Impact of Facebook Obsession Among University Students in Bangladesh

Tahsin Sharmila Raisa

In the era of science and technology the website “Facebook”has become a widely accessed social network in all overthe world. As internet becomes easy accessible, people can get almost every kind of information using it.Almost 2.1 billion people in all over the world are using “Facebook”, where a largenumberof them are students. They share their thoughts, activities and acquire knowledge from it. Besides the benefits, it has some negative effects for the users, especially the teenagers. They are getting addicted to“Facebook” and wasting their valuable time by doing some non- fruitful activities. Our study has focused on “Facebook”mania among university students of Bangladesh. We took a sample of 300 students from Jahangirnagar University, University of Dhaka and Daffodil International University and found that78.4% are problematical“Facebook” users where 41.4% are highly addicted to it. We also obtained from the data that there are some meaningful relationship between addiction level and gender with age.