There are many new online communities that are going to leave. With billions of people using different types of social media, it can have positive and negative effects on the education for teens. Social media is what many students use to provide answers to many things in their work. This means that they will be less focused on learning and instead searching online to provide answers. Multi-tasking is commonly used by many students. They try to multi-task by checking their social media sites while studying. Studies show that students that do this have a poor academic performance compared to if they are just focused the whole time. It is very hard to concentrate on a task considering the amount of distractions that are provided for you. Social media should be used as a way to help guide you for your academic needs. Social networking has helped education by increasing the rate of students working together. It is much easier to communicate times to meet as well as share information quickly just by sending each other messages that can provide help with group projects. It also helps you so that you can even do work without even meeting in person. Communicating between partners can help increase the amount of work that is done and help to work well in groups. Many online social networking sources can help teach students skills they need for classes. With the creation of YouTube, it provides you with free content that other people can show you. This free content can help you learn things to help you excel in school. Compared to the time when Internet did not exist, if information was needed for an assignment, the library was the only way to gather information about a topic. This could have been very time consuming and it may have caused problems if you had no way of getting to a library. Now, with search engines available, type in any topic and you will find information about it in seconds. Also if a lot of time is spent on technology, teens will be able to learn how to operate the devices and computers as they will be more familiar with what they are doing. With the increase of technology being used in education, students will learn to build skills that will help them advance throughout their live. Online sources provide teens with other ways to access work and even lessons that they may have missed in class. Teens have the ability to use the Internet in any way they need to. Depending on how they use it will either help them succeed in school or prevent them from succeeding. Some high school students are highly dependent on social media for their social status and don’t concentrate on education. High school is a time to figure out what you do in the future. Even with a good social status, your future can either turn out good or bad. It depends on how you spend your time in high school whether it be with or without social media.
