The effect of social media on students : a case study

Abstract EN

In this globalizing society, social media has become one of the popular elements that affect over everyday life.

It works hard to connect people together, share knowledge and exchange messages.

It helps people to interact with each other regardless of the distance among those people.

Social Media is one of the main forms concerning the development of technology which has different forms, social media is considered one of these forms.

Social media aims at connecting people even they are living in different places and times without giving an impact to the geographical boundaries and differences around the world.

Research shows that people use different kinds of social media for different kinds of communications.

Social media has the ability to maintain connection with each other and provides the opportunity for belonging to people who communicate and participate together without being face- to – face with each other.

This paper is an attempt to investigate in detail the effect of using social media in education by checking this effect on students' academic life from different points of view.

The study recommended certain suggestions according to the aims of the study