Redes sociais e sociabilidade: práticas e percepções acerca dos usos do facebook no lazer

The use of social networks, especially Facebook (FB), has allowed its users to make significant interactions in the virtual field. In this research, this context was examined through the application of structured interviews to residents of the central region of Montes Claros, a city which is the economic and cultural center in the north of Minas Gerais. This initiative sought to outline, from the subjects researched, an uptake of FB as a possibility of using leisure time, searching an understanding of the results of this process in the construction/consolidation of sociabilities, problematizing the transformations of the aims of leisure towards those experienced virtually. The data point to the "strength" that the FB has reached in the minting of identities and representations, building clues about the processes of constitution of the contemporary subject in these spaces of virtual sociability, and precisely because of this, so real.