The Negative Effects Of Social Media In College Students

Does the name Mark Zuckerburg mean anything to you? If you are in higher education administration it should. When he attended Harvard University, he was a cunning college student who hacked into the universities computer system. He stole information about students who currently attended the university such as photos and ID information. As a result of his illegal endeavors, he created a website called Facemash and encouraged site visitors to rate people participating in the website as “hot or not.” This was his first effort at advancing the world in social media. His second effort was creating a study tool to upload images of Roman art, which allowed each student to write a commentary underneath. Both of these internet successes led to the creation of a known website called Facebook. This website privileges over half a billion users around the world. In higher education, social media is not a new phenomenon. When students use it correctly, there is evidence it can greatly enhance student learning, but social media can have serious cognitive effects on college students possibly even resulting in the decline of their GPA (Magolda, 2011).

Erik Qualman once said, “We don't have a choice on whether we do social media, the question is how well we do it?” (Qualman, Erik). This quote clearly states that social media has become a part of today's society and that avoiding it would be nearly impossible without total isolation. The quote also ask a rhetorical question that simply queries, how properly do we use social media? Qualman made it obvious that we’re not being as effective as we should be on social media. Social media began it’s thriving point, with the 21st generation, around 2005 when the website Facebook was created. At that point and time, the website was mainly for communication purposes. Whereas now, all social media has formed into an entertainment center. Unfortunately, the original intentions of social media have reached an ultimate downfall. Social media can be used in several harmful ways; such as, the unintentional way, the intentional way, and the way that people tend to forget about.

Social media is defined as websites and applications used for social networking, in other words it is a way for people to interact and express themselves without being face to face. Social media has become a large part of the life of teenagers, who make up most of the population of people who are subjected to using social media in their daily lives. Many college students are faced with balancing their social lives with school and even athletics making priorities a big dilemma for them. College students in America are affected in many ways by social media whether it be their social life, their happiness, or their grades.

Social media is a huge platform that many people use as a social outlet to communicate among others. The more popular websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have long existed and given users a way to stay connected with family and friends. However, there has been an ongoing debate about the positive and negative effects that it tends to have on different generations. While many in today’s society believe that social media can be unhealthy due to its ability to become addictive, there are also many benefits to utilizing this platform. Over the course of this paper I will be discussing the effects that social media has on college students. More specifically, I will be arguing that social media has a positive impact on college

College student and the social media, in many ways both good and bad a college student can be affected by the social media. It can be an opportunity to prove how you really are as a person and potentially be accepted to college, or you can be denied admittance and lose the opportunity to study at the college you have been hoping for.

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.

People wonder if social media has a positive or negative affect on your college admissions. social media has a tremendous effect negative effect on College acceptance, and how colleges view you as a person.

In an ever-changing world, technology has pervaded almost every aspect of the average person’s life. Along with advances in technology has emerged the rise of social media sites, where individuals can take pictures of events, update statuses, mark the places they have been, and the foods they have eaten. Young adults have been at the forefront of using these social networking sites to display their actions and aspects of their lives to the public world. While one may think these sites are intended to bring joy to others, and put people in connection with one another, the display of other’s lives may have a negative effect on the viewer. Among groups who may be negatively affected by these social networking sites are college students, who face a new environment, and commonly experience a “fear of missing out” from viewing the lives of others. While these social media sites may be fine in small amounts, the increased consumption of multiple social media sites may have a negative effect on the happiness of college students, which may produce a link to depressive symptoms.

Using social media platforms is essential in social networking and collaboration within an organization. When one articulates one's passion, the leader can make the vision of the organization clearer to all stakeholders. This would help the leader unite with team members and contribute to bringing about confidence because there is a clear set of values (Ambler, 2013). I will use social media, through LinkedIn, to engage with the community and promote employees that are skilled to other

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.

According to writer David Reimherr who works for the Shweiki Media Company and do a research about which social media college students use most by letting 260 college students to do the survey. The result shows that the top 5 platforms college students use most are the Facebook, Twitter (95%), Instagram(73%), Snapchat(80%), Pinterest(48%)and LinkedIn(40%).（Remherr）As a result, if people walk in the university’s campus, they will see that almost students will hold on their phones to use the social media and searching for the information from the social media. It is amazing to see most of them holding their phones and don’t talk to each other. They focus on their phones and ignoring their others walk with them, which will damage the relation between the couple. The couple will communicate with another girl or boy in the social media, which easily broke up because of cheating with others. Also, it’s unsafe for college students to use the social media because of the security problem. As a result, there is the concern that should college students use the social media?

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

College students and young adults are subject to the benefits of accessing the internet for information, communicating with their friends over social media, and the various entertainment properties one can find on their computers. Lack of it would cause them to rely on outdated methods of shopping, communication, and research. However, failure to minimize or regulate usage of communication technology can put college students in more danger than one might think Keum, Seon Hwang, Rosen, L.d, Ehrenberg, Alexandra, and Twenge, Jean M all suggest that overuse or improper use of social media can result in harmful outcomes such as personal disorder or a loss of social skills. Jeff R. Temple has a different view where he puts sexting ahead of the other harmful externalities caused by communication through technology. The consequences of communication through social media, text messaging, and email should be recognized. Monitoring and limiting the use of these forms of technological interaction can help to kids, college students and young adult’s innocence as well health firmly intact.

Social media is unquestionably, everywhere. In spite of its recent beginnings, it has quickly become an indispensable part of everyday lives. Social media and various websites are the most commonly used among today’s society, specifically of young adults. Social media sites include learning resources, like blogs; image and networking pages such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter; streaming sites such as YouTube; and interactive peer-to-peer gaming sites. With these platforms, the world continues to grow smaller and smaller as social media connects every aspect of human life, benefitting young adolescents by improving connections, communication and even practical skills needed for adulthood. However, despite its ability to bring people together, several recent researchers share the belief that social media has affected society negatively, most especially those who are still in school. The problem that this essay tackles is how young adults’ mental health is affected by too much social media influence. Are online actions an expression of offline behaviors? Is social media harming young adults’ mental health? These topics have been argued by several researches and make for interesting debates. Statistics from a research done by Doctors Gwenn Schurgin O’Keeffe and Kathleen Clarke-Pearson show many mental health issues, about 50-70%, are diagnosed before the age of 18. Making this age demographic

The Thanksgiving dinner where family that you have never met before comes in for a week and invades your personal space. You 're between the drunk uncle that no one really wants to sit next to and the Grandma you haven 't seen in forever, instead of engaging in conversation you pull out your phone franticly refreshing Instagram so talking isn’t asked of you. So many times we often turn to our phones for comfort to escape the awkward tension we are in, this gives social media a hold over us. “Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: It gives us immediacy, direction and values as an individual.” - David Amerland. And as years went on the effect social media and texting has had on writing should be concerning for others. So the question we should pose is as writing in technology becomes more progressive do we loose our human connection/ emotion that would’ve been gained through writing in other forms?