Student's attitudes towards uses of Social media

Student's attitudes towards uses of Social media

Introduction

Social networking is also considered as the oldest phenomenon because; it has emerged after the existence of the society. Human beings are addicted to live in social environments because, social attributes attract human nature. Today's question is how western societies are managing their social network sites? Social networking sites have greatly influenced the use of internet in today's competitive world. It is found, that in less than five years, social networking sites have become popular among ten million internet users (Burden, C. B., and Budden, M.C, 2009).

Proposal

“Students are giving top priority to social media in their lives and, are addicted to the use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn”.

Background

Other individuals tend to use these social networking sites, at their work places and leisure time. Social networking sites are also the source of communications and interactions with each other. A question is rising by intellectuals that, how these social networking sites are affecting our daily lives. The most popular social networking sites may include Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and orkut. People are getting addicted of these social networking sites in order to interact socially, as well as for their professional purposes. Individuals are getting closer with each other and, friendships are offered through these sites (Chan, D.K.S, & Cheng, G.H, 2004).

It is important to consider the characteristics of social networking sites, in order to understand its negative impacts. Social networking sites provide features like presentation, externalization of data, new approaches to interact with individuals, bottom up activities and comfort to use (Paul Hitlin, et. al, 2004).

It has found that, any individual who sign up to these sites, have to generate a personal profile in which he has to give his personal details which, include his address, cell phones, personal photograph, work location, experiences, and other personal information. Many individuals tend to share personal photographs of families, relatives and friends and, music and videos of their family events (Rowe, K., 2005). The relation between certain individuals can also be expressed through these sites. Users interact with different ways through tagging, and in built applications such as visual shelf application in Facebook. According to the research, college students are more exposed to negative impacts of social media than adults because, of the vulnerability. According to researchers, males are getting more addicted to the use of social media and, social networking sites than females.

On considering several questions related to the addiction of youth towards social media, no specific researches have been observed but, only small scale of research is available for the addiction of young adults towards social media. According to Lenhart, 70% generation is addicted towards social media and, 65% have online profiles. A released published by the Pew Research Center on as study stating three -quarters of all millennials (having age between 18 -29) created a profile on social network site just because of self expression (Smith, ...