Practices of social media and its waves in cyber bullying

Raj Bahadur Sharma, Sandeep Solanki

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Abstract

The study investigates the usage tendencies and practices of social media among the social media users in Saudi Arabia. The researchers examine the overall effects of the social media on the life of social media users and to identify the reactions of cyber bullying activities. For the study, data has been collected through semi structured questionnaire; chi-square and ranking methods were used to testing the hypotheses. It is found that the users utilize the social media for buying products or services online, especially with bulk discounts or offers. Mostly users are not being affected by cyber bullying activities, it shows that they are fully aware about cyber bullying and also not indulge unnecessarily. The study concluded that there is no association between selection of social media and gender; purpose of using social media and gender, victimizing by social media and gender.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)369-375
Number of pages7
JournalInternational Journal of Scientific and Technology Research
Volume9
Issue number2
StatePublished - Feb 2020

Keywords

  • Behavioral impacts
  • Cyber bullying
  • Social media
  • Social networking

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