How Jordanian Youth Perceive Social Networks Influence?

Abstract

Social networks (SN) hit the Arab world strongly in the last few months, where young people communicated, collaborated, and shared all sorts of information and files through Facebook and other types of SNs. It is not clear how young people perceive this type of activity and how they are influenced in their daily livings. It is important to understand how young people see Facebook and understand its advantages and disadvantages. This study utilized 206 responses from different categories mainly undergraduate students (paper survey) and Facebook users (electronic survey) and concluded that the highest perceived advantage of SN is "I can search and find new and old friends (classmates & relatives)" and the highest perceived disadvantage is "Excessive addiction". Conclusions and future work are reported at the end.