The Vices of Social Media on Students Success at the Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola-Nigeria

Social media and social networking web sites have continued to gain supremacy in determining the student's success in education. It captures the attention of students and their tutors over the years. A social media network is only an electronic links amongst its users which turned out to be a habit for students, youngsters, and even the grown person. The influence of social media on students is alarming and doing more harm than good. The aim of the paper is to analyze the vices of social media on the academic success of students of Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola. The survey method of research was adopted to achieve the objectives of the study. Some research questions were presented to the respondents where the results revealed that so many (96 percent of them) usually spent much time on the social networking sites than to their academics. As such, the academic success of the students suffers setbacks which lead to poor performance in the student's academics. It is therefore recommended that the networking sites should be built in such a way to support student's educational activities in a positive way, as this will help in attracting the students to get acquitted in their quest for good academic success.