The use of social media among second cycle students of Techiman North district in the Bono East Region of Ghana

Abstract

There are huge number of individuals on the web who are interested in gathering information about others and meet other individuals, to assemble, share data and encounters on many areas and topics. Because of this, hundreds of social networking sites have been made, and they have pulled in many clients in the few short years that interpersonal interaction has turned into a marvel. The key elements of the social media websites are fundamentally the same, yet each site attracts variety of clients in a wide range of ways. Many of the social networking websites aim at gathering huge public, while others draw in individuals based on race, sexual inclinations, religion, or nationality. The social media websites are additionally different in the ways in which they appear and join new data and specialized devices, like portable access, blogging, photograph, and video sharing. The main aim of this study was to analyze and evaluate the various impacts of social media on second cycle students of Techiman North, this research sampled 500 population out of an estimated total student’s population of 6960 which included both males and females selected from across all programmes comprising of General Science, General Arts, virtual Arts, Agriculture and Home Economics from year one to year three, questionnaires and observations were used for data collection. The research also in its findings discovered that second cycle students of Techiman North used Social media for irrelevant issues with their peers , some even go to the extent of sending their nude pictures and videos to their friends, most students also concentrate more on social media instant of academic work , most students also blindly copy wrong lifestyles from people on social media In order to confirm that, major results have been analyzed with respect to gender as well. Some of the results are similar to previous studies and research, while some of the results are contrary to the previous work done in this regard.