Abstract
This research was aimed at identifying hand phone utilization by students at STKIP PGRI West Sumatera. This research was qualitative. The informant of this research were the students who had hand phone who were selected through snowball sampling technique. The data was collected through observation, interview, documentation, and the researcher himself as an active participant. The data was analyzed by using techniques as suggested by Miles and Huberman. The finding of this research showed that hand phone utilization by the students beside it was aimed at its function, as a tool for communication, but it is also to the owner prestige of him/her will be high. Hand phone symbolized one’s success, modern, and high-tech minded. Hand phone had been a part of students life style today, because they wouldn’t like being a part from old-fashioned class. By having hand phone, students had high self-confidence. Beside that, they will be welcomed to the group of those who had hand phone.
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