18 Mar
Posted by lal as Case Study, Education
Facebook is a social networking site for those who have not yet discovered its many advantages such as offering an easy way to find old friends and connecting with current friends online. Sure it serves an entrtainment purpose; there are many fun applications one can put on their profile to show their personality in one way or another. People can chat to others and share pictures. However its popularity increases, and with this the danger of its widespread use. One can see Facebook as a vacuum that sucks people’s interests, effort and most importantly time which leads to loss of attention in other and perhaps more important aspects of life. This is the main focus of the news article “Schoolchildren log onto Facebook during lessons” as David Hobson managing director of Global Secure Systems surveys 13 year olds about the time they spend on the site a day. The result shows that 52% of the students have actually logged in onto the site during lesson which shows that sites such as Facebook does have threatening factors, mainly education as the majority of its users is teenagers.
Oh and by the way, I have started using Bloglines and here is my URL:http://www.bloglines.com/public/LAL
2 Responses
drtech
March 19th, 2008 at 9:04 am
1The buzz tool of the moment the Social Network. But there are signs all ready that it might be just another fad – if you search around you will find statistics showing that people are using the site less and less?
Do you think that students should have access to a Social Network in school? Or should it be filtered such as at our school. Or could it actually be used in education – what do you think lal?
drtech
March 19th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
2Hmm lal great idea to share your blog feeds that you are reading…but maybe you need to make them public?
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