The Negative Impact of Social Media on Students: A UWTSD Study

This report, conducted by a UWTSD center manager, investigates the negative impacts of social media on students. It explores how excessive social media use contributes to anxiety, sleep deprivation, and poor concentration, ultimately affecting academic performance and overall well-being. The report details how students' focus on online activities leads to decreased participation in other beneficial activities, impacting their mental and physical health. The report highlights the effects of social media on students, including the development of anxiety, sleep deprivation, poor concentration and decreased physical activities. It also references several studies to support its findings and emphasizes the importance of understanding and mitigating these negative effects to enhance student careers and create a better world.

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).

 Sleep Deprivation – One of the major negative impacts of the social media on the
students is the sleep deprivation. In this they can highly worried about the friends that
what they are posting and sharing the information. Due to this their academics are to be
reflected in major way. For instance- If a student can have a large number of group at that
time he/ she are always worried about what their friends are to be shared related to
her/him. It will reduce their academic skill and also reduce their sleeping which is more
important or fell active and focused within the studies.
 Poor concentration – It is one of the today negative impact of social media on the
students. In this several task of the students related to their school work, class work etc.
need high level of concentration and to deal effectively that have to do something
essential is to remove the habit of social media. It is so because of maintaining the high
concentration power on their academics which helps in developing their future, Including
highly in the social media can present the highly negative impact on their performance
and concentration power(Chugh and Ruhi, 2018).
 Decreased activities – It is the impact of using the social media account by the students.
Due to the enhance usage of the social media account students cannot focused on the
other activities which is beneficial for them to enhance their mental abilities, skills and
also the physical movement which is more prominent to get the high result in their career
path. Due to this students cannot focus von doing the exercise and because of this they
can face high depression. This will present the high depression within the student and
become a common issue in their body. This will also build the issue of lack of controlling
power related to the specific content. this will decreased the student accuracy within
writing and also negatively impact on their communication. Because using of social
media do not utilizing the proper grammar at the time of communicating the thoughts to
the other person(Pang, 2018).

REFERENCES
Books & Journal
Alt, D., 2018. Students’ wellbeing, fear of missing out, and social media engagement for leisure
in higher education learning environments. Current Psychology. 37(1). pp.128-138.
Barton, B.A. and et. al., 2018. The effects of social media usage on attention, motivation, and
academic performance. Active Learning in Higher Education, p.1469787418782817.
Chugh, R. and Ruhi, U., 2018. Social media in higher education: A literature review of
Facebook. Education and Information Technologies. 23(2). pp.605-616.
Pang, H., 2018. Understanding the effects of WeChat on perceived social capital and
psychological well-being among Chinese international college students in
Germany. Aslib Journal of Information Management.