SOCIAL NETWORKS: COMPENSATION FOR THE NEEDS OF MODERN YOUTH
The purpose of the study is to identify compensation for the needs of modern youth in the conditions of using virtual reality. The author highlights the needs of students in communication, leisure, understanding and respect, self-affirmation, education, educational and professional activities, work, income generation, the need for identification and privacy. The scientific novelty consists in the empirical analysis of scientific sources on this topic, accounts and communities in social networks, videos and posts in a virtual environment; conducting a questionnaire with subsequent processing of the results of young people aged 17 to 20 years. As a result, the following have been identified as priorities: compensation for the need for communication, leisure, education and educational and professional activities. The majority of survey participants do not receive compensation for the need for work, income generation, self-affirmation, understanding and respect through the use of social networks. The increasing importance of educational communication in virtual networks and the role of the teacher in it, which differs from the traditional form of the educational process, is substantiated. In the electronic environment, there is an increase in the level of professional competencies of a teacher; providing them with support, correction and direction of students' activities, applying the latest developments in the field of virtual educational environment to improve the level of training of young specialists.