Perception of Social Media Platform among College Students

Perception of Social Media Platform among College Students

Nisha Rajendran

ABSTRACT

An online platform known as Internet community allows users to build Internet community or interactions with individuals who share their interests in personal or professional pursuits, hobbies, or connections in real life. In the current scenario, Internet Community is a rich source of informational entertainment for the majority of literate people. These individuals use Internet community as a forum to express themselves and a vent for their ideas, sentiments, and creative thinking. However, using something excessively can have a negative effect and reduce productivity. This is especially true for college students, as it is rare to meet someone without a Internet community account on sites like Facebook, Whatsapp, ShareChat, Instagram, etc. If you notice majority of the college students, spend more time on Internet Community and get maniacal about it, checking it on average every 30 minutes. In addition to academic schedules, Internet community eats up the majority of students' productive time. This study demonstrates how Internet community affects students' valuing of their time, diverts them from their main objective, and wreck havoc in their personal lives. Thanks to easy access and widespread use of mobile smartphones, the internet community has become immensely popular in recent years. This essay looks into how students' perceptions of the effects of online communities on their success in school, their physical and emotional health, and their general well-being. 220 students from USF's College of Behavioral and Community Sciences took part in a self-reported online survey to learn how frequently students and teachers use the Internet community. The results demonstrate that college students frequently use the Internet community, with many of them doing so while attending classes or working on their homework. More research could be done to examine the effect of online communities on students' feelings and academic performance. We think that technology is essential to today's equation for student success, particularly given the continued growth of social media platforms. 39 percent of people are jobless, compared to 31 percent who work full-time and 30 percent who work part-time.

45% of the population admitted to checking social media sites for 6–8 hours per day, compared to 23% who admitted to doing so for more than 8 hours, 20% who admitted to doing so for 2-4 hours, and only 12% who admitted to doing so for less than 2 hours. The results demonstrate that there are disadvantages to using Internet community, even though most college students do so and spend a lot of time there. According to recent research, the use of the Internet community in higher education has dramatically increased. We know very little about the effects that students' use of the Internet community has on them, though. Understanding how and when students' use of the Internet community impacts their academic engagement and creativity is the aim of the current study.  The findings demonstrate that students' use of online communities is positively correlated with their intrinsic motivation, creativity, and academic engagement. Additionally, cyberbullying has a boundary conditional impact on these relationships, weakening direct and indirect relationships when cyberbullying is more common. Significant theoretical and practical ramifications have been discussed along with limitations and future study paths. The importance of establishing a connection between social networking site use and college students' academic success has increased as a consequence of social networking sites being widely used by college students. The results of the majority of the research that is presently available in this area, however, are noticeably inconsistent and rely heavily on student self-reports. Additionally, the research that is currently accessible frequently presupposes a linear relationship between college students' use of social networking sites and their academic success, omitting the potential moderating impact of social networking site use intensity. Based on competing claims in the literature, we propose an inverted U-shaped relationship between college students' use of social networking sites and their academic success in this study. The growth and acceptance of online communities have given rise to a brand-new space for collaboration and conversation. People congregate in online groups to share opinions and comments on various pieces of information. Blogs, company-sponsored chat rooms and discussion boards, consumer-to-consumer email, forums and websites for product and service reviews, internet discussion boards and forums, moblogs, and social networking sites are just a few examples of the various online encounters that can be had in the Internet community.

Keywords: Internet community, Internet community education, college students, addictiveness of Internet community, Facebook , Instagram, Whatsapp , Youtube.