their friends and relative but with
increase in data privacy social media access is in danger. Improvement should be made
related to data privacy in order to keep personal information secure and safe.
Week 13
12. Have you results changed at all since the beginning of term?
I have encountered a huge improvement in my result since the beginning of the term.
13. Do you feel that you answered differently this time as a result of what you have learned
in this course, why or why not?
Yes, I think I have answered in a different manner as I have followed a unique approach which is
completely different from the previous courses that I have participated in.
14. Do you think you have changed as an individual as a result of taking this course?
Doing this course has helped me a lot to develop my personality. I have learned about the
advantages and disadvantages of social media. The course helped me to gather necessary
information which will provide a great help to me in my future courses and assignments.

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References
Allcott, H., & Gentzkow, M. (2017). Social media and fake news in the 2016 election. Journal
of economic perspectives, 31(2), 211-36.
Perrin, A. (2015). Social media usage: 2005-2015.
Sajid, S. I. (2016). Social media and its role in marketing.
Yin, J., Karimi, S., Lampert, A., Cameron, M., Robinson, B., & Power, R. (2015, June). Using
social media to enhance emergency situation awareness. In Twenty-Fourth
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.