1.1 Students’ use of Facebook
The majority of students who join social media want to make informal connections. For this reason, Facebook is very popular (Donlan, 2014). Repeated studies indicate that university students continue to prefer Facebook to other social networks for educational purposes (Lambić, 2016; Vázquez-Cano and Díez-Arcón, 2021).
Here, Cath Brown explains why Facebook is so popular.
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Cath Brown
So as a student I think Facebook can be an incredibly helpful way to connect with others. That you can meet people with common interests, you can get support from people who understand what it’s like to be going through the studying that you’re going through at the moment. You can make some real life-long friends with it as well. So it can make a real difference to your studies if you use it in the right way.
Video 1 Why Facebook?
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There are two main ways of making targeted connections on Facebook; the first is through Facebook Pages and the second, Facebook groups. It is important you know the difference between these two types of connection for your online safety when you engage in this way for your studies.