The Impact Of Social Media On College Students

If employers are looking for a particular segment like graduate students to be the face of their organization, they would need to considerate whether or not to use the social media because many college students goes on parties and they have fun while they are in school, but some of them don’t realize the impact a photo can make when they are looking for a job after they graduate.“College students sometimes post questionable photographs and provocative comments about their alcohol consumption, recreational drug use, and sexual exploits” (Weathington, & Bechtel, 2012, p.

College looking on social media to determine whether or not they want someone attending their university.

October of this year, students of American University experienced a new sense of racial tension on campus and specifically online. The emergence of Yik Yak, an app specializing in anonymous, localized postings, created an unseen directness of extreme thought, in which Washington D.C’s American University encountered. Different “yaks” seen throughout this community alluded to sensitive topics such as the 3/5ths compromise and the KKK, all notoriously known wrongdoings of American people. I argue that these kinds of comments would not be made if the setting would be instead a face-to-face conversation or if it was, it would be distastefully received. The medium of social media allows for harsher and more blatantly offensive comments to be made without direct consequence or judgement. Susan Svrluga describes this cause of racial tensions through her article, Students Take Racist Comments and Spread Them All Over Campus. Media and technology allow for a barrier to be built between oneself and direct consequences or criticism in which may arise, thus fostering an environment that facilitates racist commentary and action. The concept of this barrier is demonstrated through the Yik Yak posts at American University as well as specific online dating websites, twitter posts and televised performances.

Students mostly use slang words or shortened forms of words on social networking sites. They start relying on the computer grammar and spelling check features. This reduces their command over the language and their creative writing skills.

Are we becoming less human with the passing of each day? Have we become too dependent on technology, specifically social media? In this day and age, people have different views on social media. They question its true purpose and its effect on society as a whole. With that said, although there are many thoughts concerning the topic/trend of social media something that is undoubtedly true is that social media plays an active role in the lives of the majority of people. Whether in a positive or negative way, social media influences the lives of all people. However this paper focuses on the effect of social media on college students. It addresses both the positive and negative effects of social media on those in college; focusing on a student’s academic efficiency, social interactive skills, and overall productivity.

Facebook is another application which uses functions of Web 2.0 for communication. Facebook itself focuses on the effect of Collaboration between users. The application of Facebook has made it subsequently effective and simple for people within different countries and cities to share personal information about themselves and their hobbies and it also allows them to keep in contact with people they have added. Facebook enables people to add their friends easily effectively and allows users to decide which information they want to share with specific users.

The topic of social media is a very interesting one because everyone has different opinions about it. Social media can be seen as an extremely positive thing if used in the correct way, but if not some believe it can negatively effect human beings communication skills. This topic is further discussed in the following sources: “Living Within Social Media” by Steven Krause, “What I Didn 't Write about when I Wrote About Quitting Facebook” by Michael Erard, “What It Means Today To Be ‘Connected’” by Lucy P. Marcus, “Facebook and Relationships: A Study of How Social Media Use is Affecting Long-Term Relationships” by Rianne C. Farrugia, “When Social Media isn’t Social: Friends’ Responsiveness to Narcissists on Facebook” by Mina Choi, “Facebook use, envy, and depression among college students: Is facebooking depressing?” by Edson Tandock Jr., and Qingya Wang, Chen Wei, and Liany Yu’s artcile “The Effects of Social Media on College Students”. Although they all talk about social media they go about it in very different ways and focus on different aspects of the topic. Krause’s writing focuses more on how people have stopped living their lives and think life can be found on a computer while Erard writes more on how if you are not on social media sites, specifically Facebook, then you are essentially out of the loop because people have lost the art of communication. Both Marcus and Farrugia really highlight on the fact that there are different levels of connectedness between humans

Being the most famous social networking site on the web, Facebook entertains a good portion of the population of the world. With five new accounts created every second, the site is constantly increasing in size and popularity. One of the most mind boggling statistics on the web concerning Facebook is that, for every minute that passes on the site, 510,000 comments are posted, 293,000 statuses are updated, and 136,000 photos are uploaded (“Top 20”). Hundreds of thousands of activities are happening on this site, all in just a single minute. Those numbers may be a little overwhelming to process, but it is understandable with the broad amount of area that the site possesses in the social sphere.

Mark Zuckerberg transformed the world. After he created Facebook in 2004, social media developed into a major aspect of people's everyday lives. Anytime of the day and anywhere in the world, somebody scrolls through Facebook while commuting to or from work, as they observe a child’s sporting event, or before they go to bed at night. Facebook has become an increasingly important part of most people’s lives and has negative aspects as well as positive. While Facebook posts help friends and family keep in touch, the negativities of Facebook greatly outway the positives. Posting on Facebook can negatively impact a person’s chance to further their career because posts can keep applicants from acceptance into college and from jobs, and posts can result in termination from a job.

It is evident that there is a new generation of students known as members of the "digital and network generation," who are surrounded by information and communication technologies that include Internet, smartphones, and mass media. Course Facebook groups are used to facilitate communications among students, to foster a positive social climate in the classroom, to create dialogue and to engage students, and to serve as a learning tool. The paper examines the level of achievements of students and their satisfaction as part of an educational Facebook group.

In the study, Technology Inhibiting One 's Coping mechanisms with stress and loneliness, there were five focus group interviews held at the University of California, Irvine. Throughout data collection I formulated a research question, what are the differences between college students social media usage and how do they affect their connections to the campus community? Technology has grown exponentially in the last ten years changing the ways young adults communicate and understand one another. People’s main goal is to create strong connections with one another, and technology is inhibiting it. People are using online chat rooms instead of coffee dates. There is a huge difference between in person connections compared to online connections.

The main characters in this article include Facebook, Inc., a social network website that provides registered users with an open forum to create profiles, send messages, upload photos and videos, and stay in touch with family, friends, and classmates. Facebook is teaming up with online music sharing services such

Millennials are a frequently talked about generation, and college students are at the epicenter. They are the called the “social mavens”(2.A) and “the founders of the social media movement” (2.A) who are constantly connected via online. Growing up as part of the new generation and seeing frequent changes in technology over the years, it has come to play a role in our daily lives. Being able to relate to such a topic, we wanted to look further into Millennials’ use of technology; specially relating to college-aged students and what social media platform(s) the group is most active on.

Social media has moved from just being a fun tool to connect with family and friends. It has now become a powerful tool which is being used in the classroom and businesses alike. In the classroom social media facilitates connection and communication between teachers and students and students and students. It enhances the teaching learning process and increases the opportunities for learning in a more exciting and new ways. The use of social media tools in the classroom will not only enhance communication process but will also encourage the sharing of information and work among students. Social media in the classroom can be used to connect with other classrooms, have conference with parents, implement new ideas, have literature come to

Over the past decade, the presence of social networking sites (SNS) have become increasingly widespread: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr to name a few of the biggest contenders. Endless studies prove that SNS have a prominent place in modern society, especially among University/college students as evident in the literature 's focus on the age group, take for example Spraggins (2009) study where a majority of the sample attested to using SNS at least once a day for a period of 10 to 15 minutes. Without a doubt, its popularity and accessibility have impacted our lives one way or another. In specific, this paper will be looking at the effects of social media usage on users mental well-being in terms of self-perception of self-worth. Whilst numerous studies have already been conducted regarding this topic, its important to continue examining its effects as nothing is constant, ie. changes in type of usage, content popularity, ways of access, etc. Moreover, despite a plethora of studies, different results continue to be yield different, and at times contradicting findings (Murphy, 2012). For the purpose of this paper, social networking sites refer to websites that allows users to create virtual profiles available for public viewing that reveal personal information such as name, age and gender as well as facilitate communication and networking. Users are also able to submit and post a wide-range of