Social Media Usage among Private and Public Organisations Inibadan

Adedolapo Awoniyi and Moyosore Beckley
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Adedolapo Awoniyi: Department of Arts and Social Science Education, Lead City University
Moyosore Beckley: Department of Arts and Social Science Education, Lead City University

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2023, vol. 7, issue 6, 1001-1009

Abstract: As prevail of mobile networking, social media became ubiquitous in either work or our personal life. Based on Media Synchronization Theory and transformational framework, the present study examined the use of social media among private and public secondary Organizations in Ibadan area of Oyo State. The study employed quantitative method for data collection involving questionnaire administration. Fifteen questions with Likert model and ten yes/no responses in a questionnaire were personally administered to 400 randomly selected students. The obtained data were analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). The results revealed that, both in private and public organizations social media is used by workers to enjoy their leisure time, search for work related information, chat with co-workers, as a means of dissimilating information, share ideas among co-workers among others. This study will be of immense benefit to the Oyo State and Nigeria Administration as it has shown the potent advantage and disadvantage in the use of social media in our organizations and therefore the need to put in place measures to forestall its alluded negative effects becomes imperative.

Date: 2023
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