This study explains the effect of Twitter social networking sites on the behaviour of secondary school students in Essence International schools, Kaduna and the ways it affect them. The study focuses on social Networking sites, but specifically it focuses on Twitter social networking sites. Interview as methodology is use to collect data and questionnaires as instrument of survey using random sampling techniques. Twitter social networking site has great impact and effect upon the behaviour of secondary schools students in both positive and negatives angles. Communicating with others is a key aspect of using social networks, but most social networking sites are open to all. Social networking sites are attractive to adolescents in part because it is exclusive to them. These social networking sites are a relatively new trend, having a population mostly made up of college and high school students.
The internet is a global system of interconnected computers that uses the standard internet protocol suite (TCPT/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide (Wikipedia, 2011). Castells, (1996) it is a network of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government computer networks linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies.
Castells, (2001) defines the internet as a worldwide interconnection of computers and computer networks that facilitates the sharing of exchange of information among users.
Wikipedia, (2011) explains that the internet carries a vast range of information resources and services to support traditional communication media including telephone, cinema and redefined by the internet, giving birth to new services such as voice over internet protocol (VOIP).
According to the Wikipedia, (2011) newspapers, books and other print media are adapting to website technology or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The internet has enabled or accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, internet for a , and social networking oppapers. Com/essays/2003.
According to cheong and Morrison, (2008), the internet is allowing greater flexibility in working hours and locations, especially with the speed connections, especially with the speed connections and web applications. Also, the internet can now be accessed almost anywhere by numerous means especially through mobile internet devices, mobile phones, data cards, handheld game consoles and cellular routers which allow users to connect to the internet from anywhere there is a network supporting that device’s technology (Goldsborough, 2009).
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