The Distraction Effect Social Media

The Distraction Effect

Although utilizing social networking platforms is typically subjected to a pervasive attitude of the social website and attitudes of students toward social networking in general, most online behaviors reflect personality behaviors, cultures, and values. How people use online social networks particularly since per their behavioral patterns and attitudes towards information sharing and privacy is a direct consequence of and a reflection on their cultural backgrounds.

Intellectual capabilities manage time and process information and therefore should affect their capacity towards benefiting from online activities and restricting their efficiency on any tasks performed in parallel (Couldry, 2012). Social media users typically

Asur, S., & Huberman (2010) defines social media as “a ubiquitous and important platform used for social networking and content sharing.” For much of today’s youth mobile devices and interactive social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have been ever present in their lives and critical factors in their development. The long-term consequences are yet unclear, but there is no doubt that the advent of social networking has transformed the manner in which students interact with their families and friends, as well as how they utilize established and emerging technologies to navigate the world (Correa, Hinsley, & De Zuniga,

However, other research suggests that social media serves as a distraction and directs attention-related resources away from studies. This is considered as one of social media downfalls. Other disadvantages include the risk of cyber bullying which refers to a type of bullying that has perpetrated through the use of social