The role of social networking sites in changing the value system of Algerian society A field study of a sample of social media users

Abstract

Our study seeks to shed light on the role played by social networking sites in changing the value system of Algerian society. Social networking sites greatly affect the value system of their users, by bringing about radical changes, whether at the level of the way of thinking or the social relations between the components of its society. To achieve the objectives of the study, we relied on the descriptive approach, using the electronic questionnaire tool that was distributed to the study sample of Social media users from various segments of Algerian society.

To achieve the objectives of the study, we relied on the descriptive approach, using the electronic questionnaire tool that was distributed to the study sample of social media users from different segments of Algerian society. Among the most important results reached is that social media sites have a major role in bringing about change in the value system of Algerian society, and this change is either positive by bringing new values ​​that help in the cohesion of members of society, or negative in that it promotes new models of values ​​that cause an imbalance in the components of society, and cause its disintegration.