A Critical Analysis on Negative Impact of Social Media on College Students in Bangalore South, Bangalore

Social media plays an important role in people’s lives. It also observed a remarkable 
and quickprogress in technology in the world because of the large number of people
who wake-up every morning to check with their social accounts instead of reading
the newspaper. The usage of social media is not limited only to professionals also
it is been widely used in educational sectors by the students. The increasing usage
of social media has far reaching influence on Social Interaction, Entertainment and
Academic improvement among students.Social media helps to acquire knowledge
through establishing communication with other students and teachers through
connecting with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Although the students are
getting benefit, they have more negatives by using the social media because they
are addicted through spending more time for using social media. This addiction
negatively affect the students in their academic life. In this view, the researcher
has taken this study to examine the negative impact of social media on college
students in Bangalore. This study sample size had covered 105 students studying in
Commerce & Management Colleges in Bangalore. A well-structured questionnaire
has been framed and distributed among the college students to collect their opinion
towards negative impact of social media. The collected data were subdued into
tables and charts with the help of the statistical package SPSS 22.0. Also, statistical
tools such as Percentage Analysis, Mean Score Analysis. The results showed that
most of students are 19 years old and mostly affected by the social media like twitter,
instagram etc.