This document discusses several negative impacts of social media and digital technologies on students. It states that while these technologies can be beneficial at times, they can negatively impact education, health, and communication skills. Specifically, it mentions that students have become more victimized by social media as they use it to avoid studying. The negative impacts included multitasking which hurts concentration, wasting time on social media instead of homework, reduced real-life social skills, over-reliance on sources like Google reducing learning retention, poorer writing skills, and in rare cases psychological disorders and suicide associated with dangerous online games.
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ANÁLISIS DEL USO DE REDES SOCIALES Y SUS CONCECUENCIAS
This document discusses several negative impacts of social media and digital technologies on students. It states that while these technologies can be beneficial at times, they can negatively impact education, health, and communication skills. Specifically, it mentions that students have become more victimized by social media as they use it to avoid studying. The negative impacts included multitasking which hurts concentration, wasting time on social media instead of homework, reduced real-life social skills, over-reliance on sources like Google reducing learning retention, poorer writing skills, and in rare cases psychological disorders and suicide associated with dangerous online games.
This document discusses several negative impacts of social media and digital technologies on students. It states that while these technologies can be beneficial at times, they can negatively impact education, health, and communication skills. Specifically, it mentions that students have become more victimized by social media as they use it to avoid studying. The negative impacts included multitasking which hurts concentration, wasting time on social media instead of homework, reduced real-life social skills, over-reliance on sources like Google reducing learning retention, poorer writing skills, and in rare cases psychological disorders and suicide associated with dangerous online games.
• Social media & digital technologies have a huge influence on people
• These 2 concepts may
be beneficial at times but they can also negatively impact on a adults, child’s education, health and communication skills. • Students have become victims of social media more than anyone else because they get attracted to these sites to kill boredom during studying
• Devices that are used most
with social media include, cell phones, laptops, computers, tablets, game consoles 1. Multitasking
• People become addicted
to social media they attempt to muti-task while studying or working. • This reduces their academic and productivity performance and their ability to concentrate on a task because of distractions brought by social media. Time Wastage
• Several people are spending too
much unnecessary time on social sites rather than doing their homework
• Students e.g tend not be
prepared for class. (not different than before)
• Instead of taking time and trying
to deeper analyze the task they rush through it. (very much true) Reduction in real life contact • People ability to communicate face to face has also been affected. • Forget how to communicate with each other in person. • They are not able to collaborate in discussions and this reduces their communication skills. Reduced learning • People tend to be dependent on getting information off sites like Google.
• This has reduced their focus
on learning and retaining information since they are reliant on the accessibility of information on social media. Poor grammar • Many students writing skills have been affected.
• Rather than improving in their
writing, they are doing worse in their spelling, grammar and communication skills due to the use of jargon and logo’s. Psychological Disorders and Suicide
• Two Kids comitted suicied in Bosa (Bogotá) in order
to achieve the goal to end de Blue Whale Game. • The blue whale is a game in social which induces its participants to take their lives