Student Lifestyles in the Social Media Context

Social communication studies show an increasing interest for the phenomenon of Social Media. The occurrence of Social Media has its roots in what Manuel Castells calls the network society". Seen as a new area of human interaction, as the virtual extension of contemporary, society, Social Media has become a ubiquitous mechanism in the construction of social reality The most,. "affected" category is the young people. For this study we have chosen the students to be our target population because of their easier access to the computer-mediated reality that the university offers to them. The aim of the study is to identify how Social Media changes the student lifestyle. The need to achieve this topic is justified by the co-presence of three elements: I. the unlimited possibilities of the development of vat-lobs forms of Social Media worldwide: 2. the exponential growth rate of the number of everyday users: 3. the lack of a cleat; research-based image of the Social Media phenomenon and its degree of usage within Romanian student campuses. A questionnaire survey used in two Romanian universities enabled a quantitative picture of the Social Media phenomenon and produced sustainable arguments for other future researches.