Gender Differences in Facebook usage among EFL students

Authors : Mustafa Naci KAYAOĞLU

Pages : 40-48

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Publication Date : 2017-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

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