FACE TO FACE COMMUNICATION VS COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION IN RELATION TO IDENTITY DISTRESS

Abstract

In present times the escalating obsession of social media has grown, it has become a daily ritual, that its users cannot seem to separate between the real world and the virtual one.it appears that this confusion between what is real and what is not may effect deeply in their identity development and construction especially among teens. As early scholars such as Goffman s and Hecht s works ,researchers did show interest in the relationship between