Published September 11, 2016 | Version v1
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A STUDY ON IMPACT OF USING WHATSAPP ON REDUCTION OF STRESS

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  • 1. Assistant Professor in Commerce (Aided), NGM College (Autonomous), Pollachi, Tamilnadu
  • 2. Research Scholar, M.Phil – Full Time, NGM College (Autonomous), Pollachi, Tamilnadu

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In this current scenario where everyone is busy in their Schedule, they often don’t get time for their relatives, friends and family. But thanks to the technology that it helps to cut the distance between our relatives. If they want to talk with their loved ones they like to prefer chat on several applications which free of cost and just required minimum amount of internet package which makes life easier rather to pay high cost of calls and messages to telecom companies. There are number of applications available in the market which people use according to their preference, Whatsapp application is one of them, an application which not only has function of chatting but also other very convenient functions. The main objectives of the study is to identify the using Whatsapp faced on reduction stress. The study was conducted on 400 questionnaire using convenience sampling method. The study makes use of statistical techniques such as simple percentage analysis and Chi- square test in analyzing the data for finding the result. The results revealed that the social media application needs to improve their services to satisfy all types of users. Whatsapp is a great application that offers various benefits to the customer. It provides the best features that an internet messaging application can provide to us. With that, we can easily send enough unrestricted messages to our Whatsapp friends.

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