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Social Networking has become one of the most important parts of our daily life as it enables us to communicate with a lot of people. Social Networking sites are created to assist in online networking. By using the internet and social media for academic purposes, students learn much more than they can in a classroom and their ability to access, analyze, retain and share information improve dramatically. The use and overuse or misuse of the social networking sites undergoes serious discussions at different levels. So it is necessary to analyze the opinion of educationists like, Teacher Educators on the influence of Social Networking Sites in Collaborative Learning in Computer Networks. For this 50 teacher educators were selected. The findings showed that most of the teacher educators believe that Social Networking Sites improve the quality of education; Majority of the teacher educators enquire to the students about the sites used by them. From this study, it is urgent that Awareness programs in computer network based education should be conducted in Training colleges and teacher educators should create blog, websites and encourage collaborative learning through social media. Teachers and teacher trainees should be given training for the above said purpose.