Thinking Critically - Social Networking - Assignment Example

The article states, “Opponents of social networking say that the sites prevent face-to-face communication; waste time on frivolous activity; alter children’s brains and behavior making them more prone to ADHD.” Furthermore, students who used social networking sites while studying scored 20% lower on tests and students who used social media had an average GPA of 3.06 versus non-users who had an average GPA of 3.82.” This clearly means that social media, especially Facebook distracts students in school when they should be more focused on academics.  With so many games and applications, Facebook also distraught students by constantly sending them the game and notification invites.