ABSTRACT
The main objective of the research was to determine how the main virtual social networks are used in times of Covid-19 by university students. The research has been developed under the positivist paradigm framed in the quantitative approach, with a descriptive design. A 28-item questionnaire was prepared on the use of virtual social networks (RSV) in times of Covid-19 (adapted by the group of researchers), which was applied to a sample of 474 students from 10 public and private universities in the country. The results allow us to show that the vast majority of students (82.5%) have access to the internet from home and of these, 67.9% of students connect to the internet through their cell phone for a space 3 to 6 hours in the vast majority of cases. Regarding the use of virtual social networks, we can affirm that all students make use of some of them, most notably WhatsApp. And that of the virtual social networks that are most used in academic use is WhatsApp followed by YouTube.