Trupti J. Vyas 1 - 20 Parallel Life of Students on Social Networking Sites

Social media tools have become ubiquitous. You can see our students use them all the time. Among them most popular tools are Facebook, Wiki, YouTube, bulletin board, LinkedIn, blogging, and twittering. The advancement of modern technologies tries its best to accommodate the needs from people, especially the younger generation. This paper will share a research study that was conducted in rise of 2012 in north Gujarat region. The study investigated student?s use of different social media tools, their usage rate, and their preference of social networking groups. The study also investigated the awareness level of students towards cybercrime. The results show that the three top-used social media tools are Facebook, Yahoo Group and Orkut; the top four reasons for using social media tools are for social engagement, direction communication, instant messaging, and relationship building. Even though students aware about cybercrime but most of them are not understand the meaning of phishing, vishing and cyber squatting. Based on their response, the research evoked some educational implications of some of these tools as a valuable resource for teaching and learning.