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Table 3 Percentage of PT students using social media and social networks on a daily basis

From: Undergraduate physical therapy students’ attitudes towards using social media for learning purposes at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Response

Males

Females

Total

1. Web-based social networks (SNSs) (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, and classmates)

11 (13.9%)

1 (1.3%)

12 (7.6%)

2. Blogs and microblogging (e.g., Twitter)

39 (49.4%)

59 (74.7%)

98 (62.0%)

3. Snapchat

66 (83.5%)

68 (86.1%)

134 (84.8%)

4. Media sharing (e.g., YouTube)

49 (62.0%)

68 (86.1%)

117 (74.1%)

5. Instagram

57 (72.2%)

60 (75.9%)

117 (74.1%)

6. Text chat (e.g., WhatsApp)

64 (81.0%)

69 (87.3%)

133 (84.2%)

7. Wikis (e.g., Wikipedia)

16 (20.3%)

13 (16.5%)

29 (18.4%)

8. Video teleconferencing (e.g., Skype)

5 (6.3%)

2 (2.5%)

7 (4.4%)

9. Other

1 (1.3%)

2 (2.5%)

3 (1.9%)

  1. Data are represented as frequency and percentage
  2. Others: Swarm, podcast, SoundCloud, and Telegram