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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ USAGE OF INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATIONS IN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP

Mustofa Worku Jemal

Volume: 9 Issue: 2 2019

Abstract:

Now a days, the youth, with the coming of the internet in the past decade, consumes different instant messaging applications for many different purposes. Thus, the objective of this study was to find out if students use such applications for initiating, maintaining and ending a relationship. Using random sampling technique, 413 representative sample was taken only out of 2300 social science and humanities students at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. The data was collected through a structured questionnaire in which 376 were collected back. The result indicates that students use instant messaging applications to initiate, maintain and end a relationship and to socialize with others.

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