Social Networks and Virtual Identity: A Study in Theories

Abstract

This study addresses the concept of a society that is no longer bound to a temporal or spatial context, but to the principle of joint activities, which has helped modern communication technologies to produce virtual societies, which have allowed the individual to compensate and reproduce a real identity with multiple identities. This exploratory study examined the nature of the Charter, which seemed to exist between the factual identity and the virtual identity. By touching on the connotations and specificities of social networks and the nature of their interconnection and their influences on identity, this study also aims to conceive the modalities of formation and construction of virtual identity and how these virtual worlds have abandoned their influential theories on the personality of the individual in general and the group of young people in particular, and how to steal his realistic world, which is no longer sufficient for dialogue, interaction and relationship building. Therefore, in her study, the researcher adopted the descriptive analytical program to address the dimensions of identity and compare it to the most important theories produced by virtual reality, using the latest statistics that demonstrate the degree of connection to social networks among Moroccan youth.