THE TREND OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG SOCIAL WORKERS IN THEIR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Abstract

Social work profession is to help individuals who are physically, socially and mentally ill in society. This study objective was to understand the advantage of social media in the circle of social work practices, professional social workers uses social media by enhancing their abilities and facilitate in their profession. It helps in their literature purpose and also for connecting with other foreign professional social workers. Descriptive analytical technique was used that consisted of 200 professional social workers (both male and female) in this present study. The researchers designed a questionnaire based on the socio economic background, job satisfaction, problems faced by them, social media uses, learning new technologies and knowledge etc. The outcomes showed that use of social media is increase the knowledge and information of professional social workers but mostly have poor social connections thus they face many difficulties in their work place.