EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA: INFLUENCE OF POPULAR MUSIC ON NIGERIAN YOUTHS

Abstract

The social media, as progressive as it has contributed to the development of man, has brought with it certain problems to humanity and the youths in particular. Most youths believe that their sentimental attachment to social media is the fact that it provides an escape from daily stress. Music, being arguably the most direct and personal medium of leisure and enjoyment, has proven itself to be a diversion from the tedium of work, This paper is focused on the implications popular music derived through the social media on the learning attitudes of Nigerian youths. The paper adopts survey and library search as its methodology and it is anchored on moralist theory since every human society is built on the principles of morality. It concludes by recommending governmental censoring of lyrical content of musical compositions which go into the internet while urging music composers to produce musical compositions that applaud the social values and norms of Nigerian society.