The Distraction Of Social Media In The Workplace

Social media can be distracting in the workplace. People are constantly checking their social media accounts throughout the day. People often find themselves using social media when they are supposed to be focus on their work. For some people it is hard to balance work and social media. In the article Examining Applicants Reactions to the Use of Social Networking Websites in Pre-Employment Screenings by J. William Stroughton, Lori Foster Thompson, and Adam W. Meade says, “The use of social networking websites has proliferated in recent years (73).” In recent years’ social media has become more a distraction to people in the workplace. Social media has become more of a factor in peoples’ everyday life which is not good. This means that social media is starting to take over peoples’ life.
Social media is also effecting the way that people communicate in the workplace. In Joseph A. DeVito’s textbook Interpersonal Messages, he talks about messages in the workplace. DeVito mentions the different channels of communication and a lot of workplaces prefers to communicate via e-mails, cell phones, social networking, etc. (229). In the workplace if a person has a question their boss would prefer if they e-mail them with the question rather than talk to them in person. In the article Organizational Members’ use of Social Networking Sites and Job Performance by Murad Moqbel, Saggi Nevo, and Ned Kock they talk about the use of social media in the workplace. They talk about how people waste time on social media when they should be doing their work and how it effects their job performance