Use of social networking sites by the students and faculties of U.N. (auto) College, Odisha
International Journal of Development Research
Use of social networking sites by the students and faculties of U.N. (auto) College, Odisha
Received 11th December, 2017; Received in revised form 20th January, 2018; Accepted 13th February, 2018; Published online 30th March, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Priyanka Manjari Behera. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The growing popularity of Social networking sites has influenced researchers to start research about the usage pattern of these sites. This study was to investigate the use of social networking sites by the Students and faculties of U.N. (Auto) college, odisha. A structured questionnaire (both online and print) was circulated to a non random sample of 250 students and faculties. Out of 250 questionnaires, 200 filled in questionnaires were received back. The study found that a majority of the respondents are the user of social networking sites and use these sites for find information and also to keep in touch with family and friends. Face book is the most widely used social networking site among the students and faculties of U.N.(Auto) college rather than all other social networking sites. Majority of respondents use the Social Networking sites for less than one hour in a day. The main problem of using social networking sites is that non-availability of the full Internet facility.
