THE İMPACT OF FACEBOOK ON SOCİAL, FAMİLY RELATİONS: PALESTİNİAN FAMİLY PERSPECTİVE

Abstract

The study aimed to know the positive and negative effects of Facebook on the social and family relations of Palestinian youth by measuring a number of variables, by asking a number of questions in a questionnaire published on social networking sites. It reached a number of 200 Palestinian youth. The questionnaire as a tool for collecting data from the study sample, and this study belongs to the descriptive survey studies. The results of the study concluded that entertainment is the highest motive for a share of the motives for the study sample to use Facebook, and then to keep up with political events firsthand, in addition to that more than half of the sample prefer to follow Facebook in the evening period, finally, according to 66% of the respondents that Facebook contributes in family breakdown.