Most students go to Facebook to maintain relationships with people they know. Their motives include behaviors such as sending a message to a friend, posting a message on their friend’s wall, staying in touch with a friend or getting in touch with someone who is difficult to reach. Females go to Facebook for relationship maintenance more than males. A larger proportion of students, more so females than males, go to Facebook to pass time when they are bored or after they receive an e-mail suggesting them that someone had posted on their Facebook site. A significant number of students, more so females than males, use Facebook for entertainment reasons. A smaller number of people use it to develop new relationships or to meet new people, more so males and younger respondents than females and older respondents. This supports what Tewksbury and Althaus (2000) suggested: entertainment and passing time – gratifications typically associated with television and newspaper use – prove to be significant predictors of using Facebook. It also correspondents with the findings of Parks and Floyd (1996), which suggests that females are more involved in online interpersonal relationships than men are