The study aimed to identify the excessive use of social media networks and its relationship to the value system among students of the College of Social Sciences at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University. To achieve this goal, the descriptive approach (correlational and comparative), the scale of excessive use of social media networks and the scale of value system among university students were used. The study was applied to students of the College of Social Sciences at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, their number reached (368) male and female students. The study concluded that there is a direct positive relationship between the excessive use of social media networks and the students’ value system. It also concluded that there are no differences in the use of social media networks and the value system among students of the College of Social Sciences at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University according to the variable of (gender). The results also revealed the inability to predict the use of social media networks through the value system among students of the College of Social Sciences at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University.

Keywords: excessive use, social media networks, value system, Saudi universities.