The Impact of Social Media on Communication Politeness: A Survey of Prospective Primary School Teacher Students

Abstract

The presence of social media into daily life has had a positive and negative impact on communicating manners. This impact also occurs in the educational environment or on campus. This paper aims to analyze student politeness in communicating through social media. The study was conducted by providing a survey of 147 students (ages between 19-24 years). The results of the study prove that communication through social media has an impact on students to be more willing to communicate with anyone. However, politeness in communication have decreased, because the survey shows that the ethics of communicating through social media are not good and not polite. Thus, it can be concluded that social media has influenced the politeness of communication between students and between students and lecturers.