%0 Conference Paper
%A Nkordeh,  Nsikan
%A Oni, O.O.
%A Olowononi, Felix
%A Bob-Manuel, Ibinabo
%B World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science
%C San Francisco, USA
%D 2017
%F eprints:11611
%K Social media, reading culture, education
%T Impact of Social Media on The Reading Culture of Nigerian Youths; Is the Social Media platform providing an Alternative Source of Education?
%U http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/11611/
%X The Social Media is a group of online communication channels that allow individuals, groups, governments, organizations, and companies etc. to share information, ideas and express their selves via virtual networks sites like Facebook, Twitter, linked in, Instagram but to name a few. They have all succeeded in connecting Nigerian youths so that they have been able to share information and connect with each other without any boundaries. The purpose of this term paper is to analyze the impact of social media on the reading habits of Nigerian youths and also determine if it is providing an alternative source of education, this is due to the fact that issues have risen concerning the its effects on the reading culture of Nigerian youths due to the fact that recent statistics has shown that there has been a rapid decline in the reading culture of Nigerian students. Youths tend to spend their time online chatting, posting selfies, keeping up in the latest entertainment news and exhibiting celebrity mania and all this tends to have a negative impact in their reading culture. However, the upside to all this is that it can be an alternative source of education with the introduction of web based technologies, e-learning facilities, online encyclopedias and blogs which have immensely helped in serving as an alternative to education amongst Nigerian youths though research also shows only a few actually use them for educational purposes. The authors concluded that even though the social media has a negative impact on the reading culture of our youths, it also provides an alternative source of education but most Nigerian youths are not making full use of these opportunities and this has to be rectified by creating an awareness on its benefits.