Design and development of a cheap and secured communication application network for academic community as an alternative to the expensive traditional social media application Network

The internet has been a platform for individuals, groups of people and companies to interact with one another through social media applications that either provides instant messaging service or non- instant messaging service. The social media has truly aided interactions among various settings and even business services, etc. Social media applications are now been used as tools/platforms to create discussions, connect with people (mostly of similar interests) and as sources of relevant information. This work intends to make use of social media platform as tool in helping information dissemination among students in academic community, especially now when the need for information dissemination seems unfeasible as a result of cost of connectivity attached to the current instant messaging system like 2go, WhatsApp and so on. In the work, an instant messaging system that can be used by students without any cost of internet connectivity was developed. The system was purely an implementation of networking related classes and interfaces in Java. The system was tested after its implementation and found effective with its operation.