Social media is ‘the relationship that exist between network of people’(Walter and Riviera, 2004).Also Martin(2008) views social media as YouTube ,Facebook ,Myspace ,WhatsApp ,Twitter , Instagram , anything that one can use to share valid messages .University students tend to use the social media for different kind of things .Social media have positive impact on the learning of university students such as information sharing, socialisation and other factors to be outlined in the below presentation, though negativity will always be there on any object and this impact is triggered due to excess use of the social media leading to addiction, laziness, concentration degradation on school work and many other impacts to be stated below.
Social media has become pervasive, impacting the social fabric of our society and changing the nature of social relationship in human’s .Social media on university students learning has impact as studies have viewed that 95% of the students usually rely on internet services as it can be reliable and efficient to a certain extent. For instance students at Great Zimbabwe University (who reside by riverside lodge) demanded for WIFI installation as they wanted to surf through the internet some for learning purpose as there are located far from the library and some for social media bringing out the interrelationship of these two facts.
According to Wang, Chen and Liang (2011) , university students learning has been greatly influenced by social media as the social media has given the university students access to information .For example a student can always surf for information on the internet or research his/her assignment question on the web on websites such as www.ask.com . This will help students learning be easy as he/she can grasp an idea of what the assignment topic wants .Also the above scholars have outlined that social media provides