Within the events and activities carried out by the Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance Unit in the Department of Architecture at the University of Technology for the academic year 2022-2023, an intellectual lecture entitled “Activating the positive use of social networking sites” was organized.
The lecture was given by the lecturer, Nora Iyad Ghaib, an employee at our university.
The lecture aims at acknowledging undergraduate students of the new social media, as modern societies have witnessed at the present time the growing phenomenon of using electronic communication technologies, as a result ,the new generation has no longer interacts with traditional media as much as it interacts with electronic media. This generation named as the network generation or the Internet generation.
There are many social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and others, and students have been instructed to self-monitor while using communication and media technology because these applications are just techniques and their positive usage depends on the nature of their user.