成年初显期青年微信朋友圈的中辍行为探究

The Discontinuous Use of WeChat Circle of Friends of Emerging Adulthood

社交媒体已渗透进人们日常生活中。以往研究大多聚焦于用户如何采纳、使用某一社交平台,对特定用户群体"不使用"某种社交媒体的情况关注较少。基于对微信朋友圈消极使用现象探究,发现用户出于自我表达的观众可及性、互动可能性的"想象",以及持续性印象维持压力的共同作用下,表达前容易反复自我审视产生社交疲惫感,进而选择退出;大多中辍后倾向于转移到同龄群体为主的强关系聚集的社交媒体,享受小范围观众舞台的安全感;看似消极的中辍行为本身成为他们寻求自我认同、提升社交质量、蜕变为理想成人的路径,具有自我同一性确认的探索意义。中辍行为赋予每个社交媒体以不同距离感知,帮助用户重新确认自我的主体性地位,通过有意识发展深入交往关系,提升情感反馈质量,借助驯化技术和掌控社交边界的感知来对抗不确定性的风险压力。

Social media has penetrated into people’s daily life in an all-round way.Previous studies mostly focused on how users adopt and use a social platform,but paid less attention to the situation that specific user groups“do not use”a social media.Based on the semi-structured interviews with many young adults,this study explores the negative use of WeChat circle of friends.It is found that users tend to repeatedly examine themselves before expression,resulting in social fatigue and then choose to quit because of the combined effect of audience accessibility,interaction possibility“imagination”of self-expression and persistent impression maintenance pressure.Most of discontinuous users tend to move to the social media with strong relationship gathering,which is mainly composed of peer groups,and enjoy the security of small audience stage.The seemingly negative discontinuous use itself becomes the path for them to seek self-identity,improve social quality,and transform into an ideal adult,which has the exploration significance of self-identity confirmation.