CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Teenagers these days widely use social networks (sites). They have made this a part of their daily activities. Every webpage that allows for social interaction is considered to be a social media site. These pages include the social network pages like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Myspace; gaming sites and virtual worlds such as Club Penguin, Second Life, and the Sims; video sites such as YouTube; and blogs (Elda, 2015). Consequently, such sites offer today’s youth a portal for entertainment and communication. Based on the significant increase from previous surveys, 73% of wired American teens now use social networking websites (Lenhart, Purcell, Smith, & Zickuhr,
2010). Lenhart & Madden (2009) argued that a very important factor contributing to early sexual initiation in adolescents is exposure to sexually explicit content on social media. For this reason, the need for social media awareness of teenage pregnancy cannot be overemphasized and thus demand urgent attention.
Teenage is often used interchangeably with adolescence. According to the World Health Organisation (2003), teenagers are the period between 10 and 19 years when secondary sex characteristics appear. Turner and Helms (1993) reported that the teen years fall between the ages of 13 and 19 years. Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenager or under-aged usually within ages of thirteen to nineteen years becoming pregnant, it also refers to women who have not reached legal adulthood who becomes pregnant (Oguguo, 1996). Teenage pregnancy has become a bane in society. As such, the issue of pregnancies among teenage girls seems to be one of the social problems facing not only Nigeria but also several other nations of the world.
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