Social Media Usage and Parental Responsbility Among Parents in Mile One Diobu, Port Harcourt
Keywords:
Exposure, Usage, Social Media, Parents, Parental ResponsibilityAbstract
The study investigates social media usage and parental responsibility among parents in Diobu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The objectives were to: Find out the level of parents’ exposure to social media and how parents use social media platforms negatively to disseminate information and divulge issues about their relationship in Diobu, Port Harcourt. The study was anchored on technological determinism and used theories. It adopted a survey research design with a total of 60,000 as the population of the study, using Taro Yamane as the sample size to arrive at 400. It employed a multi-stage sampling technique with a questionnaire as the instrument of data collection. The result of the study showed that the dominant social media platforms used by parents in Diobu were Facebook and WhatsApp. The result further showed that the extent of the awareness of the consequences of social media use by parents in Diobu on their children is very low. The study recommends that there should be community engagement where digital literacy, online safety, and responsible social media use among parents and children are highlighted.
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