Technological change impact on some social values of rural youth in Assiut governorate, Egypt

Research mainly aimed to determine the degree of use of the rural youth respondents to social networking sites, and to determine the level of change in the studied social values ​​in light of the respondents’ use of social access sites, and to determine the relationship between the degree of the respondents’ use of social networking sites and the level of change in the studied social values. Research was conducted in Assiut governorate, Egypt as a geographical area; and Five administrative centers were choose in a random way, Dayrut Center, Sadafa Center, Sahel Saleem Center, Al-Ghanayem Center, and Assiut Center, two villages were randomly selected from each center: Sanbo and Dachlot villages in Deirout center, Awlad Elias and Majris villages in Sedfa center, Al Matamr and Al-Awnah vellages in Sahel Saleem center, Deir Al Janadla and Al-Masha’a Bahri vellages in Ghanaim center, Manqbad and Mosha vellages in Assiut Center, and accordingly the number of young pepole in the selected villages was counted and their number reached 48024, it reached 382 respondents, and the table, frequencies and percentages were used to display the data. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was also used to determine the relationship between the degree of the respondents’ use of social networking sites and the level of change in the studied social values, through the Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS). Research several results, the most important of which are the following:
1. That slightly more than half of the respondents (51%) had a medium degree of use of social networking sites, and nearly a third (28.5%) had a low degree of use, and just over a fifth (20.5%) The respondents had a high degree of use of these sites.
2. Results also showed that the level of change in social values ​​was average for more than half (54.7%) of the respondents, high for nearly a third (31.9%) of the respondents, and low for more than one tenth (13.4%) of the respondents.