Disadvantages And Effect Of Social Media On Students

Synopsis Thesis

The Effects of Social Media on College and University Students

Introduction

Social media is a form of electronic communication which facilitates interaction based on certain interests and characteristics. Social media are media for social interactions, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Thousands of people join social media networking sites to keep in touch with their friends and family members, According to Boyd and Ellison "people use social media sites such as Face book, Twitter, MySpace to create and sustain relationship with others"(1). Moreover, social networking sites are created to allow individual to communicate with others who share similar interests, information and friends.

Social networking is the connection of friends or family together which allow people to communicate easily. With social networking sites people can have a long chain of friends they can chat or share information with. Mostly students devote more attention to social media than they do to their studies. Students’ addictiveness to social network, students’ frequency of exposure to social network, social media network that the students are more exposed to and the influence of social media as a medium of interaction between students has been part of discussion in recent times and which have imparted on their academic performance. This synopsis thesis addresses the issue of the effectiveness of using social networking. Thus, the objective of this research is to explore the advantages and disadvantages of students’ use of social networking for

Participants consisted of undergraduate students at different universities. My inclusion criteria were male and female undergraduate students. The starting age for participants’ was18, but there is no end age because not everyone who is in undergraduate course is the same age.

3. Sampling

The target population for my research was defined as the students who form the major chunk of users of different social networking sites and provide good responses. Even the understanding of the questionnaire was easy to them as they were familiar with the sites and quite clear about the reasons they use it for and the various problems that they face.

4. Data Collection

The research data collected through the questionnaire. A total of 20 copies of the questionnaire and the entire questionnaire were well structured and the responses were sought from the respondents. Two methods of questioning were used for the data collection: firstly I collected data by personal questioning. I met different of students of Linnaeus University and asked questions about social media. Secondly, I was e-mailed the questionnaire to different students who filled it and then mailed it back to me. Therefore, the following research questions were