A Critical Analysis on Negative Impact of Social Media on College Students in Bangalore South, Bangalore

Social media plays an important role in people’s lives. It also observed a remarkable and quickprogress in technology in the world because of the large number of people who wake-up every morning to check with their social accounts instead of reading the newspaper. The usage of social media is not limited only to professionals also it is been widely used in educational sectors by the students. The increasing usage of social media has far reaching influence on Social Interaction, Entertainment and Academic improvement among students.Social media helps to acquire knowledge through establishing communication with other students and teachers through connecting with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Although the students are getting benefit, they have more negatives by using the social media because they are addicted through spending more time for using social media. This addiction negatively affect the students in their academic life. In this view, the researcher has taken this study to examine the negative impact of social media on college students in Bangalore. This study sample size had covered 105 students studying in Commerce & Management Colleges in Bangalore. A well-structured questionnaire has been framed and distributed among the college students to collect their opinion towards negative impact of social media. The collected data were subdued into tables and charts with the help of the statistical package SPSS 22.0. Also, statistical tools such as Percentage Analysis, Mean Score Analysis. The results showed that most of students are 19 years old and mostly affected by the social media like twitter, instagram etc