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Social Media Information Dissemination and Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Love and Marriage

Yarui Bai*
Wisconsin Lutheran High School

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

With the development of contemporary Internet, electronic products are becoming more and more popular. Electronic products and the Internet have become an important channel for teenagers to access information. This has led to the fact that teenagers are getting older and younger in contact with information related to marriage and love, and the channels and contents of information sources are becoming richer and richer. A large number of love and marriage related content on the Internet appear in short videos, literary works, film and television works, etc. Teenagers are at a stage of forming values, and these diverse contents are very easy to have a positive or negative impact on them. This paper focuses on the form of the spread of love and marriage related content on the Internet and the impact of these content on teenagers. Through the analysis of papers and cases, domestic and foreign marriage related literature, film and television works and short video research and analysis. Social media has two sides, which has both positive and negative effects on teenagers. Teenagers should be more rational and objective to view the content on the Internet.

Keywords: Teenagers; marriage outlook; Internet
Published: November 10, 2026
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/2026.BJ38844
Volume: CHR Vol.126
pp. 192-197
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