As social media is progressively visible in South African higher education institution, facilitators utilize technology to facilitate and advance education as well as promote constructive learning. The purpose of this study is to examine the challenges of using online networking in education within the environment of South African higher education. It is considerable extra significant to comprehend the natural surroundings of technology in the progression of learning more than just a technology integration on its own. No matter in what way eye catching a recent technology can turn into, that recent technology is just an ordinary application that is utilized frequently to transmit learning material accessible on social media. Technology should never ever replace learning, but it will support learning processes, advance education effectiveness, and improve student education involvements. Students and lecturers should take advantage of a social media learning to make learning more manageable. Students feel comfortable to utilize the web applications that they already know. Social media applications are an open means, which also implies that they are open to unrestricted community. It is lecturers� responsibility to make sure this learning environment is safe for the best interest of student learning. It is also the obligation of lecturers to teach students and prepare them with logical and thoughtful abilities during the process of using social media means. A clever implementation of social media applications can involve students in collaborative learning, which is the strategy to an effective learning. However, the utilization of social media in teaching can occasionally be very challenging to lecturers. Students understands social media better so they can work cooperatively with their lecturers to make an online learning possible.\nKeywords: challenges, social media, higher education, teaching and learning.

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