Age: Gender:

13-15 Male

16-21 Female

22-29

Hours spent on facebook: 20 21-30 30

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QUESTIONNAIRE

Instructions: Please read the questions carefully and tick the answers. Strongly QUESTIONS Agree Agree 1. My social life is similar to what it was like before I started using facebook.
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Strongly Disagree

Disagree

I dont know most of my facebook friends. My family friends or peers do not feel any changes in me due to my usage of social networking sites. I do not feel any alterationin thr attitude of my siblings, friends or peers towards me after they have been online on facebook. Due to my spending of above mentioned hours on social networking sites every week, my results have been affected in a negative way. I feel that social networking sites have helped me in forming social relations. I personally know each of my friends on facebook. I feel the social networking sites have helped me in forming social relations. I need social networking sites to make friends and socialize. When I see photos of my facebook friends on the web I feel left out and uncool. Seeing so many comments on status updates on facebook of other people, I feel friendless when nobody comments on my status. I cannot make friends in real life as easily

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as I make friends on the net. I sometimes take up random photos of me, so that I can later upload them on facebook and get comments on them by friends. I feel left out when I open up my facebook account and see less than 7 8 notifications. When I look at pictures of my facebook friends enjoying and having fun without me, I feel like nothing interesting ever happens in my life. Using facebook has not affected my social skills at all. Seeing few notifications or less wall posts makes me feel as if I am not a cool person and that I do not have many friends. When someone does not reply to my messages I feel rejected. When I dont have many facebook wall posts I feel like a social outcast. Sometimes I feel like physically hurting myself after I have been to facebook. Sometimes I become irritable after using facebook. I feel good about myself after using facebook.

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