Impact of Social Networking Sites (SNS) to the Students’ Interpersonal Communication Skills: Basis for Behavior Modification
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https://doi.org/10.24113/dhs7rn47Keywords:
Interpersonal Skills, Social Network Sites, Behavior ModificationAbstract
The social networking site or SNS is an online platform that gives opportunities to the users to set up a profile to have interactions with the other website users. The SNS provides connections from individual to worldwide audience. It is the avenue where interpersonal communication is taking place. These websites are channels for exchange of information and feeling where verbal messages are delivered and non-verbal messages are executed. In other words, SNS provides face-to-face communication. On the other hand, in its context, lies the possible influences of its social platforms to the behavior of the users; hence, this paper deals with the SNS impact to the interpersonal communication skills of the student online users to identify modes for behavior modification. Respondents mostly post millennials get online only for fun and entertainment. Majority of them spend 4-7 hours online with family and friends on the other line without concrete purposes which further implies that meaningful communication experience through SNS is taking place only sometimes. Most users send messages to get and to give feedback as part of everyday conversation when even the most trivial concerns are discussed. Results yield a mediocre impact of the SNS to the interpersonal communication skills of the student users. Hence, some elements for its development have been recommended to the SNS, schools parents for the behavior modification of the student users of online platforms.
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