The Attractiveness of Facebook in Secondary Students in the Kingdom of Tonga and its Potential

Abstract

Facebook® is a popular social network. There are approximately 1 billion registered users as of 2013. On the other hand, developing countries are starting to take advan- tage of the free platform and capabilities provided through facebook. The Island Kingdom of Tonga located in the South Pacific is also taking advantage of this social network. The secondary students of the Kingdom of Tonga are also curiously and interestingly socializing through facebook. In this paper, we observed through an online survey how much facebook is attracted in high school students and teachers. We also explained a facebook module for Moodle platform version 2.4.3 that was developed to enhance online collaboration in Moodle for students in the Kingdom of Tonga as part of the future works which is also mentioned.