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  • Social media is frequently used among university students for several purposes. Students find that social media as a soruce of social support for academic purpose. Some researches state that social media can enhance students' interest to engage in academic tasks. On the other hand, frequency of social media engagement is assumed to be related with students' self regulated learning. Students who have long duration in accessing social media will have difficulty in controlling social media use. This current research aims to explore social media engagement among university students and its effect on their self regulated learning. Subjects are 180 psychology students and data were collected using social media engagement questionaire and self regulated learning strategy scale. Results show that most of subjects using social media related to relationship and getting inforn:ation regarding academic tasks. Refer to the result, students should get more guidance in using social media more for academic tasks.