期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
电子版ISSN：0975-9646
出版年度：2014
卷号：5
期号：5
页码：6333-6335
出版社：TechScience Publications
摘要：Mobile social network poses new challenges to the educational sector that needs careful understanding and approach to address. The aim of this paper is to assess the trend of mobile social networks usage among secondary schools student within Sokoto metropolis and how it affects their academic performance. The research was conducted in some selected secondary schools consisting of students aged 14 to 19. The experimental result shows our study revealed that, mobile social networks typically affects most of the student performance that are addicted to mobile social networking sites, especially those that cannot spend even a day without visiting the sites. This makes them to neglect most of their school activities based on the results of the questionnaire obtained in this study. Hence, the paper recommends that, mobile social network can be a very good tool for supporting learning activities to the students, provided there is appropriate guidance and monitoring from both parents and teachers.
关键词：Mobile social networks; Secondary schools;Academic performance; Students
