USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES BY UNDERGRADUATES IN RELATION TO THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are quite famous among the college students. And there are researches going on about their effect on the students especially on their academic achievement. This research tried to understand whether the academic achievement of the low users of SNSs and high users of SNSs differed and whether the time spent on the SNSs and the overall academic achievements are correlated. Results shown that academic achievement of the both groups doesn’t differ significantly and correlation between the SNSs usage and academic achievement was also found to be insignificant