PROLIFIRATION OF SEXUALITY AMONGST INTERNET USERS IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF FACEBOOK

Abstract

The Internet is very imperative as far as human communication is concern, social media is an off-shoot of the internet, it came to be through the invention of the internet and both have symbiotic relationship as it compliments itself through its applicability. The world becomes a global village via the advancement of technology and the prolific number of internet users is becoming an issue of concern as different activities going on, on cyber space and chances of curtailing or employing restrain or sanction is very slim. There is a widely held perception that nobody owns the internet. However, the paper focused on facebook as one of the social media platform and the paper is set to examine the negative impacts of internet on its users using facebook as a form of social media. The paper adopted uses of gratification theory to support the work. This theory is based on the assumption that, people get gratification on the things that satisfy their needs. The discussion will be presented using descriptive method.