Almost all freshmen have the latest model of smartphone with Internet connection and full with so many entertainment features. Most of them use their smartphone excessively at any place, time, and occasion. They event check on their smartphone during the lecture. It is not unusual several of them are even browsing websites or chatting on their smartphone while they are asking for help during faculty office hours. These behavior in the university environment could indicate that they would spend more time and effort in their daily live in accessing online information in the fear of missing out (FOMO) related interested information that are boiling among their peers.

This study aims to examine how freshmen students use and uncover the relationship between smartphone and social media addiction level to their academic progress. A questionnaire on what, how, frequency, and consequences such as feeling anxiety and depress because the excessive use of smartphone and social media will be conducted.