EFFECTS OF TWITTER AND FACEBOOK IN THE ACADEMIC STANDING OF STUDENTS
EFFECTS OF TWITTER AND FACEBOOK IN THE ACADEMIC STANDING OF STUDENTS
A Library Research Paper for English 2: College Writing in English
Shera Marie B. Camposano
English 2
W – 4R
Moses Villanueva, Instructor
March 22, 2012
Introduction
According to Kirkpatrick, twitter and facebook maybe useful, destructive or both (83).
Social networking sites such as twitter and facebook are now prominent in the society. A vast amount of people engage in these kinds of website every year. Social bakers recorded 80 million new facebook accounts in the first quarter of year 2011. While Lauren Daugan confirmed on the same year that there were 460,000 new twitter accounts per day. With the wide range of modernization, technology contributes a big factor to the well being of its users.
Relating social networking sites to the academic standing of teenage students, there are a lot of pragmatic results upon connecting to such. These websites were made to help the community and not destroy it. However, its users seem to enjoy its convenience a lot that they let it come between their school-related endeavors. With this, an inversely proportional ratio was observed between the number of new twitter and facebook accounts to the quantity of qualified scholars produced per year.
There were three distinct attitudes developed upon engaging to such websites – multitasking, procrastinating, and deterioration of proper writing skills. A research conducted by the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America (2009) showed that multitaskers or people who developed the behavior of media multitasking are vulnerable to irrelevant meddling from the environment and performed very poorly in a test-switching test (Posner 15583). Simultaneously doing school works while using facebook or twitter is unadvisable. It crumbles up ones mental processing which results to a low quality work. Procrastination, on the other hand, delays your should-be priority.
A Library Research Paper for English 2: College Writing in English
Shera Marie B. Camposano
English 2
W – 4R
Moses Villanueva, Instructor
March 22, 2012
Introduction
According to Kirkpatrick, twitter and facebook maybe useful, destructive or both (83).
Social networking sites such as twitter and facebook are now prominent in the society. A vast amount of people engage in these kinds of website every year. Social bakers recorded 80 million new facebook accounts in the first quarter of year 2011. While Lauren Daugan confirmed on the same year that there were 460,000 new twitter accounts per day. With the wide range of modernization, technology contributes a big factor to the well being of its users.
Relating social networking sites to the academic standing of teenage students, there are a lot of pragmatic results upon connecting to such. These websites were made to help the community and not destroy it. However, its users seem to enjoy its convenience a lot that they let it come between their school-related endeavors. With this, an inversely proportional ratio was observed between the number of new twitter and facebook accounts to the quantity of qualified scholars produced per year.
There were three distinct attitudes developed upon engaging to such websites – multitasking, procrastinating, and deterioration of proper writing skills. A research conducted by the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America (2009) showed that multitaskers or people who developed the behavior of media multitasking are vulnerable to irrelevant meddling from the environment and performed very poorly in a test-switching test (Posner 15583). Simultaneously doing school works while using facebook or twitter is unadvisable. It crumbles up ones mental processing which results to a low quality work. Procrastination, on the other hand, delays your should-be priority.
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