Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have grown rapidly in popularity since the early 2000s. Facebook reported having over 1 billion monthly active users in 2012, making it the largest social media platform. However, extensive use of social media can negatively impact users' communication skills, waste large amounts of time each day, and potentially lead to conflicts from miscommunication. Studies show that heavy social media usage is associated with lower GPAs for students and that much of communication is nonverbal, which is lost online.

1. SOCIAL NETWORKS
Shelby Mitchell

2. What are these ICONS?
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INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK

3. HISTORY
MySpace was created in 2003, and only a year later, Facebook
was discovered in 2004. Then came along, Twitter in 2006.
Facebook reported one billion monthly users worldwide on
October 4, 2012, making it the most popular social networking
site with one in seven people on the planet using the site.
“Every day, Facebook manages 2.7 billion "Likes,” 300 million
photo uploads, and 2.5 billion status updates and check-ins.
Twitter, the second largest social networking site, had an
estimated 107.7 million users in the United States as of Jan.
31, 2012 500 million worldwide users as of Sep. 28, 2012.
59% of all Internet users use at least one social networking site
and 56% of social networking users are female.”

4. Main POINTS
• Social Networks affect young people by the lack of communication
skills they have when communicating with others face to face and
not through their social networks.
• Social networks are consuming so much time from young peoples
daily lives and they aren't even aware of it.
• When on social networks people tend to use lingo, or
abbreviations. Which causes you’re grammar and spelling skills to
decline to the use of social networks.
• Using social networks to communicate with others about important
ideas, or about their feelings can lead to miscommunication, and
conflicts.

5. FACE to FACE
According to Forbes
magazine, “Only 7 percent
of communication is based
on the verbal word. That
means that over 90 percent
of communication is based
on non verbal causes such
as body language, eye
contact and tone of voice”.

6. Time consuming
 According to Pue internet Statistics: 40% of
8 to 18 year olds spend 54 minutes a day
on social media sites. 36% of people
surveyed listed social networking as the
"biggest waste of time," above fantasy
sports (25%), watching TV (23%), and
shopping (9%). When alerted to a new
social networking site activity, like a new
tweet or Facebook message, users take 20
to 25 minutes on average to return to the
original task.
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“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. College
students’ grades dropped 0.12 points for
every 93 minutes above the average 106
minutes spent on Facebook per day.”

7. Survey RESULTS
 How many hours do you think you spend on social networks a day?
 0-1 33.33%
 3
 2-3 55.56%
 5
 4-6 11.11%
 Total 9 FSW STUDENTS

8. LINGO

9. Miscommunication
“According to a Feb. 9,
2012 Pew Internet report,
15% of adult social network
users had an experience on
a social networking site that
caused a friendship to end,
12% of adult users had an
experience online that
resulted in a face-to-face
argument, and 3% of adults
reported a physical
confrontation as the result
of an experience on a social
networking site.”

10. Resources
 Source 1:ProCon.org. "Social Networking ProCon.org."
ProCon.org. 23 Sep. 2014. Web. 30 Sep. 2014.
 Source 2: Jones, Haley A. "Social Media's Affect on
Human Interaction." HASTAC. Meryl Apler, 6 July 2013.
Web. 29 Sept. 2014.
 Source 3: Woods, Jason. "Social Networking:
Advantages vs. Addictions." Social Networking:
Advantages vs. Addictions. 6 Feb. 2009. Web. 7 Oct.
2014.