ABSTRACT

Since “Randy Conradz” built the first pillar of social networking sites by developing the first site to communicate with his friends and classmates which he named “classmates.com”, the social networking sites have become popular among the university students as it succeeded in presenting itself as an interactive, unique and useful media at different levels of educational work on the web since its inception, and in the light of what we mentioned above there emerged a desire to know the effectiveness of using social networks to support the process of acquisition of knowledge in King Abdul Aziz University.