Awareness and availability of social media among higher secondary school students of Haryana

The Social media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Social media is a computer-based technology that facilitates the sharing of ideas, thoughts, documents, pictures, videos and information through the building of virtual networks and communities. The comparative study was conducted between four rural and urban schools (government and private higher secondary schools) of Hisar district of Haryana. Thus total sample comprised of 160 respondents and the data collected by the simple random method. The findings highlighted the facts that majority of students keep themselves updates with latest know and how through newspaper (80.00%), television (80.00%), mobile phones (80.00%) and mobile with internet connections (82.50%). Majority of the students were aware and utilizing social media such as facebook (90.00%), whatsapp (85.00%), youtube (88.75%), messenger (58.70%), and wikipedia (58.70%) and generally spent more than two hours on social media irrespective of their locale.