For this project we interviewedKatherine Clemans, a Ph.D. student whose research focuses on adolescent social development, aggression and peer relations and John R. Chambers, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in UF's Department of Psychology.
Chambers's research focuses on O cognitive processes involved when people make social
comparative judgments (e.g., “How athletic am I compared to my peers?”). He discusses how teenagers are using social networking sites to further this behavior by comparing themselves to an even bigger audience.
Clemans states how recent research shows that teenagers who are active online are also quite active offline, and vice versa. Their activity online seems to also be in direct correlation with neglect from their parents.
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