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Social media has modernized the way we outlook ourselves, the way we perceive others and the way we mingle with the world around us. Although social media has many positive proposals, including advancing consciousness of specific causes, advertising businesses and encouraging friendships between individuals who may have never met without social networking, its uncontrollable usage can also lead to negative inferences. In the present era of technological and communication advancement, it is essential that each one of us should spend some time to analyze the unconstructive implications of online social media usage on the human experience. The exceeding usage of social media has become a global crisis impacting all generations, and if not controlled, this can lead to severe social concerns. In this digitized world, people of various age groups like to spend a lot of time on social media for personal, professional as well as irrelevant deeds. Since the acceptance and popularity of social media sites endlessly grows, networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc. continue to evolve. At this context, here, the paper tries to give an insight on the significance of social media and the influence of Online Social Networking (OSN) on the generations of current epoch at various levels. The paper concludes by mentioning a few health issues related to over usage of social media and also by analyzing the presence of OSN as a boon or bane.