The Social Impact of Facebook on Tertiary Students

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, grade: 3.3, The University of Hong Kong (School of Professional and Continuing Education), course: English for Professional and Academic Purposes II, language: English, abstract: This research investigates into the impact of Facebook on tertiary student in HKU SPACE Community College. This reserach is conducted due to the popularity boom of Facebook recently occured and 50 questionnaires are given out as a result, supplemented by second-hand data. From our findings, we conclude that Facebook does not vary lives much, especially to family relationship. However, it do make our peer relationship closer. By large, Facebook receives positive views from tertiary students, but still, there are certain negative impacts that a tertiary students may be prone to when using Facebook.