The Use of “Facebook” to Build an LIS Student Learning Community

This study aims to investigate the using behavior of social network to build LIS learning community of Mahasarakham University's undergraduate students. The results demonstrated that, before participated into the research, most of the undergraduate students have their own Facebook accounts and all of them could access the Internet. The highest frequency of using Facebook was 7 days per week while the duration of use was around 1-3 hours. Most of undergraduate students agreed that it was more convenient to follow up and they could ask some inquiries all the time. They were also satisfied to know and talk to other students studying the same subject or having similar questions. When they had any inquiries or would like to update information, they would read wall posts of their lecturers and curriculums to check news, announcements and assignments. Moreover, they used chat function to communicate or ask their lecturers or friends their questions with. To the problems and obstacles of the use of Facebook, nevertheless, most of undergraduate students felt that it was unsafe and they were afraid that their information would be revealed. Besides, they had to follow up the information from too many people because not all of lecturers used Facebook.