University students were able to benefit from modern technology in all fields with what is new and useful for them, in addition to the fact that modern technology because of its positives and negatives as well, and that students are the most affected by it, including addiction to its use and exposure to immoral materials and psychological damage, and all this works to change their tendencies and attitudes, and the students’ dependence on modern technology in light of the continuous development in various fields of life, and then this dependence becomes a daily behavior for university students, in addition to the excessive influence of that technology on their thinking patterns, although social networking sites is somewhat new in our societies, but the speed of its spread and ease of access to it, whether from the publisher or the reader, made it the fastest media medium in terms of spread in the whole world, and the most used by members of society, especially university students, and our research deals with the trends of university youth for this kind of technology through the extent to which they follow up on social issues through electronic newspapers in light of their competition for social networking sites.