ABSTRACT
The study concerns with the impact of
facebook and 2go as an effective interpersonal media of communication with
specific focus on the students of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree. There is no
doubt about the fact that the world is completely in a global village as
postulated by Professor Marshall McLuhan, according to him the world is now
compressed into a single electronic room where information from far and near
can be exchanged with a click of mouse. However, social media is one of the
internet tools that facilitate effective, interactive, interpersonal and
immediate feedback in communication among the people most especially in this
era of ICT. There is no gainsaying in the fact that social media facebook and
2go in particular are the most common and effective means which people
communicate and interact with one another irrespective of the geographical
location and time. Survey method was adopted with the use of questionnaire to
elicit data from the respondents. Recommendations are that Nigerian students
should make good use of converged media so that they are not limited to one or
few sources of information when there are numerous sources. Youth should also
ensure they maintain their existing offline relationships while creating value
even though these forms of electronic media are available. Future researchers
should therefore conduct surveys that will trigger the students to talk about
such personal issue like social identity.
