THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AS A TOOL OF EDUCATING PEOPLE

Abstract

Education in the broad sense concerns the whole experience, understanding others, provide an
understanding that the education activities laid on teaching (instruction), while in terms of
personality fostered is the cognitive aspects and habits. Therefore, in a didactic learning in
cognitive and behavior (habit) for users in social media means providing education. The purpose of
this study is to describe how social media can be an educational tool for the community at large.
Researchers in this study used qualitative methods to analyze the data. Qualitative research seeks
to lift an ideographic various phenomena and social reality. The results of research and discussion
illustrate that most people access the Internet more than one or two hours per day. As they do with
Accessing the internet is with an assortment, so social media is Able to provide education depends
on the intended use of social media users, such as for example, the students they will always seek
to fulfill the tasks in the study.