Is Social Media Ruining Students?
Statistics:
- Those that multitask between Facebook and studying have 20% lower grades
- 79% of students surveyed don’t believe this
- 85% of Facebook users worked less than 5hrs a week
- 80% of non-Facebook users that worked over 16hrs a week
- Facebook users are twice as likely to be involved in campus activities
- 20% experiencing a feeling of social connectedness among Facebook users
- They are twice as likely to feel popular
- 48% of students think they are sadder than their Facebook friends
- 25% of college students show serious depression in their status updates
- Students asked to not use social media for 24 hours reported signs of withdrawls such as frantically craving, very anxious, extremely atsy, miserable, jittery and crazy
- Facebook addiction is searched 350x more than cigarette addiction
- Updating Facebook profiles boosts self esteem
- Students who spend more time on Facebook are more narcissistic
- 1 in 3 students use social media for study purposes
- Facebook users study between 1-5 hours, non-users study between 11-15 hours
Via: OnlineEducation.net

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