1. FACEBOOK AND STUDENTS
Social network sites such as such as Facebook allow individuals to present themselves,
and establish or maintain connections with others. These sites can be oriented towards
work-related contexts, romantic relationship initiation, connecting those with shared
interests such as music or politics, or the college student population. Participants may
use the sites to interact with people they already know offline or to meet new people.
Facebook enables its users to find friends who can post comments on each other's
pages, and view each other's profiles. Facebook members can also join virtual groups
based on common interests, to see what interest do they share with others, and learn
each others' hobbies, interests, musical tastes, and romantic relationship status through
the profiles.
Today, many students are using Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites,
sometimes hundreds of times a day. Their growth in vocabulary becomes stunted
because of the social networking explosion, they practically use the words like “ill c u
l8er” or “I ll cum to ye hum 2day”, students using social sites extensively and usually
chatting will use these words in their conversation and will have a adverse effect on
their real vocabulary when they’ll interact with others.
The more dangerous problem is that students today see the web as their “private
playground” and are unaware of the dangers posed by careless online postings.
Perusing social networking sites has the same effects as watching too much television;
it's a major distraction with no possible benefit. Preoccupation with these sites has
completely taken over as the major chunk in student’s life ' free time’. Just like adults put
away their responsibilities (grading papers; perhaps?), students avoiding homework and
not completing their tasks which will lead them to a spiral downwards.