Gender Differences in Facebook usage among EFL students

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 40 - 48, 01.12.2017

Mustafa Naci Kayaoğlu

Abstract

Facebook is a social networking website which has
become the most popular among others, with over 1 billion active users. Along
with economic globalization and the rapid growth in international contacts,
this growing communicative technology has become an inevitable part in all
spheres of our daily life. It is not only a tool that allows us to transfer
information at an astonishing speed and provide instant communication but also
an agent potentially to change the flow of lives. In spite of a number of
studies on people’s attitude towards social networks and online applications,
there is little interest in gender use in this matter. There are even
contradictory reports favoring males and females in the use of information
technology and social media. This paper seeks to answer whether there is any
significant difference between male and female university EFL students in the
use of Facebook.

Keywords

social network, gender, EFL students

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