SCRS Conference Proceedings on Intelligent Systems
The Impact of Using Facebook on the Social Life of College Students
Authors: Deepali A. Mahajan and C. Namrata Mahender
Publishing Date: 25-04-2022
ISBN: 978-93-91842-08-6
Abstract
The advancement in information technology brings new ways of communication among the people, especially among the students. This changes the social life of the students as they are continuously engaged on social networking sites (SNS), they are far away from the actual relationships. This study finds the addictive behavior of the students towards Facebook, as this application is more popular among the students. We have conducted a survey for 484 students from which 107 responses collected using offline survey and 381 responses were collected by online survey. SPSS has been used for statistical analysis of the questions. For the selected questions calculated the frequencies and percentage. This gives us information about the variable Excess use and social life. Further, we found a negative correlation between the variables which means excessive use of Face-book is negatively related to Social life. Students get disconnected from society because of the excess use of Facebook.
Keywords
SNS, Facebook, Social life, Questionnaire, Social Media, Addiction.
Cite as
Deepali A. Mahajan and C. Namrata Mahender, "The Impact of Using Facebook on the Social Life of College Students", In: Raju Pal and Praveen Kumar Shukla (eds), SCRS Conference Proceedings on Intelligent Systems, SCRS, India, 2022, pp. 239-245. https://doi.org/10.52458/978-93-91842-08-6-23