Effect of Social Media on Students' Academic Performance in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria: Social Media and Its Impact

Social media is a web-based service that gives individual the opportunity to create either a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, furthermore it’s add a list of others with which they share a connection, view their list of connections and those made within the system. Therefore, this study is aim at examining the impact of use of social networking on students’ academic performance in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. There is an increase of in used of social networking and some of the teachers in the department are raising the concern that when lectures is going some students are involved in social networking or sleeping. The teachers can’t verify their claim, because some student will argue that they are using the softcopy of the materials in the phones. The second hypothesis of the teachers concerning those sleeping during the lectures must have been spend time during the night socializing and so does not have enough rest. The necessity to carry out a research in that area to check mates the heavy users of social media, the time of day spend socializing and the purpose of the of social media of each students. In other to measure social media platforms a questionnaire was developed based on past literatures. The independent variables includes: time appropriateness, time duration, Nature of Usage and type of social networking, while the dependent variable is student CGPA. The sample of 130 students from Department of computer science was selected using convenient sampling method. The data collected was analyzed using description means python programming. Thus considering the abnormal use of Social networking platforms by students, it is expedient that Ahmadu Bello University educate their students to positively use these platforms for educational purposes which will eventually result in a positive impact on their academic performance.