Social Media Participation Patterns among Teenagers and adolescents: The Study of Secondary School Students

The topic of statements is to explain the advantageous and dis-advantageous effects of social media on the education. Here the data has been collected from six schools of Cachar district, extreme remote corner of India. The schools were selected from both urban and rural areas, co-educational, boys only, girls? only, English and Bengali medium and Govt. and private schools. The research emphasizes the influence of social media both in educational and amusement purposes among the student. The research covers the socio- economic structure and the social media use pattern of the samples. To end, the chapter highlights the findings that most of the students used social media for their development, but a significant portion of students use social media for time killing.