SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN YAKURR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA

The study was set to determine the influence of social media on academic performance of secondary school students in Yakurr Local Government Area to achieve the above purpose, the researcher made use of survey research design and simple random sampling technique to select the respondents for the study. The research made use of primary source of data through the administration of questionnaire to 324 respondents. The instrument was titled “social media and academic performance of secondary school students in Yakurr”. The data generated were prepare through coding and scoring, and was used for testing all the hypotheses that directed the study. All results were tested using independent t-test statistics. The hypothesis revealed that social media involvement significantly difference between male and female students usage of social media and their academic performance; age had significant influence on the use of social media among students in secondary school and students’ exposure to social media had significant influence on students’ academic performance. It was therefore recommended amongst others that; students should avoid giving most of their time to the use of social medias. Hence, suggestions was raised for further studies.