Over the years, social networks has been used for different criminal activities such
as cyber fraud, spamming, cyberbullying, cyber stalking. Cyberbullying is a phenomenon that is
well known in developed countries, popularly on the internet and social networks. However, in
developing countries as Nigeria, the awareness is less. In Nigeria, the majority of youths subscribe
to social networks where cyberbullying is rampant. This study focused on assessing the relationship
that exist between the frequency of social network usage, activities performed and impacts on
cyberbullying among university students, this study use survey of quantitative method to collect
data, the data was analysed using SPSS. The study show WhatsApp and Facebook to be used
frequently among the Nigeria undergraduate students. Most respondent wants to use Social network,
however end up been cyberbullied. Facebook is found to be most used Social Network for cyberbully.
It was found that cyberbully exist among undergraduate and Social Network serves as the
contributory media to which cyberbully occur. This therefore, indicates that Social Network has
certain impact on the increase cyberbully among students.
Keywords: Social networks, cyberbully, university, students
PAPER TITLE :IMPACT OF SOCIAL NETWORKS ON THE INCREASE OF CYBERBULLY AMONG NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN ILORIN METROPOLIS
JOURNAL Of SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY | VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2 2017
Paper Details
- Author(s) : BALOGUN, N.A.1*; AWODELE, T.A. BELLO, O.W. OYEKUNLE, R.A. and BALOGUN, U.O.
- Abstract:
