Facebook Social Network, Iranian Youth and Social Order: Secondary Analysis of Existing Research

Abstract

Nowadays, information and communication technologies such as virtual social networks have led to a dramatic change in the social and cultural issues.This study used secondary analysis of 21 research works over the last few years in the field of social network Facebook Ajam, the basis for analyzing the data.This paper aims to identify the extent and type of changes that marked the presence and interaction in Facebook on identity, lifestyle, youth, religious and social relationships have been established.The results indicate that Iranian youth engagement through the use of Facebook in the social and cultural changes have been exposed.Through the use of Facebook, a modern identities reflexively growth and reduce the situation of national identity, cultural and political identity has ended.Use Facebook users has increased social interactions and social capital. The Facebook lifestyles of young people to new forms of digital life grafted makes people pay more attention to your body and change the way users are leisure.Besides, Facebook reduces religious identity, religious commitment and faith is its young users .Finally, we mention the results Bhvqv a problem or a social problem in the context of national identity, cultural and political identity and religious commitment has proposed the use of virtual social networks.

Keywords

• virtual social networks
• facebook
• social order
• identity
• religiosity
• lifestyle
• social capital