IS1

Cumulative
Frequency Percent Valid Percent Percent

Valid Strongly Disagree 8 12.3 12.3 12.3

Disagree 2 3.1 3.1 15.4

Neither Agree nor Disagree 27 41.5 41.5 56.9

Agree 17 26.2 26.2 83.1

Strongly Agree 11 16.9 16.9 100.0

Total 65 100.0 100.0

Overall, the results of this study have broad implications for understanding individuals who use
social networking sites like Facebook and how their use of Facebook use are related to
interpersonal communication. The major purpose of using social networking sites like Facebook is
for contacting friends and families. It was evident that social networking sites have significant
positive relationship with interpersonal communications among university students. Individuals
with higher Facebook intensity use were more the more it affect their interpersonal
communication.

The study set to examine the relationship between the use of social networking site like Facebook and
interpersonal communications among university students. In view of the above summary, it was evident
that social networking sites have significant positive relationship with interpersonal communications
among university students. The study showed that university students were users of the social
networking sites with most of them having over 200 Facebook friends. The study further showed that
the use of social networking sites have significant relationship with students’ interpersonal
communication of the students both online and offline. For instance, some of them would rather chat
with an online friend than stage a face to face talk, this is because face to face may inhibit the teenagers
from expressing themselves openly especially to members of the opposite sex. The study also concludes
that, although the SNSs have helped improve relationships among close teenagers as friends, they have
also made the teenagers not to be able to build interpersonal relationships among other friends who are
not close to them. They have inhibited the teenagers from being able to express themselves face to face
especially to the members of the opposite sex because they are spending a lot of time on their mobile
phones accessing the SNSs at the expense of going out and finding friends to interact with face to face.
The research showed that teenagers have become addicted to social networking sites that some feel
they would not survive without social networking sites.
 Strongly Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Total
Disagree Agree
Interpersonal Communication Scale F % F % F % F % F % %

Facebook makes my communication 8 2 27 17 11 65

easier

In Facebook, I can express myself 12 13 30 6 4 65

freely

I feel close to my friends on

Facebook

I can communicate with my friends

from the opposite sex easily on

Facebook

I can communicate with my friends

from the opposite sex easily on

Facebook

Facebook reduces face-to-face

communication

Facebook reduces loneliness

I feel free on Facebook

I don’t feel alone on Facebook

I feel alone on Facebook

I believe you can start romantic

relations on Facebook

When I want to socialize with my

friends I mostly use Facebook

When I want to socialize with my

friends I mostly use face-to-face

communication

When I want to socialize with my

partner I mostly use Facebook

When I want to socialize with my

partner I mostly use face-to-face

communication

Interpersonal Communication Scale