Awareness And Use of Social Network Among Undergraduate Students of Kaduna State College of Education Gidan Waya

Abstract

Undergraduate students of Kaduna State Colleges of Education Gidan waya widely engaged using Social
Network. Thus, this study was designed to find out the use of social network for academic activities among
undergraduate students of Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan waya. A survey research design was
adopted to collect the relevant data of study, questionnaires were administered among the undergraduates
students, subsequently; simple percentage and mean was applied to analyze the relevant data of the study.
Findings from the study revealed that most of the undergraduate students of the college have use Social
Network for Academic purposes. Students know the use of social Network for academic purposes, they
know the implication of the use of the Social Network for academic purposes, they know how to use the
Social Network for academic purposes, they know how to operate the Social Network applications for
academic purposes and know the relevance of social network applications for academic purposes. The
challenges faced on the use of social network platform are high cost of data is a challenge to the use of
social network among undergraduate students, lack of technical skills on use and operation of social media
gadgets is a challenge of use of social network among undergraduate students lack of use of social network
by lecturers for academic activities, activities of hackers, high cost of social network gadgets and cyber
bulling. The researchers recommends that lecturers should encourage the use of social network services for
academic purposes.