Social Media Usage and Its Addiction Level among Generation Y Agricultural Scholars in Meghalaya, India

Bai Koyu, Rajkumar Singh, Kankabati Kalai, Talom Dabi, Tanmoy Das
2017 Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension Economics & Sociology  
This study examined Generation Y's psychological addiction to social media with specific regard to Research Gate, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter. The addiction was deduced using Griffiths' five components that govern behavioral addiction: tolerance, salience, withdrawal, conflict and relapse. The tenacity of this study was to clinch if Generation Y agricultural scholars' was in fact addicted to social media because of their necessity to sustain their connections with peers. The
doi:10.9734/ajaees/2017/37024 fatcat:voxvtdji6bho7b6fuyj3x7tmlq