IMPACT OF FACEBOOK ON URBAN YOUTH: A STUDY ON KOLKATA METROPOLITAN
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 7
Abstract
In 21st centuries facebook has become a popular type of social network which plays a crucial role not only to urban youth but also it has a significant importance to rural youth. In the era of globalisation, facebook is fastened city life worldwide. Facebook opened a new horizon of the virtual communication system in the last few years with popularity. It has lots of attractive features which pull up young generation in superfast way which put a far reaching effect on human being. In this research paper mainly the effects of using facebook among urban youth and how they gets victim in Kolkata metropolitan has been discussed. The approach of people belonging to highly educated group and less educated group is different towards this social media. Thus an attempt has been made to show the different approach of using facebook between highly educated and less educated youth in Kolkata. The relation of facebook accessibility with education has also been shown. Significance of facebook compared to other social networks among them has also been discussed with the temporal variation of using facebook. An analysis also made up to point out the relation between facebook and deviant behaviours which is more frequent phenomena in day to day life in Kolkata. For the completion of this research paper college going students (n = 80) are being interviewed from the core area of Kolkata metropolitan and collected data have been analysed by the relevant cartographic and statistical techniques which infused this paper more scientific. The study has been supplemented with information from news paper reports and other official sources.
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Abhijit Paul
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