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Social media is a popular trend today, especially among students. The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of social media on academic performance among the Higher Secondary students and find out the association between the impact of social media on academic performance and selected socio demographic variables. In this study, non experimental descriptive design method was adopted for collecting and analyzing the data. A 100 numbers of sample were collected by using systematic random sampling method. A self-structured tool was developed to collect information and analysis was done by using Inferential and descriptive analysis. The results show that majority (70%) had moderate impact, 21% had mild impact and 9% had severe impact on academic performance and there is no association between the impact of social media and selected socio-demographic variables. There is an impact of social media on academic performance of the students.