How Is Social Networking Like Facebook Affecting Teens

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Lama 1 Nima Lama English 120 Hunter College Professor Suzuki How is social networking site like Facebook affecting young adults? Who doesn’t have a Facebook account these days? My thirteen-year-old cousin who can’t even solve the easiest algebraic equation has one. He knows how to add friends, like pictures, comment on statuses etc. Sometimes I think the reason why he can’t solve math problems is because he spends hours and hours on Facebook newsfeed instead of dusting off his math textbook. Clearly by using my thirteen-year-old cousin as an example you can tell how Facebook has been distracting the young generation from their education. Not only their academics, but the overuse of Facebook has also blurred their communicating skills in person. The constant messaging between “ friends” on Facebook by abbreviating long sentences will form physiological habits and thus, cause digression of proper language. Lama 2 Nowadays, the first website a teenager checks when he/she gets on the computer is Facebook. A daily staff writer from daily news, Philip Caulfiel states “In the latest coup for the world's largest social network, Facebook topped the list of most visited websites in 2010, beating out search giant Google for the first time”. We can safely say that young adults are the ones who have helped Facebook to beat Google because for teenagers of our generation Facebook comes first before anything. They completely disregard their schoolwork. What we imagine a typical teenager to be doing after school is their homework. However, the ugly truth is that they are pre occupied socializing online with their friends who they just met couple of hours ago in school. Like my thirteen-year-old
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