Nowadays, the advent of technology is quickly emerging before our eyes and undeniably, it takes a vital part to people’s lives of today. One evidence on this is the development of social media. Social media can be defined as the relationships that exist between network of people. Over the last few years, the online population grows exponentially with the easy access to the internet. With the evolution of social media, it changes the way one communicates and how one finds and shares personal information, exchanges ideas, feelings, photos and videos at a very overwhelming rate. Social media sites that allow social interaction include Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, MySpace, and many other various blog formats. Through these sites, youth of today can share things about themselves for the whole world to view. These social media sites offer the youth a new way to access communication and entertainment.
The use of social media is one of the most common activities of today’s children and youth. Undeniably, students are increasingly utilizing social media for friends’ news feeds, personal updates, events and activities, notes and messages. They use these sites for posting status of their experiences in school hoping to have more people hit ‘Like’ or give their ‘Comments’. The voluntary messaging function, commonly known as “status” on Facebook and Myspace, or “tweets” on Twitter, allows real-time instant messaging anytime and anywhere in the world. According to an extensive study by the Office of Communications (Ofcom) of the United Kingdom, almost half (49%) of children aged 8-17 who used the Internet had set up their own profiles on a social networking site (Ofcom, 2008a; Dowdall,