WUS Presentation: Social Media's Impact on Student Academics

This presentation examines the detrimental effects of social media on student academics, focusing on procrastination, poor time management, and declining academic performance. It highlights how platforms like Facebook can disrupt study habits, cause students to lose interest in essential activities, and impair their attention during crucial tasks. The presentation further explains how social media contributes to time wastage through constant updates and chats, ultimately affecting academic outcomes. Additionally, it addresses the negative impacts on students' health, including reduced participation in sports, brain strain, and mental health issues stemming from excessive social media use. The presentation concludes by advocating for the responsible use of social media to mitigate these adverse effects, emphasizing its potential harm to students' academic performance and overall well-being. Desklib offers a wealth of similar resources for students seeking academic support.

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Effect of Social Media
on
Student Academics
Student’s name
Western Sydney University

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This is a presentation about the effects of social
media on student academics. The main focus of
the presentation will be;
 Procrastination by students
 Poor Time Management
 Poor Academic Performance.
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Presentation
Outline

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For the past few years, the world has
experienced drastic online changes. This is as a
result of the invention of social media which has
enhanced people from all places in the world to
interact with each other easily. Approximately,
80% of the American teens employ social media
Introduction

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Social media can make to a student to procrastinate.
Social media such as Facebook has the potential to disrupt a student
from reading or doing assignments.
Extensive use of social media makes a student to lose interest on
doing some essential activities.
Social media has the potential to alter with the attention of a student
when doing some crucial such as an assignment.
The feedbacks gotten by social media may make a student forget
what he or she was doing.
Procrastination
By Students

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Social media makes a student waste time.
 Most students love face-booking.
 Social media updates may make a student
spend a lot of time reading them.
 Chats via social media make a student waste
time.
Poor Time
Management

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Social media affects a student’s academic
performance.
 Social media makes a student to become good
in multitasking; a student can read and text at
the same time.
 Students spend much of time face-booking or
chatting instead of studying.
 Social media updates distract a student while in
class.
Poor Academic
Performance

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Social media can affect a student’s health.
 Social media makes a student not take part in
sports.
 Social makes a student strain and as a result
affect his or her brain.
 Social media impacts happiness and as a result
lead to mental health.
 Too much time spent on social media sites such
as twitter and face-book can make one develop
Student’s
Health

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Social media is a channel of communication that
unites people from different places in the world.
However, It has many negative effects on a
student.
It is crucial for the use of social media to be
banned so as to save the students from its
negative impacts.
Social media is not good for students. It can affect
their academic performance as well as their
health.
In Conclusion

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