Awareness of Social Media among Higher Secondary School Students of Haryana

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Sanyogita Dhanwal1, Santosh Kumari2, Dangi Pooja Arun3, and Poonam Kundu4 (Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana1,4, Department of Family Resources Management, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana2, and Department of Extension Education, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana3)

Social media is a computer-based technology that facilitates the sharing of ideas, thoughts, documents, pictures, videos and information through the building of virtual networks and communities. In literature found that, most of school students were using the different social media but they don’t have enough knowledge about it. The comparative study was conducted between four rural v/s urban schools of Hisar district of Haryana. From the selected schools 11th and 12th standard 40 students were selected randomly from each school. Thus total sample comprised of 160 respondents and the data collected by the simple random method. The findings highlighted the facts that majority of the students were fall under second ordinal position. The students keep themselves updates with latest know and how through newspaper, television, mobile phones, and mobile with internet connections. Majority of the students were aware and utilizing social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Messenger and Wikipedia and generally spent more than two hours on social media irrespective of their locale. Thus, the present paper gives a critical view of the social media preferences of rural and urban students in Haryana.