Impact of social media on students’ writing skills in Federal College of Forestry, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.

Abstract

Social media has emerged as one of the most vital communication means but the time spent chatting has significantly affected the way; many students write in the school environment. This study is aimed at investigating the impact of social media on students’ writing skills in the Federal College of Forestry, Jos, Plateau State situated in the North Central geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Consequently, the objectives are to identify the social media networks; students are more exposed to and the hours spent, determine the words that students often used in writing on social media, and determine how social media affects students your writing skills. The research design is descriptive and utilized structured questionnaires and observation techniques to obtain primary data from eighty-nine (89) students from the national diploma (ND) and higher ND departments in the college as sample size for the study. Findings revealed that students who invest more energy in online networking are liable to write poorly in their scholarly exercises than the individuals who do not. The study recommends that students should stop the use of abbreviations and wrongly spelled words while typing and chatting on social media so they can write proper spellings of words.