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IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
ABSTRACT
Social networking has become a common international trend which has spread its reach to almost every corner of the world. The use of Social media sites have exploded and evolved into an online platform where people create content, share it, bookmark it and network at a prodigious rate. Among the prominent users of the social media are the students. This research assesses the impact of social media sites on student academic performance in Samuel Adegboyega University. Four research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population used as sample were students from Samuel Adegboyega the significance of the hypothesis. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was the technique of estimation and the F-IJSER University in Edo state. A validated questionnaire with 0.96 reliability was used for data collection. Frequency counts, percentage and mean were the quantitative statistics used. The inferential statistics was applied to assess
statistic was used to determine whether the hypotheses was significant at 0.05. The result shows that there is significant relationship between time spent on social media sites and academic works. It also revealed that the nature of social media activities which the student engages in does not have any significant impact on the student academic performance. In addition the study also shows that the gender of the student has no impact on the usage and activities of social media
Key words: Internet, Social media, Academic work, Academic performance.