TABLE 2.

Themes and Representative Quotes.

Theme	Technology Modality	Exemplary Quote
Distraction	Social media	“I see what my friends and family are doing that I don’t get to see a lot, and I usually find some humorous stuff, and, “Oh hey, this is happening.”… So, if I’m having a bad day, I could find some good things.”
	Video game	“I’d say going online is pretty satisfying, because I don’t really have … Like, playing an online game, I usually don’t have to think too hard.”
Maintaining existing peer support	Social media	“And if I’ve posted updates on Facebook, there are people … I have friends, mostly all from high school … Yeah, so there are just a lot of people that I’ve known for many years I haven’t been close to necessarily that comment unbelievably sweet and uplifting comments.”
	Video game	“It’s kind of weird to say, but when I go home or when I’m home, I talk with people on my game, and like they know my situation. I kind of just play games with them and talk to them about like where I am stuck. I guess that helps a lot cause it like takes my mind off things. Yeah, that did help a lot actually.”
	Text messaging	“And I have also kept in touch with my best guy friend through high school, but we haven’t been able to visit a lot closely, but he’s always been there via phone and text, whatever, even though he was in Louisiana during college and stuff. If I ever needed any help or just wanted to update him on what was going on, he was always there.”
Connecting with peers with cancer	Social media	“She texted me out of the blue when I was going through I think like course two or something… And she had gotten in contact with me through one of my friends who like shared a photo of me on her Facebook… I guess you know [friend’s name] the girl who had cancer, she saw it and texted the girl, “Hey like can you give me her contact info? Like I’d love to just text her and like you know be there for her.” So my friend gave her the phone number and [friend’s name] texted me one night and she was like, “We should meet up and like talk about all this stuff.”
	Text messaging	“You meet someone who is your age and is going through the same thing and is away from home. She’s from [another state], and meeting her was extremely uplifting… So we text everyday. Sometimes she’s here, so we’ll see each other in the hall. But yeah, we talk and we vent and we are excited about good news.”
Negative consequences	Social media	“The whole social media aspect kind of makes it harder. Cause, while its like entertaining and helpful for me to pass the time, its hard to see you know people just living their lives and you know going to bars and being able to do normal things.”