Effect of Social Media in the Academic Life of Students.

In 21st century use of information technology explored to a greater extent to improve the quality of higher education. Social media have significant impact to improve the quality of higher education. Social media helps to share information among friends and teachers in higher education in different forms like text, audio, video , image and pdf . The students experience that social media has played an important role towards their study habits. It helps to improve their learning and skill outcomes. Since todays education is dominated by mobile devices and applications, it is necessary to rethink the academic work environments based on social media tools and applications like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, in accordance with the learning needs, skills, and competencies of students. But sometimes due to excessive use of social media also cause to downgrade the result due to distraction of attention of the students towards the studies.