Perception and use of social networking sites among university students

Introduction:

     Computer Assisted language learning does not only mean, using computers to teach another language. In fact, it includes also using the internet web sites. These web sites can provide unlimited data for the students. Recently, these web sites have developed to be used not only by computers but also by smart phones. And now people call them social networking technology.

The aim of the study:

Ø The goal of this study is to examine the  understanding and use of social networking among university students in Kuwait.

ØStudy their negative and positive impacts.  

The methodology:

Subjects:

oParticipant are Kuwaiti students from different universities.

Methodology:

oThe methodology here is descriptive.

o Five section questionnaire distributed among the students. Each section focuses on certain goal.

oThe first section consisted of demographic data including gender, marital status, work and educational status. The second section explored the students’ involvement in SNS including their privacy settings and network connections. The third section discussed the frequency of using SNS for viewing and posting information. The fourth section was to examine the impacts of social media; students were allowed to choose more than one positive and negative impact. The fifth section was to study the perception of students in regard to the type of information that interests them the most.

The Findings:

-Vast majority of the students are using social media.

-The positive impact is better social life.

-The negative ones are

a)Despising work and school.

b)The time wasted.

Conclusion:

     The author has concluded that students need to be trained on using social media for learning purposes.

My conclusion:

     According to the statistics in this study, I believe that using social networking web sites for the educational process will be come an easy task. Because a lot of the students are already familiar with using social media. 

References:

•Hamade, S. N. (2013) Perception and use of social networking sites among university students. Library Review, 62(6/7), 388 – 397. DOI 10.1108/LR-12-2012-0131

                                                       By: Jood-San