Here's a link to a site that's done research on Facebook and how it's affecting students academically---> http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/facebookusers.htm
READ THAT FIRST, OTHERWISE WHAT I'VE WRITTEN BELOW WILL SOUND LIKE RUBBISH RANTING. Which is what it probably is anyway.
Then read everything I've written below.
MY DEBATE AGAINST WHAT THIS SITE STATES:
Firstly, I found that the whole article sounded like brainwashing. Like Brutus' speech at Caesar's funeral. Every parent will read this and think "facebook DOES affect grades" even though it doesn't directly say so.
People who aren't on facebook don't find the need to sign up BECAUSE they study 11 to 15 hours a day and really honestly would have TIME to sign up because they're busy studying.
Their life does not revolve around people, it revolves around books and their academics. Which means they wouldn't even HAVE too many friends on facebook.
So if one high scoring student wont sign up, it means his group is also not on facebook because they too are high scoring students who study as much.
Different priorities result in different actions.
People always think of social life affecting academics, but never academics affecting social life.
Something like this is always mutual. It always goes both ways.
These surveys are carried out by professors who do not even understand a younger generation because they're not in it. Experience always leads to a better understanding than word of mouth.
The people on facebook probably find more happiness in knowing other people and cultures around the world that studying about amoeba or Mohenjo Daro.
"Research" once said that the internet linked the whole world and that it is the most wondrous discovery in the new age.
"Research" also showed that people learn more through the internet and are more motivated to learn through the internet than before.
Now suddenly, because this newer generation wishes to create better ties with their own species, "research" wants to find faults in that which they once stated was good.
They're being hypocrites. This just shows that people are narrow-minded and are unable to accept a revolution of unity in diversity because it goes against what they were taught in their generation.
Excelling and being the best at academics is NOT on top priority to a large percentage of this generation. This generation wishes to balance it with everything else. This generation seeks more to bring peace and unity among people and facebook is a newfound connection to a way of doing so.
So why would anyone care to relate facebook to bad grades?
So what??
There is a greater good, there is a bigger picture, there is more to this world and universe that can only be seen if we open our minds to it instead of criticising everything.
Thank you.
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