MOBILE CHATTING BEHAVIOUR OF ARTS AND COMMERCE COLLEGE STUDENTS

Abstract

Mobile connectivity is the order of the day. Personas, irrespective of their socio-economic status, possess mobile devices, either basic or advanced Android, Windows or iOS. The chat applications have become popular with the younger generation. It has started trickling down to children below the age of eighteen. The behaviour has influenced the aged also. The mobile chat applications have no barriers with regard to age group, nativity, social status and economic status. The increasing dominance of these mobile chat applications needs to be studied. It has been eating away at our young people’s time and minds. The recent election in Tamil Nadu is the best example. Parties have used these chat applications to make their comments, appeals, abuses and pleas. Wherever we go, it is obvious that the students sit with mobile apps, ignoring the presence of others. It has become the natural quest of everyone who has a penchant for doing research to take up a study on this behaviour. Hence, the investigators have taken up this study to find out arts and commerce college students' mobile chatting behaviour, like use of chat applications, time of chatting and chatting with the people associated with them. The study has used the simple random sampling technique of 300 arts and commerce college students of the Sabarkantha area. The findings of the study reveal that there are four chat applications, namely WhatsApp,Messenger, Skype and Hangouts, occupying first, second, third and fourth
places, respectively, among arts and commerce college students.