Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 7, Issue 4, DIP: 18.01.025/20190704 DOI: 10.25215/0704.025 http://www.ijip.in | October- December, 2019 © 2019, K Porwal, T K Sharma; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Effect of social media on memory among teenagers Khushboo Porwal 1 *, Dr. Tarun Kumar Sharma 2 ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to show the Effects of Social media on memory among Teenagers. Our main Aim of this study is to show the harmful effects of Social media on memory and cognitive functioning of Teenagers. In this study, we utilized a total sample of 120 students (60 Boys and 60 girls) of age group of 20 to 23 years, from Udaipur, Rajasthan. Our hypothesis was that “There will be a significant effect of Social Media on the memory of Boys and Girls.” This hypothesis was based on some previous re search and review of literature. Data analysis by Mean, SD, and t-test were used and data was conducted by the Institute of Medical Education and Research Memory Scale (PGI) by Dwarika Pershad and Narendra Nath Wig and Social media self-prepared questionnaire. Results supported that mostly the college-going students spent their most of time on Social media and due to this their memory and cognitive functioning are intensely affected and by this we can prove that there is an intense relationship between Social Media and Memory. Keywords: Social Media, Memory In today’s dynamic world, the upcoming generation is widely affected by social media. Social Media affects the teenagers and new generation both directly and indirectly, and is affecting their mental level, their behavior, thinking, and social nature. Today’s teenager’s behavior and thinking are totally changed as an effect of Social media. Social media has both positive as well as the negative impact on the new generation, which mainly include the cognitive functioning of teenagers and it also includes memory, attention, and learning and perception power. Various social media includes Facebook, Twitter, What’s App, Television, Online Gaming, online chatting and many more. Today mostly teenagers are spending most of their time on Social media which directly affects their memory, now a day’s children mostly do not remember many small things as they are mostly concentrated on social media which diverts their mind from other important things, and because of these children’s attention, perception power and attention tends to be weak. It is also affecting the learning capacity or the new generation, as the mind of teenagers is always diverted, children mostly so not remember other important things. Major impact of this is that it is affecting teenagers cognitive functioning and making him less social. Nowadays the children instead of sitting in 1 Research scholar, Dept. of Psychology, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan) India 2 Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan) India *Responding Author Received: September 4, 2019; Revision Received: December 4, 2019; Accepted: December 25, 2019