ABSTRACT
This study investigated the consequences of excessive browsing of social media and its implications on the educational system a case study of some selected secondary schools in Abeokuta South Local Government Area.This study used quantitative approach and probability sampling. In the data collection methods questionnaire was used. This study was conducted in Ogun state Nigeria and the two schools which were studied are Lantoro High School and Abeokuta Girls High school. 20 students from each school to make a total of 60 students, this was done so as to minimize the possibility of sampling errors. The study analyzed data by using Microsoft Excel and present data by using bar chart, pie chart and tables. This study observes that students do not spend too much time in social media networks compared to their academic schedules. The findings of the study showed that WhatsApp is the most frequently used soedcial media followed by Facebook, Twitter Instagram and other social media. The findings of this study showed that most reason which pushes students to use social media networks is talking to their friends on different issues rather than studying. This shows that most students like to chat rather than studying. It is recommended that social media users must ensure they understand why they are joining the social media site in the first place so that they would not be overcome by any negative impacts but rather they can use these sites for maximum benefit.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
Reading is one of the oldest habits of human civilization. It has been the passion of the greatest personalities of all times. One of the first documentary sources for reading was manuscript, however, accessible only to the elite class of society. Later, the arrival of the Gutenberg printing press ended such discrimination by making the printed word available to all the Gutenberg printing press brought drastic changes to the fundamentally oral society of the day. It was certainly a great jump in the humanity’s onward march to the reading society.
The emergence of the excessive browsing of social media has created an extraordinary change in the educational system. It has made its existence, fully or partially, in the reading is no longer confined to the print reading. The scope of reading sources has changed drastically in the social media revolution to include websites, webpages, e-books, e-journals, chatrooms e-papers email, discussion boards, instant messaging, blogs wikis, and other multimedia documents. Now the potential reader can access and browse the online information from the whole web while using his/her terminal at home. The hypertext and hypermedia technologies allow the e-readers to go from one page to another by selecting links in various directions popularly known as surfing. The term surfing of internet was first used by Jean Armourpolly in
