Study Finds Link Between Facebook Use, Lower Grades in College.
to be honest, i think this person is very bias. because when you finish the article the writers states this:
The popularity of Facebook is evident in college lecture halls, Karpinski said. Faculty members who allow students to use laptops in class have told her they often see students on the Facebook site during class.
“It’s not going away anytime soon, and we need to learn more about how Facebook use is affecting students,” she said.
As for herself, Karpinski said she doesn’t have a Facebook account, although her co-author does.
“For me, I think Facebook is a huge distraction,” she said.
This is a small pet peeve of mine: with any research whether it is design research or socialogoical research, we need to see both sides of the coin to make a our arguement feasible. For her she only document Ohio State, I did not got to school there but being there for a short time it is just like U of D – delaware, a party school + a dedicted school, so you students are so black or white in all things, you have no “grey” landscape of people who loves to party and loves to work. so it is fudging the numbers that i don’t like.
Also when doing a data display, why only facebook? whatever happen to friendster or MySpace when they first came out? Where are those results, they have been around longer and has more entertainments on their site than facebook. Again she did not do a thorough investigation of her research.
Just don’t make the mistake of being opinionated without facts to back you up, for me i highly valued everyone’s opinions and love how they heartly believe in their ideals, but i admire those that actually questions and think about thier beliefs.
sorry, felt like quipping….