Effects of Social Networking Sites on Students

The present study focuses on the impact of Social Networking Sites on the students which is based on secondary data taken from various studies done by different reseachers in the context of change in behavior patterns and academic performance of students due to the use of social networking sites. Now a days social networking sites has become popular among students and they gets effected by excessively using it. There is need to take some steps to saved students from adverse effects of using social networking sites.The findings of the below study revealed that on the one side social networking sites is boon for students because they using it for enhancing their knowledge, for connecting friends and teachers etc. but on the other side social networking sites adversely effected their studies causing lower grades, loss of concentration, time wastage promoting grammerly errors while chatting and class buncking etc. Parents should keep on watch their children's online activities so that they remain safe by using social networking sites and dont waste their precious time on useless activities