A study on academic achievement and mental health of students addicted to social networking sites

Using technology in communication3 has become a necessity; it is now part of our lives. People communicate through emails, faxes, Mobile phones, texting services, video conferences, video chart-rooms and social media channels. As time goes on, more emerging technologies will change the way we communicate and it will be up to us to embrace them or not. Now a day's communication became easier and cheaper. Social Networking Site (SNS) as the name itself suggests, is a basic platform for connecting people with different cultures, societies and different types of people living all over the world. In this modern era everybody is preoccupied by their works and it became difficult to meet each other personally, in this type of situation social networking sites has played a vital role in providing virtual platform like Skype, Twitter, Instagram, Whatsapp, video chatting connecting dear and far relatives and friends. Social networking sites are varied. They can incorporate a range of new information and communication tools, operating on desktops on laptops, and on mobile devices such as tablet computers and Smartphone. Every idea will have two aspects in the same way social networking sites also have positive and negative impacts. This subject is therefore under debate and under study in many countries and cultures.