The Impact of Teenagers’ Digital Literacy on the Use of Social Media

The biggest users of social media are teenagers. With a digital set, teenagers open up social media everywhere, so that, it is needed the strong and large controls from various parties. Besides that, in digital literacy knowledge, teenagers must understand the ability to use digital literacy because it will cause new problems by distributing content, sharing content or commenting on status. The purpose of this research is the involvement of teenagers in using social media and giving the problems when they share content, images, digital literacy, and desirable websites. Their involvement can cause big problems which can ultimately harm teenagers themselves, especially on digital literacy knowledge. This research aim is to investigate the involvement of teenagers on social media so that it can change all the order, language and content provided. The subject sample population numbered 273 teenagers aged 13-18 years. This research method is a mixed-method by using a questionnaire as a quantitative of research and observation and for qualitative using interviews conducted online or faces to face within 2-3 months to 22 teenagers. The result showed that teenagers are the subjects that use most social media, and also teenagers believe that social media helped them in solving the problem and also teenagers can change digital literacy and content to facilitate them in socializing.