Awareness of Cybercrimes Among Postgraduate Facebook Users in a State University of Sri Lanka

Today social media, mainly Facebook, has become the greatest method of communication through the world by connecting people. Accordingly, the academic student has been using Facebook for exchanging information with friends, family, and relatives. Therefore, this study proposes to investigate the awareness of cybercrimes among postgraduate Facebook users in a state university of Sri Lanka. To do this study, a Google Form questionnaire was disseminated to the willingness students and the full answered 291 responses were analyzed by using SPSS. The study used an Independent Sample T-Test method of data analysis to understand the cybercrime awareness on Facebook by determining the variance between the mean gender of the student. According to the results of the analysis indicated that there is a significance in the difference between the gender in all dimensions on the dependent variable. However, there was no significant difference between the gender and age on Facebook. Relatively, the result of the study showed that the respondents were confident in protecting themselves from cybercrime on Facebook. Finally, the output of this study will be used as input for academics, students, and researchers by integrating the social interaction and attitude of Facebook users.