Social Media And Academic Performance Of Students In Benson Idahosa University

ABSTRACTThe main objective of this research project is to examine the extent to which students in tertiary institutions in Benson Idahosa University (BIU) engage themselves in social media platforms and the relationship between the level of usage of social media applications and platforms and student academic performance in the University. To this end, structured copies of 400 questionnaires were administered to conveniently selected students within the University campus in order to collate data for the purpose of achieving the research objectives.It was discovered that students’ degree of inv…