Use and Impact of Social Networking Sites among the Students and Research Scholars of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam: A Survey

The 21st century is widely known as the networking age which is an age of internet where almost everything is available on World Wide Web(WWW). The advances in the WWW have tremendously changed the way how people access information and communicate with one another. Social networking tools have become popular among the students for resource sharing. End number of users are connecting globally through Social Networking Sites (SNSs) as a medium for communicating, entertainment, news and updates, information etc which serve as a platform to be used by users to retrieve their respective objective. The study primarily focuses on finding out the opportunities provided by SNSs as well as the benefits received by the students and research scholars of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam.