The interaction and digital coexistence of students in social networks

Social networks have become the key tool for communication and interaction among teenagers that has led to a new digital coexistence. In this new coexistence noxious attitudes have been detected that generate in the networks a space of vulnerability for some and, in turn, a refuge for others in which aggressive, disruptive and criminal attitudes are hidden. Given these types of attitudes that students suffer we analyze the ability of students to detect these attitudes in social networks. To do this, we have analyzed the interactions in the social networks of students (N 1073) with an age range between (9-18 years). The results show that the social networks in which they recognize harmful attitude are on Instagram, WhatsApp and YouTube. What coincides with the social networks in which this coexistence takes place on a regular basis. According to the results age groups and gender. The female gender would be the one that detects more cases of cyberbullying in the social network of Instagram compared to the male gender that would be what would detect more cases of cyberbullying on YouTube and both genders by WhatsApp. If we add to these data those that have resulted in this study regarding age, it is worrying that those of age range under 9 years of age are immersed in social networks, becoming the most vulnerable in being able to suffer any type of aggression or harmful attitude. In conclusion, reflect students connect to social networks from an early age with an increasing connection time and in most cases without parental control. Therefore, they become a vulnerable group that can suffer cyberbullying.