The Impact of Social Media on Students

THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL
MEDIA ON STUDENTS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
Negative impact of social media on students...........................................................................................3
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Social media is a trendy technology that can reflected as a computer based technology
which can facilitates the people to share their thoughts and feeling to the other person in all over
the world. This will develop the virtual networks so that a person can easily communicates the
design their communities. It is a technology that is based on the internet and provides the quick
communication related to the content. This report includes the negative and positive impact of
the social media on the students. At last offers the several recommendations that can reflect the
prominent roles of social media that can enhance the student career and become a world better.
This report is conducted by the UWTSD centre manager so that impact of social media can be
analyzed effectively(Barton and et. al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Negative impact of social media on students
Social media have a millions of user where individuals can develop their networking
communications to the world. In social media mainly students can get highly involved to engage
with the communities. Now days students can highly rely on the information that can be travel
through the social media and learn and retain that from a longer period of time. In this students
can performed the multitasking where they can try to check the several information and also
spend too much time within this. This will reduce the overall academic performance and
impacted on their future. Some of the negative impact can be shown below:
 Anxiety – Because of social media students can highly focus on what other students are
to be doing right now and in this they can spend their most of the time. Due to this they
will become victims of the depression and anxiety which highly affect the thought
process. For Instance- If a college going student are highly focused on using the social
media and attracts what their classmates and friend are doing and to match them they can
do the same things which are wrong. It will affect their thought process and due to this
they can face high depression(Alt, 2018).