Reflection on Social Media

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When it comes to using social media, I still believe that it is a beneficial thing for us students. After doing a group speech on individual stakeholders presenting all the positives and negatives that come with social media, I don’t see anything wrong with it. Yes it distracts us students from doing our schoolwork but there’s to many positives that will cancel that out. It gives us the ability to stay connected with people we don’t see everyday. Social media networks are designed for the purpose of communal connections. Today’s students are accessing Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram to connect and share with those around them. One of the most interesting things about social media is that users can interact and engage with each other solely through a Web presence, perhaps never even meeting in person. When the other members of my group got up there to talk to us about their stakeholders, it seemed that they were naming off more negatives than positives and I was shocked. Students who use social media had an average GPA of 3.06 while non-users had an average GPA of 3.82 and students who used social networking sites while studying scored 20% lower on tests. Social networking sites facilitate cyber bullying 49.5% of students reported being the victims of bullying online and 33.7% reported committing bullying behavior online. Hearing those two facts scared me. Me being an average user of social media, being on Facebook when I have nothing to do and checking my Twitter in between classes and even in the middle of classes. I was hooked on those 2 social media websites. As we went through the semester researching on our stakeholders and doing a speech on it made actually pushed me away from social media a little bit. To checking Facebook once every day instead of the usual 10 or more times a day. I really haven’t cut down on checking my Twitter but I actually did start

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