The Impact of Social Media on College Students Over time, social media addiction in college students around the world has become a serious problem. Not only is there an addiction, but school grades are also severely affected. If this problem continues to be neglected, statistics will show that college students' grades will deteriorate further. Three billion people around the world use at least one form of social media sites. Of these three billion, half are between 18 and 29 years old. Introducing regulations and making sure students don't access social media sites as frequently is how social media addiction will be solved. In today's society, very few recognize that social media is an addiction because, as previously stated, approximately fifty percent of users log into Facebook daily to begin with. Therefore, no one is trying to make changes to Facebook's usage policies or how college students have made social media an addiction. Social behavior expert Megan Sponcil of Youngstown State University in Ohio states that "about 57% of social network users are between the ages of 18 and 29 and have a personal profile on multiple social media sites" (4 ). The statistic highlighted by Sponcil shows that young people between 19 and 28 are the ones most affected by social media addiction. Poor performance in class and a severe addiction will continue if this addiction is not stopped. Social media addiction did not become a real problem until the creation of the multi-billion dollar social networking site MySpace by UCLA graduate Tom Anderson in August 2019. 2003. Since then, the social networking sites Facebook have been created , LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram and they are all billion-dollar companies that are... at the heart of the paper... ged Research." Journal Of Law, Medicine & Ethics 41.2 (2013): 470-83. Web. November 25 2013.Parks, Peggy J. Current Issues: Online Social Networking Np: Current Issues: Online Social Networking, 2011. Np SIRS Issues Researcher Web November 25, 2013. Ramage, John D., John C. Bean, and June Johnson." Part 6 Writing Topics: A Rhetoric with Readings 9th ed. Pearson Learning Solutions." +. Print.Sponcil, Megan, and Priscilla Gitimu. "College Students' Social Media Use: Relationship to Communication and Self-Concept Journal of Technology Research 4 (2013): 1-13." Academic Research Completed. Network. November 25, 2013.Turan, Zeynep. "Reasons for College Students' Lack of Use of Social Networking Sites." Scientific Journal of Media Education 21.41 (2013): 137-45 completed. Network. November 25. 2013.