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.