The Perception Of Social Media Antagonism On Youth Development In Nigeria (A Case Study Of Ilorin Metropolis)

The Perception Of Social Media Antagonism On Youth Development In Nigeria (A Case Study Of Ilorin Metropolis)

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of The Study

Social media was constructed as a result of modernization in all countries of the world. Social media is an important tool for literacy among youths, Bliss 1998. Social media can be seen through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and other social websites. The invention and preface of it’s to change and transfigure the way we suppose, learn and live our lives, interact and also to embrace growth and technology.

In recent times, the Internet has come the major means of communication for numerous people, if not all. Specifically, youths have ate and embracedthis new system of communication as the veritably important way to keep in touch with family and musketeers. Social media websites, like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter are the most popular and utmost visited places for youths to spend their time. currently, it’s delicate to point out a youth that can stay down from social media website for a day. Half of their day is frequently spent on social media, Agiriga 2000. Attention has always been given to the donation of peer stations and geste on and towards social media networks. Looking at it nearly, it looks as if a good number of youths creating networks and online presenceare an essential mode for the operation of identity, life, and social relations. It has been discovered and noted that the capability of a youth to join a community is affected by both the number of musketeers he has within the community, and more crucially how those musketeers are linked to one another, Ayodele 1997. Some experimenters estimated the preferential geste ofYahoo! Groups. They discovered that different types of groups yielddifferentlevels of engagement. Members of a lower, private group frequently times have advanced position of engagement than members of a large, public bone . The further groups a person belongs to, the better and more he’d be heavily involved in all of them.

More importantly, media has the capability to control a whole lot. It can control a person’s life, how important musketeers one will have, etc. It suggests enthusiasm, aptitude and chance substantially in scholars veritably much. With rapid-fire advancements in communication technologies, the new media began taking up more space within collaborative living every passing day. In the same light, the media influences the social relations, dispatches of people, the social balance, and the internal dynamics of the society and the life style of people. Social media have switched our former world to a world where bare tools are the communication itself; people are now embracing the new habits and casting new social life styles. The influence New Media has on social life has multiple- dimensional, multifaceted relations, rather than only one- dimension. Hence, the media, the youths, society and artistic means impact each other and bring forth new means to produce a lasting society alongside with this process. Presently, the heads and terrible failures which have a consummate position within social balance, take place each around the world in different angles and with different speed. Quite a good number of youths have lost their lives as a result of the musketeers they met on social media, while some people’s life styles have changed from good to worse because of social media. These heads most timeslead toprofound losses of mortal life or profitable losses as mentioned over. therefore, governments andnon-governmental associations should make trouble to take numerous defensive and preventative measures in this field. In this form of extremity situations, institutional sweats aren’t solely fulfilled; hence, the duty and effectiveness of people, youths have also changed and developed, analogous to the growth in communication technologies. Through social media, people youthshave started going through different heads and replying to heads much more frequent and fast. Studies have been conducted on the extent or position to which social media extremity situations and created charts of new media tools for these situations.

Statement Of The General Problem

The increase in the use of social media platforms like facebook, twitter, 2go, instagrametc. have significantly affected the average life of youths in the country. The development of the Nigerian youths has witnessed significant challenges as what’s anticipated of the Nigerian youth has not been seen. The general rise in the use of social media in Nigeria has negatively affected the youths as further than 70 percent of youths in Nigeria are in one social media platform or the other.

Aims And Objects Of The Study

The major end of the study is to examine the perception of social media enmity on youth development in Nigeria. other specific objects of the study include;

To examine the effect of social media on the Nigerian youth.

To examine the impact of social media enmity on youth development.

To assess the significance of social media in Nation structure.

To punctuate the position of use of social media by youths in Nigeria.

To recommend better ways of enhancing youth development in Nigeria.

Exploration Questions

What the effect of social media on the Nigerian youth?

What’s the impact of social media enmity on youth development?

What’s the significance of social media in Nation structure?

What’s the position of use of social media by youths in Nigeria?

What are the ways of enhancing youth development in Nigeria?

exploration thesis

H0 Social media enmity doesn’t have an effect on youth development in Nigeria.

H1 Social media enmity has an effect on youth development in Nigeria.

Significance Of The Study

The study would be of immense significance to Nigerian youths as it would unveil the effect of social media enmity on Youth development. The study would greatly profit scholars, experimenters and scholars who are interested in developing farther studies on the impact of effect of social media in Nigeria.

Scope And Limitation Of The Study

The study is confined to the perception of social media enmity on youth development in Illorin megalopolis.

Limitation Of The Study

fiscal constraint-inadequate fund tends to stymie the effectiveness of the experimenter in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature or information and in the process of data collection( internet, questionnaire and interview).

Time constraint- The experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This accordingly will cut down on the time devoted for the exploration work.

Description Of Terms

Perception the way in which commodity is regarded, understood, or interpreted.

Social Media Social media are interactive technologies that grease the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.