Abstract

The objective of this study is to determine the effect of social media on language pollution among students of the Deanship of Preparatory Programs at Imam Muhammad Bin Saud University. In order to achieve this goal, the researcher identified the concept of linguistic pollution, its classifications and reasons, And the researcher built a questionnaire included (8) items are: linguistic pollution in general, and the pollution of the hybrid, and pollution, and verbal pollution, and synthetic pollution, and the pollution of semantic, and spelling pollution, and public pollution, And then the researcher applied the questionnaire to (200) students of the Deanship of preparatory programs at the University of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic, and found that the study that the impact of social media in part on the linguistic contamination in the sample study.