The social and academic impact of using the smart phones on the university youth.

This study aimed to identify the places and the time where the member’s sample from the university youth uses the smart phones, the main reasons and motivations of the use of the university youth for the smart phones, and what are the main social impacts applied on a sample consisting of 200 male and female students from cairo university, and the study concluded that the sample’s members uses their smart phones in the waiting times, then before they go to sleep, and after they wake up from their sleep, and the main reasons of the use of the university youth of the smart phones is the enjoyment and the entertainment, then because it is easy-used, then because it is a decent social appearance to show it to people, as the study has proved thatone of the main positive social impacts that happens to the university youth as a result from using their smart phones is to approximate the distances between the user and others, and one of the main negative social impacts was that it is easy to spread the rumors and circulating it, and the most featured positive academic impact of the use of the university youth for the smart phones was that the smart phones education was more useful than the traditional way, then using the smart phones to access learning resources as easily as the digital library. Also, one of the main negative academic impacts was that the user was preoccupied with continuing his studies. The study recommended the necessity of conducting comprehensive awareness programs for university youth about the use of their smart machines and working on spreading the correct electronic culture among different society’s group, especially youth people.