At the beginning of this millennium public usage of internet has increased very
noticeably in this country, mainly in the capital city. In the last few years, usage of
internet has increased in different sectors. Social networking/facebook is one of them
which have increased dramatically, especially to the students of different categories.
This study is designed with a view to analyzing the use of Facebook by the students
of different private universities of Bangladesh and its impact on education. The study
is mainly based on primary data which were collected from 500 students as sample
of different private universities in Dhaka. Some statistical tools like mean, standard
deviation, hypothesis etc. were used for analyzing data in this study. The students of
different private universities seem to enjoy discovering the Facebook for chatting,
comments passing, message sending, photo and video sharing, and blogging etc. that
enable the communication with relatives, friends, teachers and around the globe.
They are even using facebook for gathering information and enhancing academic
knowledge but as a matter of fact, majority of them still misuse Facebook like
unnecessary chatting, bad comments passing, vulgar message sending etc. The study
concluded that the excessive use of Facebook can be the reason of decreasing
academic result. The students should not ignore their academic activities by using
facebook excessively.. The study also recommend some suggestions for the students
such as utilizing the Facebook in useful purpose like collecting and gaining
information, sharing important ideas, knowing the world etc. and should not ignore
the academic activities in the reason of Facebook usage. The authority of the state
should also take necessary steps in this regard.
