Effect of Social Network Sites on Students’ Academic Performance in Secondary Schools, Hargeisa Somaliland

ABSTRACT : A social networking site is an online platform that allows users to create a public profile and interact with other users on the website. The emergence of Social Networking Sites has broadened the base of contact, interaction, and communication among people living around the globe via the internet. Millions of students are logging in to these social networking sites, every day. That’s why many students have been blaming various social networking sites for their steady decrease in grade point averages which has affected their study time, poor grammar, and wrong spellings when socializing on social media as well as diverting their attention from their studies. The objective of this research is to find the Effect of Social Network Sites on Students’ Academic Performance in Secondary Schools, Hargeisa Somaliland. A quantitative research design was conducted among 4 Secondary schools, two public secondary high schools (SHS), and two private SHS. These are 26 June Secondary School, Mohamoud A. Ali Secondary School, Noradin Secondary School, and Ilays Secondary School. A well-structured questionnaire was prepared and which were distributed among students using the probability sampling technique (random number table). Finally, a simple linear regression was calculated to predict the effect of social networks sites (SNS) on students’ academic performance. There was a significant effect of Social Network Sites on students’ academic performance.

KEYWORDS : Academic performance, Secondary Schools, Social networking sites