1.

Profiling Cyberactive Youth

1.1.Their Age and Educational Background Arts/Science
1.2.Married or not
1.3.Social Background
1.4.Family Background
1.5.Class Character
1.6.Parents Education
1.7.Parents Occupation
2. Social Media Usage
2.1.Time, duration, frequency and location of usage
2.2.Type of user- wanderer, purposive, proactive, reactive,
2.3.Nature of usage Personal (about me only), familial (about my kids, hubby
parents), Organizational, political (about a movement or activism)
2.4.Device Context
2.5.Initiation into social media on their own, forced and persuaded by others,
could be out of it
2.6.Life span as homo social networkapians how long they have been on social
media
2.7.Orientation to social media instant communication, synchronic, realtime
connecting, connecting media, useful educationally, entertaining,
informative, informing , opinion builder, transforming, dangerous
2.8.Content of Posting texts, images, messages, forwarding, videos and audios,
clickers (of likes)
2.9.Me vs Us (individual or role-performer = about me as an individual vs. about
me as daughter, mother, wife etc)
2.10.
SMN Engagement
2.10.1.
Modes I go to social media when I feel like making an opinion,
when I feel like telling what is happening to me, when good things
happen to me and I want to share it.
2.10.2.
I am in SMN because it is the in thing, to be visible, to tell who
I am
2.11.
Gatekeeping Strategies and profile of my connection: only my friends
open to strangers, only strangers, only relatives, only colleagues,
professional peers, celebrities
2.12.
Representativeness of SMN: Absolute and full, selective, inverted (e.g.,
people think I am funny but I want to present myself as very serious person?,
one dimensional, transparent, carefully designer identity and constructed,
public/private life and tastes
2.13.
Off-Line on-line contiguity
2.14.
Life Before-after SMN
2.15.
Changing Notions
2.15.1.
What is social life? Does it include SMN? What does a friend
mean in the era of SMN?
2.16.
SMN and personhood/character
2.16.1.
Does what kind of a person you are is determined by how you
conduct yourself in SMN sites?

Online Content
Conformist to continue to demonstrate and present the same person we see in
realife Cyberself = real self = Social Self
Innovator - to present oneself in real life life way but with slight innovation Cyberself +/- Real Self
Rebel Cyberself > Social Self
Transgressor - Cyberself > Real Self+ social self
Self Orientation About me and myself
Role Orientation - Me as mother/daughter etc
Collective about us my family, my relatives
Who am I
What I do
What I seek
Cyber-Space as contiguous to Social Space to do things I do in my social space
seamlessly running between these two spaces - from social to space to cyber space
and vice versa the boundaries of the
cyberspace and social space is conterminous my sphere of operation in real life is
the same as the cybelife I have and interact with same set of friends/relatives in
SMN as I have in real life.
Cyber-Space as extension of Social Space to do things more than what I do my real
life, but without violating social norms to extend my real life connections,
geographically and experientially go beyond my social zones - having friends and
experiences beyond my real life network of relationship - my sphere of operation in
real life is less than the cyberlife (I have more online friends than I have in real life)
Cyber-Space as Alternative to Social Space - to do things I do not do in my real life,
but within accepted level without violating social norms to reach
geographically and experientially those zones that are what acceptable for
patriarchy but not possible within the given life circumstances - having friends and
experiences that are acceptable for patriarchy but not possible within the given life
circumstances - my sphere of operation in cyber life is more extensive than the
social life (I have online friends different from my real life scope but again within
what is acceptable for patriarchy but not possible within the given life
circumstances)

Cyber-Space in contrast to Social Space - to do things I could not do in my real

life, to reach geographically and experientially beyond what is acceptable for
patriarchy and not possible within the given life circumstances - having friends and
experiences above and beyond what is acceptable for patriarchy and not possible
within the given life circumstances - my sphere of operation in cyber life is more
expansive than the social life (I have online friends different from my real life scope
beyond what is acceptable for patriarchy and not possible within the given life
circumstances)

Cyber-Space as violator of Social Space - to do things that are anti and counterpatriarchal to reach geographically and experientially to such zones and limits
that are banned for a woman because it is anti and counter- patriarchal and not
permitted at all within the given life circumstances - having friends and experiences
that are patriarchy subverting and threatening - my sphere of operation in cyber life
is violative of the social life (I have online friends and my photos and text messages
are such that they question and violate patriarchal impositions.