Influence and Importance of Social e-App’s for King Khalid University Students on Academic Performance in the Digital Epoch

Abstract

Social electronic Applications (Social e-App's) were generally created as a networking tool but Social Networking Apps (SNApp) and Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have been broadly adopted by pupils as a potential resource in academic communications. Today, students are being habituated to the usage of SNApp and hence they continuously engage in non-academic activities. This study delineates the consequence of wide utilization of SNApps on the pupils’ academic performance as well as enumerates how these SNApps affected their devotion to studies. Since the regular practice of SNApp has affected their performance, there is a serious necessity to direct students to use similar technologies which only support classroom works. SNApp was initially developed as a networking communication tool but has become so much more. It is never realized that "how much time the students have spent on social media" and "How many hours, minutes and seconds they have spent on checking messages or scrolling through all followers' pictures on these Apps". The research explores how the Social e-App influences the pupils’ academic performance centered on a comparative scrutiny between the Indian and KKU (Saudi Arabia)students.