Social Media Usage by Library and Information Study Undergraduate Students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba- Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria

The study intends to investigate the use of social media among undergraduate students of LIS. A questionnaire was designed to collect responses from the respondents of the survey. The questionnaire was distributed among 140 undergraduate students of Library and Information Science pursuing education at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko. It finds that the majority of the respondents make use of social media on a daily basis. The greater numbers of respondents are accustomed with the use of the frontline social media like Facebook. The major hardware used is the mobile phone, while the purpose of social media use is interactions with colleagues. Respondents agreed to the fact that distraction was the major challenge. The study recommends that students should not be so much addicted to social media which may in turn put adverse effect on their studies and hence they should exercise self-control as far as possible.