Share Paper: Why Facebook Swallowed WhatsApp!

  1. Walther Nagler, Social Learning, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  2. Martin Ebner, Social Learning, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  3. Martin Schön, Social Learning, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Monday, June 22 11:15-11:45 AM Ballroom East

Abstract: Since 2007 Graz University of Technology has undertaken questionnaires on its first-year students. The main goal of that annual survey basically concentrates on the IT- and Web-competences as long as they are related to e-learning. The long-term results display progresses and trends that need to be taken into account for a university´s e-learning strategy. The results of this year mainly state a tremendous triumph of the application WhatsApp. It´s influence on the usage of other applications and it´s relation to Facebook is specially focused. There is no evidence that using WhatsApp has a negative effect on Facebook. Quite the contrary; ...