A Study on the Relationship between Using Facebook Social Network and the Sense of Cultural and Social Security (Case Study: Youth of Tabriz City)

Security is one of the most fundamental human needs and is considered as the primary and necessary condition for progress and development of civilized societies. Various researches have indicated that new information and communication technologies such as virtual social networks are factors affecting the sense of cultural and social security. Accordingly, the main research question is what are the effects of using the Facebook social network on the youth's sense of cultural and social security? The present study was conducted using a researcher-made questionnaire with a sample size consisting of 384 participants selected from among the youth of Tabriz city who were Facebook users in 2016.They were selected via the convenience and voluntary sampling method. The research findings indicate that there is a significant indirect correlation between the duration of membership in Facebook, the rate of using Facebook, the type of use of Facebook, and the actual perception of the content of Facebook with the users’sense of social and cultural security in such a way that the increase in the duration membership, the rate of use, type of use, the considering the content of Facebook actual reduces their degree of sense of cultural and social security. Independent variables included in the research regression model can explain 12% of variations in the user's sense of social security and 16% of variations in their sense of cultural of security.