The investigation of social media impact on youth writing skill

Abstract

All over the world, social media influence peoples' life in many aspects including education. The Algerian society is not an exception since Facebook, Instagram and other social media are more and more used. The present dissertation aims at analysing the impact of social media on the writing performance of students (A case study of LMD 1 arabic students of Yahia Fares university in Medea). To achieve this 34 questionnaires were given. Additionally, some students' conversations on Facebook and other social media were observed. The results obtained were analysed and revealed that most students view that texting impact their writing according to some major reasons like gaining time, facilitate the process of writing or sometime using it unconsciously. To sum up, the research recommended that social media should be created for educational purposes in order to create balance between social media and academic activities of students.