Motives for Using the Ome Tv Application among Teenagers to Make Friends with Strangers

Social media is an online platform that changes the way one individual interacts with another individual, which was initially done in one direction, turning into an interactive dialogue through website-based technology, one example of which is Ome Tv. The aim of this research is to analyze the use of the Ome Tv application among teenagers in making friends with foreigners according to affective theory. This research uses descriptive methods and a qualitative approach and applies a purposive sampling method. The research subjects were 5 informants using the Ome Tv application from within and outside the country, one of whom was from Malaysia. The research results of the eight most dominant motives are reduction motives, meaning that informants use Ome Tv as mere entertainment which they emphasize in communicating to fill their free time by telling stories freely to one of the Ome Tv users they don't know.