PARAPHRASE THE STATEMENT   Time  spent  on  social  media  is  positive  and  moderately  correlated  with  students'  academic  performance.  The  inferential  analysis  states  that  time  spent  on  social  media  is  insignificantly  associated  with  academic  performance.  The current  result  is  similar  to Mensah  and  Nizam  (2016) but  contradicts  with Laburi  et  al.  (2019).  The  results  of  one  way  ANOVA test shows that time spent on social media has a negative impact on students' academic performance. If students spend more time on social networking sites or social media it negatively impacts their academic results. Hence, the impact of students who have engaged less time in social media is that their academic results or performance are far better than those who engage more time in social media. This result is consistent with the previous studies (Celestine & Nonyelum, 2018; Owusu-Acheaw  &  Larson,  2015)who  also  found  that  time  spent  on  social  media  negatively  affect  students'  academic performance.

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Time  spent  on  social  media  is  positive  and  moderately  correlated  with  students'  academic  performance.  The  inferential  analysis  states  that  time  spent  on  social  media  is  insignificantly  associated  with  academic  performance.  The current  result  is  similar  to Mensah  and  Nizam  (2016) but  contradicts  with Laburi  et  al.  (2019).  The  results  of  one  way  ANOVA test shows that time spent on social media has a negative impact on students' academic performance. If students spend more time on social networking sites or social media it negatively impacts their academic results. Hence, the impact of students who have engaged less time in social media is that their academic results or performance are far better than those who engage more time in social media. This result is consistent with the previous studies (Celestine & Nonyelum, 2018; Owusu-Acheaw  &  Larson,  2015)who  also  found  that  time  spent  on  social  media  negatively  affect  students'  academic performance.

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