Social media is an important tool to communicate with people, share task, information, evaluate, and interpret the events for everyone at the present era. The absolute and adverse effects of social media on student’s academics and habits were explored in this study. A sample of 300 respondents was taken through multi stage sampling technique. Data were collected from three universities, located in Faisalabad, Pakistan. A well prepared Interview schedule was designed to get required data. The results highlighted that majority of students spend up to 6 hours per day on Social networking sites, which affected their scholarly achievements and resulted in frustration, tension, aggression. Their quality time and academic routine also interrupted, which finally resulted in drooping grades, poor physical and mental health. The current studyincreases the awareness to prevent the excess use of social media and suggests that there must be check and balance by parents on their children. Educational institutes and government should equally take steps to aware students about the positive and negative effects of social media.

Effect of Social Media, Social Network,Students, Academic Performance