Pre-university students attitude towards use of facebook

This study explored the attitude towards use of facebook among Pre-University students and to what extent this social network site was subjective to their everyday requirements. In this respect 100 Pre-University students from Vijayapur city were randomly chosen and after reviewing several studies on Facebook use, a questionnaire containing 20 close-ended questions was framed and circulated them in their free times. The collected data was tabled and analyzed with the assistance ms excel. Finally, the study summarizes that the Pre-University students access Facebook for various purposes in their everyday life in which, academic search, online shopping, developing (social) relations, sharing data, chatting, and killing loneliness are primary. The study also confirms and supports the results of previous studies that the consumption of Facebook influences students’ academic, health and social life both negative and positive manners. It is alarmed that if the dependency of students on Facebook is not taken seriously by parents, teachers and policymakers, it would influence their social relationship, health status, moral attitude and academic performance to a large manner in coming years.