Social Media as a Space for Young People Activity

The aim of the article is to describe the areas in which adolescents (high school students) are active in social media. They are one of the most popular websites and the number of their users increases every year. They also create a specific virtual environment that has an impact on human development. The article tries to answer the following questions: (1) what types of activities are displayed by the surveyed youth and (2) how they can affect the traditional areas of everyday functioning. For this purpose, the author conducted research among 144 high school students in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship and based on their analysis and polemics with similar studies already present in the literature, answer the research questions posed. In addition to the questionnaire constructed for the purposes of the study, the author used the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES) to be able to compare the self-image of the respondents with their activity on social networking sites. Such a correlation was found only in the case of some issues.