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Technological advancements have made our lives easy and comfortable. Social media is amongst the most important development in the field of Web technology. This platform has considerably improvised over years. Social media become peremptory in fostering conventional classroom teaching. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc. are being utilized by more than half of the population, it gives us the opportunity to stay connected. We cannot ignore the use of social media as it has become an integral part of our daily life and hence it is impossible to keep it away or ignore its importance in the educational sector, even educators today are taking leverage of this platform for enhancing and improvising the process of teaching and learning. The study is descriptive in nature. It aims at finding out the differences in making the use of social media by the teachers keeping in mind their age, gender, and marital status and if they consider social media of any use in the education sector. The population of the study comprises 66 teachers of higher education. A survey was conducted and collection of data was done by the means of a questionnaire. The questionnaire used was highly structured in nature. The responses received from the respondents revealed that social media holds a place in the field of education.