CHARACTER EDUCATION: PHENOMENON OF STUDENTS’ IN SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION ETHICS

During this pandemic there are many new challenges in the world of education. Education that is always required to be applied optimization is none other than character education. Character education is the process of forming one's character into a human being human by optimizing each phase of its development. This paper examines the moral crisis of students, especially in social media as it has recently been discovered and tries to see new problems encountered in virtual learning. Ethics to communicate well and clearly are able to direct each student to positively interact socially in the use of social media. The ability of each individual is very much needed in the aspect of digital literacy or social media literacy to pay attention to the politeness and comfort side of socializing with every social media user. The implication is to maintain a commendable attitude of character so that individuals have responsible self-integrity.