Reflections of Social media Platforms on University Youth’s Behaviour: A Social Field Study at the University of Babylon

Abstract

Social media plays a prominent role in the process of social interaction virtually between individuals which is the dominant feature in contemporary societies. In the age of informatics، the world has become a small village whose behavior behaves somewhat uniformly as a result of falling under the influence of the modern globalization system that pursues unilateral perspective in order to achieve the goals of that system that conflicts intellectually، religiously، socially، culturally، economically and politically with the nature of our Arab Middle Eastern societies. Today، social media has become harmful as a result of the bad use of it، because all individuals can access it effortlessly and communicate with what they want from people، whether they know them or not، or watch what they like according to what dictates to himself whenever he wants and how he wants.As a result of the occurrence of most members of society، especially university youth، under the influence of the new global system and the great role these websites play in stirring up their feelings and instincts، our young people today are busy with social media of all kinds (Facebook، You Tube، Instagram، Twitter... etc) on Calculating the social، family، academic and intellectual aspects and all the obligations and duties that they have on them، whether on the personal level or on the social level.