Pathology of social networks and mobile software in the Iranian family (with emphasis on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats)

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 This article aims at identifying the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities of threatening social networks and mobile messaging software in the Iranian family and determining the strategies for using these networks for the Iranian family. The method of this research is the Strategic Analysis Method (SWOT). The statistical community consists of three groups of faculty members and academic experts, executives and professional users. The sample size is 40 and the sampling method is snowball. Data collection technique was used for documentary and library study and focal interviews.The most important strength of these networks and mobile software is increasing the power of analyzing and reinforcing the family members' critical attitude and the most important weakness of the family's lack of attention to observing the safety principles in the membership of networks and groups. The most important opportunity to establish and set up native networks is to focus on supporting healthy families and the most useful and most entertaining entertainment. The threat of lifestyle changes and the promotion of family separation as the most important social institution in Islamic and Iranian culture. The most important strategies are to take advantage of the quantitative and qualitative capacity of Iranian users to produce religious, cultural and moral content on both the domestic and foreign levels within the family, the convergence of governmental and nongovernmental organizations in increasing the media and information literacy of the family to attend Social network
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