Analyzing the Impact of Social Media on Students' Academic Performance

This report delves into the multifaceted impact of social media on students, examining both its positive and negative consequences. The introduction highlights social media's widespread influence and its role in communication and information access. The main body explores how social media fosters creativity, facilitates online learning, encourages collaboration, and enhances technological familiarity among students. However, it also addresses negative aspects, such as distractions, reduced focus, exposure to inappropriate content, cyberbullying, and potential impacts on mental health. The report offers recommendations, including managing notifications, utilizing social media for educational purposes, and promoting parental guidance. It emphasizes the importance of a balanced approach, leveraging social media's benefits while mitigating its risks to ensure students' academic success and overall well-being. The conclusion reiterates the need for awareness and responsible usage in navigating the digital landscape.

The impact of social media on
students.

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Social media is important allowing the people to reach locally, reliably, nationally and even
internationally. It is providing up the major platform for everybody for knowing the people
interest, behaviour and actions. Social media have crippled up students with the increase in
interacting with one person to another person. It has turned out effective marketplaces for the
different brands and business (Arif and et.al.,2019). In this report, there will be discussion on the
positive and negative impact of social media on student with reference of specific examples. In
addition, there will be recommendations on how students can use of social media as
technological tool towards ensuring the better world.
MAIN BODY
As technology advancements, the average person has increasing up the enthralled with bells
and whistles with various gadgets involved in regular processing. from the launch of new
iPhones with latest mobile applications, student from around globe are using up different
technology as part of learning tool and enjoyments. On the other hand, the social media sites are
seeming out to be distraction creating the tremendous impact on education.
Social media is creating up the positive impacts on the students to have proper outlets in
term of creativity. Student are using shot on Instagram, writing out the poetry on Tumbler. hence
the social media is the perfect tools for students showcasing the creative worked in proper
manner. This is looking in manner including better communications, timely information,
socializing the online, learning with enhancing skills.
Encourage online learning and developing familiarity with technology
With increase advancements and use of social media platforms, student have been
encouraging and motivated to learn out different things. There have been different educational
videos on YouTube, easy access to the e books, online notes to extend to which learning is via
online learning via video calling considering with major aspects contributing to educational
development in proper manner. On the other hand, distance learning are best ways for the
reputed organization taking up proper collaboration with social media possible aspects. A large
group of students are looking to online learning of different subjects joining and gaining
knowledge.
On the other hand, social media is making out easier collaborations with social media. When it
comes up to educations, nothing has streamlined with projects studying looking in term of
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technology. Student are taking up usage of Google Docs to Flow board to have proper
collaborations (Abbas, and et.al., 2019). With lower commute times and easier flexibility in
term of scheduling, social media turning out to be simpler and more realistic for student to work
together in perfect manner.
Student are making up group on social media for the classes on social networks such as
Facebook along with integrated messaging and video chats to communicates as stronger final
belles. In addition, networking has turned out to be important aspect providing up the significant
platforms such as LinkedIn networking. These are platforms where student is uploading the
resume, connecting with professionals and application for job. Social media have transformed
with way of students looking for various opportunities regarding different jobs and internship.
In addition, another positive impact done by social media on the students is regarding
development of ability to be familiar to use different technology. Young generation have
developed understanding regarding uploading of picture, fixing up the minor problems share
links and adjust up different settings. On the other hand, it seemed to be impossible for the older
generations to get adaptions with rapid pace that student is doing today. Developing familiarity
with technology is palsying up major roles in helping students in tech fields.
Enhancing creative element.
Social media is enhancing the creative and skill in the student allowing them to execute proper
ideas and skill development. This is helping student to identify hidden talent with taking proper
picture and using of online editing skills which turned out to look aesthetically appealing.
YouTube have been the engagement platform for large varsity of youngster doing a lot of
creative videos as per inserts in hobbies (Raza and et.al.,2020). They are posting up online via
videos and photographs helping out resiles their potentials for making up career in proper
manner. For example, many school and colleges are using up online technology acting in away
the right kind of education in way of improving the social skills, writing skills along with
achieving out one of the educational pursuits.
More ever there is heling up in building the connections as part of essential tools to make
connection with world in todays age of technology and knowledge-based society. This is adding
values to relationship as exploring the different social media websites. this also help in
developing their digital media literacy. There is need for student to maintain the parental
guidance navigating the technological advancements which is need to proper upgradation.
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Several schools have taking up the approaches looking into flipped classrooms for student to
collaborates educational projects and relates academic task. Students are having a lot of learning
forums discussing the queries on social group with similar ideas. children are part of community
with taking part in local and global online communities.
Negative impact
There are many positive aspects of the social media on the student as well as educations. But at
the same time, there are many levels of negative impacts of social media.
Causes distractions
Social media have been the major factors which is leading the distraction and hindrance
in mind of individuals (Rahman, Ramakrishnan and Ngamassi, 2020). The student is leading
with losing focus from studying. instead of this student have n\been enjoying up the browsing on
social media as this is leading to have stage of time without learning with it. most of the student
are incapables with submitting their works in specified time frames as they are not focussing
with using of social media platforms improper manner. On the other hand, this is creating the
negative impact on health as well as physical effects on one health. Student are ta up proper
meals, taking not rest and have continuous use of phone ad laptops. This is creating up adverse
effects on their eyes making student lazy and unmotivated to study and meet new people. Parents
and education institution have to pay up major level of attention and monitoring of students so
that the negative impact can be reduced.
Student are turnout to be lazy and unmotivated to study and creating negative impacts.
This is leading to have bad posture, eye strains, physical and mental stress in better manner.
With extensive use of social media have reduces up learning and research capability student have
reduced up going through different books, journal and notes. student is finding it easy for
extracting up all information’s online exploiting the reading habits as students with learning and
research capabilities to reducing. On the other hand, student is getting the exposure to the
inappropriate contents. There are all awareness regrading dangerous social media challenges
games such as Blue Whales calming out the innocent lives through chat windows. There is
major risk to the children whose parents not very technology saying or do not have monitoring
online usage (Vrontis and et.al.,2018). On the other hand, student tends to loosening up of
confidences accustomed with face to face to conversation as body language with huge interest of
communication between humans. Hence, student with accessibility of information based on the
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social media p[platforms in order to get into the answer in proper manner. This means they
have reduced up major focus on learning and retaining differ information. In addition, student
are attempting up to take into multi tsk checking up various social media sites while they are
studying. This will be led to have reducing in academic performances. Besides, their have ability
to make contraction of task significantly reducing the distraction with social media websites.
Cyber predators and cyber pulling
The student is majorly facing up the major risk of cyber bullying. There has been looking
into the various issues such as inclusion of mental health, education and social relationship. This
is creating up long lasting impact with right from the adulthood. As per the researcher, it has
clear suggestions where young people have to spend 2 hours per hours on social media reporting
the poor mental health including the psychological distress. The use of social media has
significant associate with poor quality sleep in young people the using of phones, laptops and
tablet linked with poor quality sleep along with creating up major issue in body image. Women
or teens using the Facebook in early twenties have major concern over body image as compare to
non-users.
Recommendation
Social media notification on the phone and laptops
As the social media notification on the phone and laptops have been ultimately very much
distracting for the student to be very focus on the significant task manner (Santoveña Casal,
2019). Student have need to establish the do not disturb function on the laptops and phones
extremely helping out to avoid the lack of focus of studying time. In addition, many of
millennials have realized that’s technology is topic for discussion that is needs to address with
catch up continuously because of technological world is constantly evolving.
Use the social media
It is important for the educators are student to use the social media to be involved with
snow days ad school breaks creating momentous in harsh weathers. The educators can have
usage with posting the proper assignments, project and discussion helping students to take proper
review such material at the end of break. This good to be proper occasions to use the learning
management systems keeping tracks of the student assignment and record proper delivery of
work in proper manner.
Educational institutions
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The educational institutions have the need to make proper interaction with parents to forge
up the proper relationship. The student has to look into the student and building of busy
schedules. Parents and advisors have need to benefit the community with reference to one-on-
one conferences attending the different sections.
Home students with internet writing and online research skills
Writing have involved with Internet age from writing in a vacuum to participating in the
worldwide conversation. Writing on the web is much different from writing for an academic
journal. There is need for student to maintain the parental guidance navigating the technological
advancements which is need to proper upgradation. Several schools have taking up the
approaches looking into flipped classrooms for student to collaborates educational projects and
relates academic task.
Learn from the colleagues around the world.
It has tuned out very easy for the everyone to get into sharing of ideas and success with other
educators. There is need follow up the educators and admire to follow up the similar setting and
communication styles. In this global age, no educator has to recreate the wheel (Gomes and
et.al., 2017). They just have to put together a strong professional learning network.
CONCLUSION
From the above file , it can be concluded as Social media have crippled up students with the
increase in interacting with one person to another person. As technology advancements, the
average person has increasing up the enthralled with bells and whistles with various gadgets
involved in regular processing. There have been different educational videos on YouTube, easy
access to the e books, online notes to extend to which learning is via online learning via video
calling considering with major aspects contributing to educational development in proper
manner. Young generation have developed understanding regarding uploading of picture, fixing
up the minor problems share links and adjust up different settings. There is need for student to
maintain the parental guidance navigating the technological advancements which is need to
proper upgradation. Parents and education institution have to pay up major level of attention and
monitoring of students so that the negative impact can be reduced. Student is getting the
exposure to the inappropriate contents. The educators can have usage with posting the proper
assignments, project and discussion helping students to take proper review such material at the
end of break.
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