Vocational School Students’ Purposes of Facebook Usage

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 154 - 160, 01.12.2017

Serpil Yorgancı

Abstract

The study investigated vocational school students’
purposes of Facebook usage and examined how some demographic profile, including
gender frequency of Facebook usage and network size on Facebook have played a
role in their purposes of Facebook usage. For the purpose, the researcher used
a questionnaire that was completed by a sample of students at the Erzurum
Vocational School, Ataturk University. The first section of the questionnaire
consists of students’ demographic profile. The second section of the
questionnaire included "Purposes of Facebook Usage Scale" developed
Mazman (2009). This scale consists of 11 items with 3 factors as “social relations”
(7 items), “work related” (2 items) and “daily activities” (2 items). Results
indicated that social relations are the main reason why vocational school
students use Facebook. It is used for communication, sharing news and pictures
and meeting new people rather than worked related purposes. It is also found
that statistically significant differences in purposes of Facebook usage based
on gender. According to the results, females performed better on work related
factor and males performed better on social relations and daily activities
factors.

Keywords

social network sites, facebook, purposes of facebook usage, vocational school

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