Social Networking Experiences of University Students on Facebook

Mohamed Musthafa. K

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

Abstract

Study the social networking experience of university students in India. The objective of the study was to find out the use of Facebook (FB) by the students of Aligarh Muslim University, India and to explore how and why they use FB. Time spent on FB and satisfaction levels of students have been investigated. An attempt has been done to determine the problems faced to use SNS. A questionnaire with open and close ended questions was administered among 100 students randomly. The response rate was 86 percent. Statistical tools have been used to analyze the data. The result shows that female use FB than male students. Majority of the students (60.40%) use FB daily and 41.68 % spend less than one hour. Reading others’ posts (88.37%) and chatting with friends (56.11%) are the major activity on FB. Nobody use FB to interact with teachers. Reasons for using FB is the students want to be a part of a group or community (65.11%) and to network or meet new people (55.81 %).  Almost all students (86.04%) are satisfied with FB. Students do not like to use internet for a long time and lack of enough time to use SNS are the main problems in using SNS. Lack of training and lack of privacy and security are also inhibiting the students in suing SNS. 

This paper is presented in The National Seminar on Knowledge Mangement: Issues and Challenges held at INMANTEC Gaziabad, on 24 Sept, 2011