Vol. 2025 No. 4 (2025)
Articles

Adolescent peer interaction: The interplay between online and offline

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  • Caleb David,
  • Grace Jones
Caleb David
Stanford Center on Adolescence, Ventura Hall, 220 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Grace Jones
Stanford Center on Adolescence, Ventura Hall, 220 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Published 18-09-2025

Keywords

  • Adolescents,
  • Online Interaction,
  • Offline Interaction,
  • Online Friendships

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C. David and G. Jones, “Adolescent peer interaction: The interplay between online and offline”, The Young Thinker's Rev., vol. 2025, no. 4, pp. 1–9, Sep. 2025, doi: 10.62852/ytr/2025/177.

Abstract

In the internet era, online interaction based on the internet is gradually integrating with face-to-face offline interaction, becoming another crucial context for adolescents’ peer interaction and social development. This article elaborates on the significance of typical characteristics of online interaction—such as anonymity, trans-spatiotemporality, asynchronicity, and archivability—for interpersonal communication. It points out that adolescents’ online interaction primarily occurs among acquaintances, describes the formation process of adolescents’ online friendships and their influencing factors, and discusses the relationship between offline and online peer interaction. The article suggests that future research should further explore the interactive influence between offline and online interaction, investigate the unique roles of different interaction contexts and network environments, examine individual differences in online interaction, and conduct more in-depth studies on the characteristics of interpersonal relationships within specific online social platforms.

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