"The social-networking website isn't growing like it once did, but only because almost every US student is already on it." - Cristian Lupsa.
Facebook has been the biggest social-networking website amongst many students, especially college students. An article "Facebook: A campus fad becomes a campus fact" collects many students' and administrators' opinions about Facebook. There are different opinions about Facebook. Some people think they can do productive work on Facebook by making groups. Some other people think Facebook is bad because there is a chance for a group people to make a Facebook group to eliminate someone such as "We hate Pablo" in the article.
I have used Facebook since I was a senior in high school. Everyone in my high school had it, so I made one as well. When I was younger, all of my friends used to use Myspace which is another kind of a social-networking website. I have used Facebook for several reasons to meet new people at Trinity University, gather some people to celebrate a friend's birthday, and so on.
Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with everyone you are friends with on it. It is hard to keep in touch with 'everyone' in your life by phone. Also, there are many groups which are meaningful. For example, a student named Luke found out he had leukemia and his friends made a Facebook group to help him.
On the other hands, Facebook is very distracting academically. Last semester, I used to get on Facebook probably at least five times a day. When I was trying to write a paper, I would be constantly distracted by Facebook by looking at other people's new pictures or talking to friends on it. It also shows everyone's status changes, especially relationship statuses, on newsfeed so it is not an exaggeration to say everyone knows about your life!
Recently, I have deactivated Facebook to focus on my school work.
Facebook is a great way for students to socialize. Yet, it is horrible academically in my opinion.
If you want to read this article, please click the link below.
Hye-Won Kim
hkim1@trinity.edu
Interesting. So it seems that for you, facebook is not really used academically, only socially.
ReplyDeleteIt may be a good idea to deactivate your facebook to focus on your academic work, but that completely disconnects you from some people. :(
ReplyDelete(i'm glad you reactivated yours for good, finally!)
It was cool that you gave some of the negative info about facebook . . . but also good that your back on it :)
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