Social Media and School work Don't Mix

If you were to ask every freshman at WNEU with a Facebook, twitter, or other type of social network if they check it while doing their homework I would guess that almost every kid would say yes. Social media affecting student's school work could definitely be looked at as a problem for our generation. You hear stories about adults being fired from their jobs due to checking their social media pages instead of doing their work. The same problem lies within students, for instance I constantly hear students talking about how they procrastinate with their work because they are too distracted with facebook, twitter, etc. I wonder if someone had an experiment with a group of students who were allowed to be on soicla media as long as they'd like and another group who could only be on for 30 minutes. If you let this experiment run for a couple weeks it would be very interesting to see what the results are. I'm not saying that social media is a bad thing because like 99% of teenagers I do own a facebook I just raise the question whether it is hurting our effectiveness in the classroom or not.

The Effects Social Media has on Sports

Over the past decade Social Media has really evolved into the main source of information regarding news in sports. These days new stories in sports are reported within minutes of the events occurring due to how many people are constantly covering each sports team and player. For sports fans social media is great because they never go a minute without knowing what is going on with the sports world. Personally, I love that I am always being updated on what is going on with all my favorite teams. Even though sports fans love the effects social media has on the sports world, some athletes and coaches see the constant media as a negative. With the media always following players, there is little to no privacy time for them throughout the day and many athletes careers have been severely damaged due to the media such as Tiger Woods. So the question lies, what is more important to the sports social media companies, the satisfaction of the fans or the privacy of the athletes?