SOCIAL MEDIA CULTURE AND THE PERPETUATIONS OF DEVIANCE AMONGST STUDENTS IN POST PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN MAKURDI

The study explores the influence of social media culture on deviance behaviour amongst students in post primary schools in Makurdi. It uses the survey design with the aid of a closed-ended questionnaire to collect primary data from 374 students across 20 secondary schools in Makurdi. The findings are reduced into simple percentages for analysis, interpretation and discussion. Findings reveal that facebook is the most frequently used social media sites amongst students. Initiating friendship and romantic affairs occupy the most illicit activity of students on social media sites and this act is consolidated with the use of porn images. Porousity of information owes much to the abuse of social media sites by students. The traditional culture of reading grossly decline due to the perpetuation of this immoral act. The crusade against this scourge involves the roles of parents, guardians, policy makers and stakeholders in devising pragmatic approaches to contain the negative effects of social media on students in post primary schools in Makurdi.