"From my Facebook profile": What do nursing students share on Timeline, Photos, Friends, and About sections?

Abstract

Introduction: Social media is a platform where knowledge, experience, and thoughts are shared by society. Like many different users, nursing students also take part in this platform. While some researchers are evaluating social media as a new tool for training nursing students and patients, others are drawing attention to the legal, ethical, and moral problems of non-professional and inappropriate content sharing on social media. Since both sides maybe rightful in different aspects, this study was planned to understand why nursing students usually use Facebook which is one of the most popular tools.