This study sought to determine how students of Komenda College of Education in the Central Region of Ghana use social media. The motivation of the study was to find out the extent to which students use them, the reasons why they use them and whether social media is having a positive impact or otherwise on students. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select respondents. A total of 160 students took part in the study. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from respondents. The study revealed that majority of the respondents (97.5 %) use social media. It was also found that, students use social media for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to the following: 1) to keep in touch with family and friends, to share information among themselves, and to keep abreast with both local and international current affairs among other things. Most respondents however indicated that they do not use social media for pornography, hacking and cybercrime.