Personal Loneliness Sns Type Site Seeking The Comfort Of Motivation Research

Loneliness has become a universal phenomenon in society, where people feel increasingly social alienation under a dramatically changing environment due to the rapid development of modern technology. In this trend of loneliness, people may have to face a series of transitions in life, which disintegrates their old social bands in school and forces them to reorganize a new social relationship. On the other hand, while we spend less time staying with our families and friends, we may undergo the lonely feelings. In summary, this distinct condition make it worthy to survey the way to cope with loneliness.This research object is a case study of Renren, the most representative website in Social Network Service (SNS). This study uses two approaches:firstly applying questionnaires to select those who undergo the lonely feelings, and then employing in-depth interviews with these selected candidates to find out the property of their loneliness and the ways they coping with it. The result shows that:their choices in life's turning points and their values of friendship mainly influence in them, despite of individual differences; The gender role influences causes of loneliness and ways they cope with it. They gender role affects peoples' interactions with their friends; People may virtually use Renren to cope with loneliness. They try to obtain social interaction and companion in here, and thus vent their feelings.