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Table 5 Reasons for non-use of social media (n=64)

From: Taking social media to a university classroom: teaching and learning using Twitter and blogs

Challenges

n

Percent

Lack of money to buy Internet data bundles

39

60.9

Failure to access university Internet for free

38

59.4

Poor university Internet bandwidth

33

51.6

Shortage of computers

29

45.3

Lack of initial training on using Twitter and blogs

23

35.9

Twitter and blog servers were sometimes unavailable

22

34.4

Lack of time to create content for posting on Twitter and blog

16

25.0

Frequent electricity outages

11

17.2

Addicted to Twitter and this affected my other class assignments

6

9.4

Personal: I don’t like web 2.0 technologies

3

4.7