Facebook Hurts your Grades?
From CNET News
Yes, researchers at Ohio State University have delved deep into the habit that is Facebook and concluded that those who express their membership regularly do worse in school tests.
In fact, they say, the majority of those who Facebook daily do worse by as much as one whole grade.
Aryn Karpinski, one of the Ohio State education department researchers, was quoted in the Times of London as saying: “Our study shows people who spend more time on Facebook spend less time studying. “Every generation has its distractions, but I think Facebook is a unique phenomenon.”
Ms. Karpinski will be presenting her findings this week at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Some 68 percent of the Facebookers among the 219 young things questioned enjoyed a significantly lower GPA than those who eschewed friending and poking.
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No surprise here. They should also study texting.
LOL – I think I would have been in big trouble if we had had texting . . . . š¦
Yeah those little kids should be buried in their books..BUT facebooking and Twittering at work actually improves the productivity of us grown up :D…check this out:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/162478/twitter_facebook_can_improve_work_productivity.html
“According to a study by the Australian University, 70 percent of office employees use the internet at work for personal reasons. Of them, nine percent were more productive compared to employees that didn’t use the web for fun.”
I guess such companies succeed world wide which make people to think less.
Isn’t it the idea of bankers to unify the world into a programmable chips.
Say NO to things which make one think less.
~ Soul
P.S: Check the YouTube videos posted on my blog.
Those you Tube videos suck soul!
Nice website man!
Darya – Now that you mention it, I remember seeing that! I couldn’t understand it, but maybe it helps people cope somehow . . .
Soul – I didn’t see any videos posted!
Joe/Steve – when you comment, your symbol and IP show up as the same person. What’s with that?
Its in today’s Al Jarida Newspaper (Arabic though)
You can see them at Hilaliya.com now, Intlxpatr.
~ Soul
No kidding, Ansam! Do you think parents will limit their kids access to FaceBook here in Kuwait?
I’m going there now, Soul!
Yes, my sister will allow her boys to go only on weekends hehehehe
I starting to get tired of all this poking and superpoking on facebook.. whatever happened to a simple hello ? š¦
You have a smart sister, Ansam. š
Mathai – I think now that the entire world is on FaceBook, the young people will move on to something else. It was only fun when it was a novelty.