The Effect of Social Media to the Sustainability of Short Message Service (SMS) and Phone Call
Arif Ridho Lubis, Muharman Lubis, Citra Dewi Azhar · Procedia Computer Science · 2019
In the development of increasingly advanced technology, the use of SMS and telephone has been replaced by smartphone users who are more intended to use social media, especially among students. Social media are online media where users can communicate and interact one another for social interactions conducted online through the internet such as WhatsApp, Line, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Telegram. The existence of social media makes SMS and telephone user switch to social media which has more features, capacities and functions. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the effect of social media to influence the sustainability of SMS and telephone which is seen from the effectiveness of social media in terms of time, quality and quantity, cost, distance, and energy in related to the utilization of SMS and telephone among users. To determine the effect of respected social media, this study use multiple regression, which is analysed using SPSS 17.0 and has passed the validity and reliability test up to 32.7% the influence of all variants. The most dominant influence on Usage and Function variables is Quality and Quantity which has 18% with significant value of test 0,000 smaller than the value set (0.05), the cost of which has 4.7% with significant value of T test at around 0.003 smaller than the value determined (0.05), and Energy which has 2.1% with significant value of T test about 0.013 smaller than the value set (0.05).