Potentially Emerging Effects of Social Media on Students’ Education and Health

Abstract

The basic purpose of this research was to explore the emerging effects of social media on students’ – of age limits 14 – 21 years – education and health. For this purpose a sample of 380 students was selected on the basis of purposive sampling technique during the academic year 2019. Through a self-developed questionnaire, researchers collected data from different elementary to higher secondary schools’ students that were present on the day of data collection in their classes. It was found that WhatsApp, YouTube, FaceBook, Google+, and Instagram were the most popular websites or apps amongst the sampled students and they spent more than 4 hours in a day on different social media activities. Getting entertainment through these apps or websites was the basic purpose of using it. Social media is highly influenced on both education and health of both male and female students but students of early ages i.e., 14 – 17 years were greatly affected by it.