اعتماد الشباب السعودي على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي في الحصول على المعلومات حول أزمة كورونا

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Dependnece Saudi youth on social media to obtain information about the Corona crisis
The importance of this study lies in the idea of knowing, to what extent social media platforms are capable to provide youth with sufficient information about the pandemic that occupied the world's attention, and led to remarkable increase in the use of media.

Particularly social networks that look to the pandemic as a global crisis, made all people around the world (who are of the same destiny) seek to save their lives.

As far as Saudi youth rely on social media as a major source of gaining information about the pandemic.

Thereby the problem of study attempts to highlight that level of reliance.

Regarding the ranking list of states using Twitter, It was confirmed that KSA comes first.

The key question of the study is: what is the level of Saudi youth dependence on social media to get information about the pandemic?
Among the objectives, the study attempts to deal with the idea of knowing the impact of social media upon processes of spreading health culture, knowing the negative impact of social media covering the entire society.

And how Saudi youth, from their own perspective think to avoid that negative impact.

Another goal focused by the study, is to have a look at the most important topics presented to the youth via social media as a source of information
The study used to conduct a descriptive approach, and questionnaire to collect data.

One of the findings of the study is that 82.7% of the sample survey see Tweeter the important source of information about the pandemic.

Others with percentage of 40.3% see Instagram as the main source.

While 36% see Snap chat, and 34% see Facebook.