INTRODUCTION:

In today the modern trend impacts more students are attracted to use the computers and internet. So it plays a very essential role in our life. On-line social networking sites such as face book, orkut, my twitter; etc plays a part of college students life with potential far reaching impact on the way that they study and learn. This websites creates an attitude towards the students for using social networking sites on the internet which evaluates virtual communities where people who shares information, communicate with their friends and to build and maintain their on going relationships. So for analyzing the attitude of students towards the social networking sites by ongoing research. Our research mainly focuses on the students attitudes towards the social networking sites. Social networking sites create the students attitudes towards the usage of internet and behave in front of society. We have taken this towards students attitude about social networking sites. The sample size of this research is 300 students. Questionnaires were given to all students which are from different structures and the data to be collected. The questionnaires contains the questions about gender, age, social networking sites, total number of friends, frequency of complexity, frequency of compatibility, frequency of usage, frequency of trailability, frequency of reliability and get a analyzes of it. The scaling methods used are closed ended and linkert scaling techniques. The social networking sites are used other than the students community. But they are so illiterate peoples. We took a sample with all students communities they can give a feedback and accurate information. This data was collected from primary source

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

The problem statement of this research gives the collection of different opinions from the users who are using the social networking sites. This statement is taken by method of hypothesis. The hypothesis about age and gender group, total number of friends and different social networking sites. These hypothesis should be evaluated and get a results of them.

AREA OF STUDY:
We cover the area for research is to meet various college students which are in and around trichy and thanjavur. Their views are our samples and it is going to be a research. Our sample size is about 300 students.

OBJECTIVES:
The students attitude towards the usage of social networking sites. And it impacts the students attitudes be studied and collected the data and to be analyzed.

DATA COLLECTION METHOD:

The data collection method used for the mini project is Primary Data Method

SAMPLING DESIGN:
The sampling Design used for this mini project is Random Sampling.

STATISTICAL TOOL USED:

The Mean and Standard Deviation to be measured using SPSS 16.0

REVIEW OF LITERATURE:

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