In this modern era of technological advancements, teaching-learning activities along with counseling get privileged with the use of information communication technology for enriching the quality. In this concern, social media has played a significant role in teaching and taught interaction, especially in the field of distance education. Study habits play an important role in distance learning. However, it is difficult to understand the level of study habits on the part of distance learners. The main objectives of this study were to ascertain the study habits of distance learners with and without social media-based counseling and compare the result. It has also tried to compare study habits of distance learners with respect to their gender and discipline of study. About 80 distance students were taken as a sample of the study. The post-test-only experimental design was taken as methodology. It was found that the study habits of students gone through social media-based counseling were high in comparison to traditional counseling. It is also found that there exists no significant difference between male and female distance learners with respect to their study habits. A similar result was also obtained for their discipline of study. It is evident from the study that there exist strong correlations between learners' access to social media and their study habits. It is suggested that distance education institutions must encourage social media-based counseling for their learners in order to enhance their study habits.