Facebook Usage Habit off the Youth:: Challenges and Opportunities on Spiritual Activities
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This study aims at examining how and why Sunday school students use facebook and its related challenges and opportunities. Three communication theories—media dependency theory, the use and gratification theory and technology determinism theory are also considered in the findings of this research. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative methods. For the qualitative method both participant and non- participant observation were used. For quantitative method, survey was used as a data gathering tool. The survey questionnaire was administered to 178 people selected through non-random sampling through convenience and snowball sampling methods. SPSS software is used to analyze the data gathered. The analysis of the data reveals that spiritual youth use facebook for both socialization and spiritual purposes. Despite these opportunities, these youth are facing challenges in using facebook like wasting time, weaken their spiritual activities and addiction. Many spiritual youth also do not worry about whether their posts create any risk or not. This may be the future challenge of the spiritual youth and the church. Based on the finding recommendations are suggested. Of these, the researcher suggests that the spiritual institutions should work together with the government in preparing workshops and seminars in an ongoing manner on how the youth use the social media and in how to design a curriculum and social media usage policy to teach and show the youths on the challenges and opportunities of the social media.
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