India is facing a transition period in the field of Information and Communication Technology, being the second largest populated country in the world, it is enforced to confront many diverse problems. The scope for accomplishing the... more
India is facing a transition period in the field of Information and Communication Technology, being the second largest populated country in the world, it is enforced to confront many diverse problems. The scope for accomplishing the complicity of the delinquent situations should be the priority in order to gain the highest benefit, out of any new innovations, and computer age is one of such type of feature, which gives us more productive out comes and also the negative out comes. Now a days, the student community is forced to use internet facilities to enhance their knowledge but many a times they get deviated and indulge in destructive activities, so, in order to find out the negative effects of social media, this study is conducted among higher secondary schools students using descriptive research methodology and purposive sampling method with the questionnaire for data collection and the research revealed that the age, gender, time spent in internet and the type of device used for internet were the predominate factors towards the negative impact of social media among higher secondary students.
