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ABSTRACT
The new trends of social media have captured the attention of the people all around the world especially the youth and the students in the form of social networking sites are of importance to discussed and analyse. The research was an attempt to examine the effects of social media on the academic performance of the students on public secondary school students in Egor East Local Government Area. The researcher has found that though a number of students make use of social media in a useful manner as a medium of communication and source of knowledge, a good number of them used it to for fun, and entertainment which does not contribute much to them. While the former spent their time meaningfully without affecting their studies, the latter used a lot in wasting their time and it also does affect their studies at times.
This research study has explored and exposed some few guidelines on how to make social media an effective tool for leaning and enriching experiences and also how to make use of different apps as teaching-learning tool, since it is the interest of the young students and has the capacity to be an interesting tool of education. The results of the study shown that student’s involvement in social media has both positive and negative outcome based on how they used. The researcher wanted to clarify that technology does not lessen the student’s abilities to learn but rather it help them to learn different abilities which they have never known before. Today, as we can seed evelopment happens due to technology and social media so, making use of social media for good and positive purposes will enable to the road of progress.
