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Social Media has become tremendously important and the usage of it will have a positive and negative impact on students’ lives. Academic fatigue is one of the common issues that happened due to the excessive use of social media among students. Therefore, this study will discuss the relationship between academic fatigue and social media usage among university students. Besides, this study will also investigate the impact of social media on students’ lives in Malaysia. Appropriate steps that should be taken by individuals and institutions will be discussed as well in order to educate the healthy use of social media among the student. A quantitative method was chosen in this study and questionnaires were distributed by using an online platform to 202 respondents. The findings reveal that 63.1 percent of respondents strongly agree they use social media for the purpose of entertainment and 43.8 percent of respondents strongly agree that procrastinating daily work and failing to manage time is a negative effects of social media on students' daily lives. Therefore, the appropriate steps that have been discussed in this article should be taken seriously by students and educational institutions to promote the healthy use of social media.
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