Social media is a form of interactive media by which users can communicate with each other through posts, content, photos, and videos, message boards, forums, blogs, Facebook, twitter and YouTube are all forms of social media. It has an effect on school students language reading habit.
Most empirical studies dealt with the relations between using social networking and academic performance.These studies showed mixed results with regard to the impact of social networks on academic performance. Studies have found that the participation of students on social networks may have both positive and negative impacts on their academic performance or learning. Access or no access of students to social media and social networking sites; its nature, use, frequency and purpose do play a tremendous role in school students second language reading habit.
In today's world social media has become a great teacher and is a focal socializing agency for learners.
Social media is a double-edged weapon. It has a positive effect when it offers a large amount of information that is at students' fingertips at any time in any place. However, this proliferation of information may disrupt students' attention and create an environment that is characterized by distraction and multitasking