Parent's Perception on the Use of Social Media by Their Ward: A Study

Abstract

As we are living in a networking era, the tremendous growth of the internet has a high impact on the development of the students in which they interact and socialize. During this era, communication is the most popular term. Today, communication revolution brought us together regardless of geographical boundaries. The internet offers a wide variety of communication tools. Billions of people use facilities like search engines, web pages, e-rnails, Really Simple syndication (RSS), e-journals, e-newspapers, internet banking, internet telephony, conferencing, multi-media sharing, online news rooms, social networking etc. Today internet is an essential communication medium in professional as well as personal life. Social networking web sites are sites that allow users to build a profile that will be made public within an enclosed system. Social networking websites also allow users to display some of the other users they communicate with and they allow them to view lists of other members found within the system. The main purpose behind creation of a social networking website is to enable persons to avail preexisting connections. Social networking websites have been created for the purpose of initiating friendships between strangers.