The Effect Of Social Networking Sites On The Relationships Between College Students

Nowadays, a batch of onymous Social Networking Sites, taking the Xianei.com for example, is booming, which becomes the trends of Internet age. The real world's social relationships are moved into the Internet. This not only gets rid of the anonymity and vanity, but also facilitates to enlarge people's relationships in real life.College students, as the aim group who accept network things faster than others, on whom the SNS has the greatest influence. This paper chose Xiaonei.com as an object, through methods of documentary analysis and questionnaire, trying find out the relations between SNS and human relationships.This paper makes a documentary analysis and finds out that there are few researches on relationships, college students' relationships or cyberspace relationships. The past researches are on anonymity Internet instead of ominous SNS. At the same time, they supply some research methods for this paper.This paper makes a questionnaire, and the results of the research are as follows:(1) Xiaonei.com is so popular among college students that numerous people consider it as a good way to find out and contact with classmates.(2) The research finds that younger college students are much easier to accept and trust Xiaonei.com. Besides, Xiaonei.com provides more opportunities to intercourse with each other for college students who live in the same area.(3) Sex, character and inclination and preference of making friends have direct influence on students during their intercourse in cyberspace. However, there is a slight difference between SNS and real life.(4) Although majority disregards that virtual intercourse affect real intercourse in daily life, there is a tendency that the SNS registers are more lonely than those non-registers. Especially, those users who addict to SNS and those who fallen into the habit of searching for other's information rather than release their information are much easier falling into loneliness and can't get rid of it.Concerning the operation and use of Social Networking Sites, this paper gives out three suggestions:First, to improve the consciousness and ability to protect personal information. Secondly, to use Social Networking Sites with moderation to reduce its bad influences in real life.Thirdly, to know the difference of the attitude on making friends attitudes between male and female, to improve the functions of the websites, and to satisfy the different needs among different groups.