As redes sociais: o Facebook e YouTube, interacção, sociabilidade e auto-emprego, entre jovens na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This work focuses on: Social networks: Facebook and YouTube, interaction, sociability, and self-employment among young people in the city of Maputo. The study aims to understand the relevance of social networks in the interaction, sociability, and self-employment among young people in the city of Maputo.

In particular, it sought to identify the strategies employed by young people to interact with their audience, as well as to detail how social networks transform the way they communicate and do business in the world, with a view to describing the use of social networks as a form of interaction, sociability, and self-employment among young people in the city of Maputo.

The study shows that the forms of interaction, socialization, and self-employment on social networks vary according to the use of these platforms. We concluded that young people use Facebook and YouTube for various reasons such as: interacting with their friends and clients, earning money by promoting their products and services, and earning money through contracts that young people make with the social networks themselves by creating a page and gaining many followers and views, signing contracts with renowned companies in the city of Maputo