Social Media and Their Impact on University Youth "A Study on A Sample Of The Universities of Jordan Students’ "

Abstract

The study aims at exploring the impact of social media and the Social networks on youth at the universities in Jordan. Population of the study is universities youth at the bachelor level who are in the Jordanian universities for the academic year (2017/2018) and who use social networking sites. The study was conducted on a sample of (371) male and female, from Al- Balqa' Applied University and Al-Ahliyy Amman University, presented a model for the Jordanian universities, which were chosen by the purpose method. The descriptive approach was used, because it suits the objectives of the study. The results of the study showed that, there is an socially impact on the Social Media Network and the communication Web-sites on youths at the universities they also showed an impact on behavior and personality, relations with the family and relations with relatives and friends. The results of the study showed no statistically significant differences, on social university youth was attributed to the gender and type of university, while there were differences of statistical significance due to the variable age.