Impact of social media on the Academic Performance of Female Students

Advent of internet or worldwide web has provided us with enormous technologies or platforms transforming the world into global village wherein it has become easy for people to connect, collaborate, gather and exchange information with each other with just a click of button. Social media is the most exclusive gift of this advancement and has occupied a crucial position in our life dividing the whole world into offline and online space. Today’s generation which is more tech savvy has become great users of social networking and they have become addicted to it to such an extent that it has become very difficult for them to spend one day without it. The present study examined the impact of social media on the academic performance of 200 female college going students. It was found that number of hours spend daily on social media has significant and negative impact on the academic performance of female students.