Recognition Levels of the Students of the Department of Economic Sciences at University of Annaba to the Facebook Merits and Demerits

Abstract

This study aims at detecting how much the social networking website« Face book » is used by the Algerian students، and also their awarenessof the various advantages and disadvantages of this web-site.In order to achieve the objectives of the study، the researchers adoptedthe descriptive analytical method where they used the Questionnairetool to collect data. The research was applied in Badji MokhtarAnnaba University - Algeria on a sample of )93( students from thedepartment of economic sciences at the Master level، They were selectedin terms of the intentional Sampling Method. The results haveeventually shown the great popularity of using the social networkingweb-site « Facebook »، by the aforementioned students at the rate of)94.62%( despite the fact that they have higher levels of awareness ofthe advantages and disadvantages of that web-site.