The Positive And Negative Effects Of Social Media On 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).

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.

Jasmine Paton states that social media is a distraction for students in school that causes them to do badly in their education. Students log into their social media on their smartphone any chance they get in class. They pay more attention to their phones than their teacher in class. Students in middle school through high school spend about 8 hours using social media. Theirs some schools that has banned Facebook and Twitter from their library computers.

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?

Social media plays a big factor when it comes to cyber-bullying. According to Rion Martin, “more than 50% of kids have experienced cyberbullying”.Therefore, half of the kids who use social media have experienced being bullied. The article also states that “There were only 250 thousand conversations involving the topic of bullying being discussed in social media and 26% of all conversation include reference to social media” (Martin 1). Therefore, when bullying was being discussed social media had an impact on it.

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 a form of electronic communication which facilitates interaction based on certain interests and characteristics. The social networking sites are gaining a lot of popularity these days with almost all of the educated youth using one or the other such site. Thousands of people join social media networking sites to keep in connection with their friends and family members, According to Boyd and Ellison "people use social media sites such as Face book, Twitter, MySpace to create and sustain relationship with others"(1). Moreover, social networking sites are created to allow individual to communicate with others who share similar interests, information and friends. Most social network sites are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services. Social media is a popular trend today, especially among students.

In the world we live in today everyone is connected to one another through their smartphones and social media, Although this has had positive effect on the world i believe that the negative effects outweigh the positive effects. The extensive use of smartphones and social media have made it harder for students to gather and obtain information due to their dependence on technology to easily gather it for them. Studies have shown that the increased use of social media and smartphone have lead to mental health problem among teens. With everyone so worried about their facebooks and instagrams they haven't been able to learn how to properly socialize with other people. Smartphones and social media have negatively affected students ability to obtain information, alter their emotional stability, and negatively influence their social skills.

Ring! Ring! Ring! Do you hear that? That’s the sound of technology calling you. You can't keep ignoring it and sending it to voicemail. Sooner or later, you're going to have to pick it up, and when you do, it'll open a whole new world for you, a world of technology. We as inhabitants of the "Digital Age", have no choice but to embrace technology. Doing otherwise, will only complicate our lives further, and make things more difficult. In this Digital Age that we are currently living in, technology is becoming more and more a part of our daily lives. One of the biggest aspects of the Digital Age, was the introduction of social media. Social media makes our lives so much easier by connecting us and allowing us to share valuable information with one another. It's no coincidence that the use of social media has spread to our youth. However, some are debating whether this is a good or bad thing, as children and teens tend to be very impressionable. I for one believe that social media is beneficial to our youth, as it has proven to help increase their self-confidence, as wells as helping them create, and improve real world relationships. Despite this evidence however, some still believe that social media is harmful rather than helpful.

Social media is becoming the trend in this era. According to the McGraw Hill Dictionary, social media is the means used by people to interact with one another in a way create, share, and exchange information and ideas in a communication network and virtual. Social media is always doing updates almost every time so as to make the people who use them won’t get bored.

Social Media is a broad term. The definition states “websites and applications that enable the user to create and share content or to participate in social networking.” Social networking can be described as “the use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself”. For the context of this essay social media will be looked at in two forms. Social networking, as in a platform in which one is there for the primary reason of finding likeminded or differently minded people to conversate. While educational media will be used to describe a platform in which one has created a place to teach or learn from others. The concern with social media in education exist when these three areas are combined. Social media has changed society to the highest degree. Everyone wants to do what they want to do, and they don’t want anyone to think it’s another’s place to correct their own beliefs. When this happens it is easy for lines to be crossed and issues to arise. In the educational field teachers professors, and tutors are to be extremely careful about what they post and who they followon any platform. Social media in education can be a great benefit when used in the educational media form, but can be extremely damaging when it is mixed with social networking.

Social media is going to be the downfall of society! Which is apparently what many critics believe about the extensive use of this luxury. Social media has been getting lots of backlash from naysayers, claiming that it is ruining the modern generation, and it only negatively impacts the brain. However, There are many benefits from the media of the social type, that outweigh the negative connotation it normally receives from critics. Social media is able to educate students on politics, help teachers and students collaborate with each other, and has many other social advantages. Because of social media, school education is a lot more efficient and informative. After George Middle School in Portland, OR introduced a social media program to engage students, “grades went up by 50%, chronic absenteeism went down by 33%, and 20% of students school-wide voluntarily completed extra-credit assignments” (Kessler) according to an article from Sarah Kessler, a published writer for Mashable. Social media has opened up many job opportunities and is able to increase socialization in teens and adults. Social media is an amazing way for everyone to communicate with their loved ones, even “the Red Cross urged witnesses to tell family members they were safe via social media outlets” (Hughes and Pesce) according to an article co-written by Trevor Hughes and Carolyn Pesce, writers for USA Today. From the increase in socialization, the spread of information and awareness of issues can reach

Social media is an internet based platform where people are involved in social activities and networking. This means it is an integral part of their everyday lives. Social media has drastically changed their lives replacing their newspapers, event pamphlets and even old fashion texting. However, even if it is beneficial, social media has its negative sides for which it should be used limitedly. CNN has reported that teens in United States spent about 9 hours a day using social media. The excess use of social media can affect people of all ages, especially the youth and young adults who are mostly college students. Thus, due to the adverse effects resulting from overuse of social media, it should not be used more than two to three hours a day as it makes people addicted, it affects their academic performance and negatively influences their mental health.

Throughout the years, social media have advanced very much. With Facebook coming out in 2004, Twitter in 2006 and Snapchat in 2011, it has changed the world and the lives of many young teens. Today it is used for everything from our personal relationship, entertainment, to work and in our studies. People have become addicted to social media. I personally know a few who need to leave their electronics in the car so they are not tempted to grabbing their phone or tablet. Cell phones are a kid's world now because, without it, they cannot communicate via social media with friends or relatives. Some kids cannot believe that more than a few years ago cell phones were used just to communicate verbally. The cause of social media has affected many

“The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard” (Bill Gates). Technology has progressed throughout the years, and has created many opportunities for student, business and adults to succeed. Almost everyone in the world has access to the Internet or soon will have access to the Internet. This topic is important because many have the image/ believe that social network is bad, for kids, students and grown ups. However, they are proven facts that social networking has helped kids, students and grown ups in their studies or work. People interact in many ways, some by social media, some by phone, some by email, they are many other ways to communicate with others around the world. Social networking is used every day. “59% of students with access to the Internet report that they use social networking sites to discuss educational topics and 50% use the sites to talk about school assignments.” Social network provides us with prospering skills that in the long term it will benefit. Social network has its pros and con, but everything has that these days. Social network allows us to communicate across the globe rapidly, Helps gain important skills, and they are education benefits.