Social Media Usage, Addiction and Its Impact on Academic Performance Among Students: A Narrative Review

Abstract

The increasing usage of social media platforms among youth is a developing worry, and their usage of social media may negatively impact their academic performance, social life, and mental health. Social media networks are known for its access to knowledge because of the amazing advancements in technology. Such platforms also pave way for the youth to be influenced way too much. This takes a toll on their psychological and physiological health. The young people take them up a notch in changing their physical appearance and manipulating their surroundings to the standards of social media appearance. This paper attempts to comprehensively examine the multifaceted impact on academic performance by meticulously going over the existing literature that currently exists about the relationship between social media use and addiction of social media, this paper is purely on the basis of second-hand information from various studies conducted. The paper also attempts to provide future recommendations for the improvement of the youth’s academic performance with the adaptations to the emergence of new technologies.