Study on Use of Social Networking Sites by Students in Selected Engineering Colleges in Tiruchirappalli

Abstract

The present paper investigates the Use of Social Networking sites by students selected Engineering Colleges in Tiruchirappalli. Professional course of Engineering has Four Years during the periods and Interest in engineering careers in different fields of Engineering for today needs in the society. The Majority of the academician is using the social networks for Academic, Entertainment, sharing for information and communication. The analyzes has describes the Frequency of Access Social Networking Sites, Types of the Social Networking Sites, Time spent, Preference Place, Opinions, Purposes and Satisfaction level. The majority of the respondents are among the five institutions the mostly using the Indira Ganesan College of Engineering (21.99%), Male respondents are in the top most level (61.70%) followed by Female (38.30%), The types of the Social Networking Sites wise using the majority in Face book (27.66%), the Frequency is “Daily (37.59%), types of the Social Networking Sites are using Face book (27.66%) and Time spent on social networking sites of the respondents are more Less than 1 hour (45.39%) of the Engineering Students