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Why Should A Senior Citizen Be A Facebook User?

10 Reasons for A Senior Citizen’s Positive Attitude Towards Facebook

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This analytical study proposes a Decalogue for the elderly, considering that different investigations around the world, have given beneficial credit to social interaction for the Senior Citizens’ quality of life . This Decalogue seeks to shape their attitude towards Information and Communication Technologies, so that they tend to opt for the use of Facebook for social interaction with their loved ones and friends. Each one of the proposed statements of the Decalogue is based on conceptual bases, which derived from documentary research initially carried out with a heuristic perspective, and later with hermeneutical analysis. The process that was carried out in this study matches with that of an inductive approach. It was developed through qualitative research techniques, which coordinately applied in order to approach the research object in a progressive way.

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Rios Paredes, R.A. (2019). Why Should A Senior Citizen Be A Facebook User?. In: Ao, SI., Kim, H., Amouzegar, M. (eds) Transactions on Engineering Technologies. WCECS 2017. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2191-7_22

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