A Study on Domination of Social Networking Sites on interpersonal relationship of students

Abstract

Social networking sites users are growing up day by day. Young generation people are frequently using these sites for various purposes including gaming, chat, doing business and many more. It also allows us to interact with the unknown people who share common interest with us. Through these SNS, we develop virtual interpersonal relationships with friends existing in the online world. The study aims to investigate the reasons of domination of these social networking sites and its impact on interpersonal relationship of student’s life. A survey was done on the 300 students of five different colleges through the simple random techniques. It was found that there is a very significant connection between social networking site utilization and interpersonal relationships. Excessive use of social networking sites hampers the interpersonal relationship of the students to a large extent. Students need to understand the differences between the real world and the virtual world. Relying on these websites, which encourage online friendships, is bad since it increases the risk of meeting people with questionable behaviour. These sites hinder face-to-face friendship, but many students do not consider that and they use SNS in order to communicate conveniently with their faraway friends.