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Benefits:
Social Media is defined as ‘Digital media and technologies for social interaction, communication, and creation and exchange of user-generated content’ According to Marion Gruber, there are benefits to using social media in education. These benefits include the facilitating of and focus on the faculties of networking, interaction, communication, sharing information, collaboration, participation, and knowledge management. Other benefits frequently cited by scholars include the potential to "bridge formal and informal learning through participatory digital cultures", as well as promoting engagement. Main features of social media might benefit the development of teaching learning process. Through internet and social media can gather useful scientific information for their assignments or projects. Teachers role is not only to disseminate knowledge but also help learners know how to learn himself.

(a) Social Media acts as the channel of communication: Effective communication between teachers and students are very important. "If no proper communication between teacher and students is available, both teaching and learning will become difficult " Media channels like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube can enhance communication enormously among students themselves, professors and staffs.

(b) Media tools engage students: Students engage themselves maximum of their time in music, movies, newsfeeds, games through different media platforms. Using Google classroom or Google apps learners can explore significant resources and can save time, money and space. "the dynamic and participatory nature of many social media resources could be used to engage or re-engage bored or shy students"

(c) Social Media enhance collaboration: Another significant benefit is that media foster collaboration, it means working together intellectually and socially to achieve certain goal. According Ingram and Hathorn, collaboration critically means participation, interaction and synthesis; Wikipedia is the best example of it.

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Scholars such as Marion Gruber have stated that there are multiple benefits to using social media in education, which includes the facilitating of and focus on the faculties of networking, interaction, communication, sharing information, collaboration, participation, and knowledge management. Other benefits frequently cited by scholars include the potential to "bridge formal and informal learning through participatory digital cultures", as well as promoting engagement. Caren Casama Orlanda-Ventayen and Randy Joy Magno Ventayen have opined that social media could benefit from its use in education, as it could positively impact its main features. They also felt that teachers could use social media and the Internet to gather information for their assignments and projects, as they see the teachers should not only disseminate knowledge but also help students learn how to learn. Other arguments made as to the potential benefits of incorporating social media into education included the potential for effective communication between teachers and students, the media tools engaging students in a dynamic and participatory way, and social media enhancing collaboration.