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SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE, MORAL DECADENCE AND THE IMPACT ON THE NIGERIAN FAMILY VALUES: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
ABSTRACT
The Nigerian society has witnessed tremendous and rapid change through social media, whose large proportion of features is not only anti-Nigerian, but a clog in the preservation of family value system. Online fraud, pornography, nudity, sexual promiscuity, and other obscene materials such as multiple sexual partners which are glorified in social media sites are anti–Nigerian family values. These evils of social media have frustrated the institutionalization of both communal living, sense of decency and proper conduct on one hand, and on the other, creates a disorganized, and grossly fractured family values. To achieve the objectives of the study, three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Literatures related to the variables were reviewed. The sample size of 100 respondents was drawn and same number questionnaire were randomly administered. The gamut of this study is on Social Learning Theory. The chi-square statistical technique was employed to test the hypotheses. Each hypothesis was then tested at 0.05 level of significance with degree of freedom and critical values relative to the statistical technique employed. Findings revealed that the access to social media through smart phones, tablets and computers haves disorganized family values system, and abandoned that informal relationships with siblings and parents, and other unceremonious affairs for the social media. In addition, there has been an increased online fraud through which identity theft and fraudulent emails to swindle unsuspecting victims of their savings. Furthermore, social media has become a dangerous master to the detriment of family‟s dreams of educating their wards. Based on these, the study concludes that government should consider the possibility of creating an awareness of the ills of social media to young people for the well being of the Nigeria society. Finally, the study recommends that students should decrease their access to social media and give careful consideration to their studies. And that government, teachers and parents should undertake measure to control adverse effects of media consumption by students.
Keywords: Social media; Family values; Online Fraud; Culture; Family disintegration and Globalization