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Social Networking’s Influence on College
Students
Social
networking
has
gained
huge
worldwide
popularity
in
recent
years,
especially
among
college
students.
In
China,
college
student
is
the
main
force
of
social
networking, 97.7% of
which are fond of
instant messaging and
80.7% prefer
social
networking
sites
like
micro-blog
and
Q-zone
(China
Internet
Network
Information Center, 2013). Moreover,
Michigan State University Original Study also
finds that compared with Chinese
students, American students are more tied to
social
media
(2013).
Therefore,
nowadays
there
is
a
heated
debate
about
advantages
and
disadvantages about
social networking’s influence on college students.
Obviously,
there
are
a
number
of
positive
features
on
social
networking.
It
provides a convenient
access to consolidate the relationship with people
they know,
make
friends
with
strangers
without
restrictions
of
space
and
share
happiness
and
sorrow.
What’s
more,
social
networking
also
has
educational
functions
including
reducing
college
drop-out
rates,
motivating
students
to
work
as
a
team,
sending
information
about
assignments,
reminding
students
about
deadline
and
stimulating
students
to
help
each
other.
(BBC
News,
2009).
There
is
no
doubt
that
social
networking plays a significant role in
enriching students’ college lives.
However, every
coin
has two sides. There are
also
many
disadvantages
on the
influence
of
social
networking,
among
which,
“
soft
addiction
”
is
the
most
serious
problem,
distracting
students
from
study.
Because
of
lack
of
self-
restriction,
many
students
would
waste
plenty
of
time
to
search
the
social
networking
sites
unconsciously,
followed
by
a
strong tendency to
blame
themselves
(Li, 2013).
This
kin
d
of
“soft
addiction”
and
distraction
was
also
confirmed
by
Zhang
(2011)
who
conducted
a
survey
by
questionare
of
500
Chinese
college
students
from
different
schools
and
found
that
33%
students
could
not
bear
one-week
life
without
social
networking and 77% students could not
help themselves accessing social networking
site
during
classes.
Furthermore,
a
social
experiment
was
performed
by
Harrisburg
University
(Pilkington, 2010) to figure out the effect after
initiating 'blackout' of all
social
networking sites. It turned out that some students
became more concentrated on
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