The increasing development of media and social networks plays a great role in the development of human life and societies. The faster performance and low costs of transmitting messages has contributed to the influence and tendency of people towards the media. Therefore, the purpose of this paper was to explore the impact of social networks on the modernist political attitudes of students. This paper was conducted by the survey method using standard and established questionnaire between 361 individuals from Yasuj university students as the statistical sample, and data analysis was carried out by SPSS software. The modernist political attitudes of students were investigated in three aspects, namely a democratic political attitude, liberal political attitudes and critical political attitudes. The findings indicated a significant relationship between social networks and the modernist political attitudes of students. Thus, social networks could be referred as one of the factors influencing the modernist political attitudes.