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Some of them just watch the video and forward it to
others. There is not any deep influence of these on the

upliftment of their educational status. People in the 12- 25
age group are mostly aware about the different sites

whether Islamic or others.Out of them only 30% have
some desire to learn from these sites.
Learning from the Islamic sites is not to any limited
beneficial . They may just find about some hadiths which they
ultimately post as link in the social networking sites. Only
10% of them take good advantage of the sites. They may
download the Hadith, tafseer of Holy Quran, , masala etc.
Generally very less of them take full advantage of the
material they download. A responded mentioned that he
often download books written by neo-Muslims about
Islam and translate these into local language and publish
them. Those are later used for dissemination among the
people. He has been successful in influencing some
individuals through his religious ideology.
No respondents is undergoing any online Islamic
course and merely 5% intend to do so if they are
informed.

8. Social Networking
The commonly used social networking sites by the sample
are Facebook and WhatsApp. The others like tweeter,
LinkedIn etc. are rarely used by common people.100% of
the respondents use Facebook and WhatsApp.

9. Facebook
The most common use of FB is the interaction between
friends with regard to day to day events, birthday
greetings, news and events: political events, religious
events, social events, etc.