Socialization on How to Deal With Hoax Information to Junior High School Students in Oebelo Village, Kupang Tengah – East Nusa Tenggara

This community service activity was held to give understanding and also anticipating to teachers at Oebelo village, Kupang Tengah, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia to the hoax messages contains false and misleading contents. Teachers who are having more time with their students, are expected to inherit their understanding about hoax, so that students won’t trust easily to unverified news. The same guidance delivered to year 7 to year 9 students that in reality already know and start to embrace information technologies – social media. The social media growth has positives and negatives impacts, that needs a proper and urgent handling. Commonly this improvement is directed to bring enhancement of human capital development in this millenium era. In contrary, hoax and its derivatives has drive the community and a person into a destructive manner, hence as the final results of this activity there will be a guide to handle hoax messages; and a guide to extract positives benefits from the various source of information through the internet. This is done as an effort to enhance the quality of human resources.