The impact of information and communication platforms on the behavior of modern adolescents

Digital technologies have become an integral part of the lives of modern teenagers. In addition to entertainment functions, communication applications are able to modernize the educational process and create prerequisites for the formation of a full-fledged personality of a teenager who adequately assesses the risks of using information and communication technologies and who is able to extract positive experiences to form a successful career in the future. The introduction of information and communication platforms helped to identify the characteristics of social behavior among adolescents. Depending on the intensity of the use of electronic services, there is a change in the behavior of older students. It is advisable to consider the Internet communication environment as a means of improving communication skills and developing compensatory functions of socialization. The purpose of the article is to identify the relationship between the intensity of use of information and communication platforms and the characteristics of the actual social behavior of adolescents. Diagnostics of the level of demonstrativeness by O.S. Posypanova; questionnaire of social desirability by D. Crown, D. Marlowe; testing "Who am I?" by M. Kuhn, modified by T. V. Rumyantseva, questionnaire to identify the locus of control by J. Rotter, a questionnaire to identify behavioral reactions (the author's method) were used in the research. To diagnose the external characteristics of behavior an interview of the users was conducted. In the course of the study, it turned out that teenagers with a low level of use of communication applications are aimed at using the application for educational purposes. Teenagers with an average intensity of application use share their personal successes and achievements, as well as communicate on educational topics to receive and transmit information. High activity in the application among teenagers leads to the formation of an extensive circle of friends, the administration of groups and active participation in various educational activities in order to present themselves in a favorable perspective. The more intensively teenagers use an electronic application, the more pronounced demonstrative behavior is manifested, social desirability is intensified, behavioral reactions are more pronounced, and there is also a shift in the locus of control towards the external. As the presence of interactive communication platforms grows, the healthy use of information resources should be encouraged.