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What types of social media do students use and why? Table 2 Use of communication social networking tools (n = 60)
To what extent are you using the following social media tools for communication purposes?
Type of social media e-mails Mxit
Facebook Blogging Twitter Wikis SMS YouTube
Never 7% 0 0
24% 0 0 0
33%
Seldom 33% 3% 7% 56% 7% 36% 0
41%
Often 51% 27% 17% 14% 17% 7% 10% 20%
Very Often 19% 21% 33% 6% 33% 33% 27% 6%
Consistently 0
49% 43% 0
43% 24% 63% 0
Based on the data in Table 2, the majority of students consistently used MXit, Facebook, Twitter and SMS as social media tools to communicate with friends and family and during teaching practice.
Use of blogging (n=60) Social networking Educational purpose 48 31 19 11 25 12 5 29 10
Figure 1 Use of blogs as a Web 2.0 social media tool
Based on the information in Figure 1, the majority of PGCE student teachers used blogs very often (49%) as a social networking tool. On the other hand, they used blogs often for educational purposes (29%). The majority of students in this
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