Higher Education Students' Awareness Of The Risk Associated With Using Facebook.

In recent years, Social Networking Sites (SNS) have become the most popular and effective way of communicating. Be it a personal message from one recipient to another or addressing a multitude of followers or friends at once, social media remains a powerful tool for getting a message across. Social media enables users to post and share updates, comments, pictures, videos, and likes. With multiple apps being circulated in the social media arena, Facebook remains a popular choice, with around 2 936 billion monthly users. The Uses and Gratification Theory is the theoretical framework of this paper. The question asked by the author is about higher education students' awareness of the dangers associated with their inappropriate use of Facebook. He used quantitative research methodology, which is referred to as mixed methods. Questionnaires were distributed via Google Forms to students from the university. The author used content analysis by engaging with secondary sources. The primary sources used were obtained from the Internet, Google Scholar and Z Library. Workshops should be held for all students to create an awareness of the dangers associated with posting inappropriate content on Facebook. Further to this, the author recommends that social media etiquette be included in our school curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]