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The Use and Impact of Social Media on Tertiary Institution Students
The Use and Impact of Social Media on Tertiary Institution Students
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Introduction
The introduction of social media as a category of online discourse has made it possible for individuals to produce, share, bookmark, and network at an unprecedented pace. Social media is rapidly altering public conversation and creating trends and agendas across a wide variety of issues, from the environment and politics to technology and the entertainment industry, due to its simplicity of use, speed, and reach (Al-Rahmi et al., 2018). Thanks to the introduction of social media, the online world has changed tremendously in the past 10 years. Young men and women today communicate thoughts, sentiments, personal information, images, and videos at an astounding pace. Seventy-three percent of all wired American teenagers currently use social media.
Communications and sharing images and videos are the primary goals of using these sites like Facebook and MySpace. However, for the sake of this research, social media is defined as the use of the internet by individuals to communicate, share ideas, and share images and videos through Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Skype, MySpace, and Yahoo Messenger. Recent years have seen a global upsurge in the usage of social networking websites of all kinds. Initially a pastime for computer-savvy individuals, social media has evolved into a way of life for people throughout the globe. To stay in touch with their peer group, exchange information, reinvent their identities, and put their social lives on display, young adults and teenagers have taken to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace in particularly large numbers (Alnjadat et al., 2019).
The rise of social media websites in recent years has given young people a new avenue to connect and communicate with one another and the rest of the world. After Facebook and MySpace were launched between 2004 and 2006, social networking exploded in popularity. Facebook, for example, has more than 500 million members and is continually growing, and over 85 percent of undergraduate students use Facebook. Since Facebook’s user base continues to expand, these statistics are projected to rise. This is not only the case with Facebook but also with YouTube.
Communication, knowledge sharing, and new connections may all be facilitated by social networking platforms. As we learn to live in an ever-more technologically advanced society, the advent of social networking websites has had a significant impact on the way we communicate with one another. A lot has changed in the way online users communicate and engage with one another. Using the internet to socialize is taking away from the face-to-face interaction that has been there for a long time. By altering how we communicate face-to-face, how we acquire information, and how our social groups and friendships function, social networking websites have had an impact on our social interactions.
The fast progress of media technology has had a major influence on the way people interact daily. The expanding dimension of the usage of social media among the young of today cannot be over-stressed. Over the years, social networking among students has gotten more and more popular. It is a means to create relationships, not just on campus but with people outside of school (Cao & Sun, 2018). Social networking is a strategy that helps individuals feel they belong to a group. Due to its rising ubiquity of it, economists and educators are asking if the grades of students will not be influenced by how much time is spent on these sites.
The usage of technology such as the internet is one of the most critical variables that might impact the educational performance of pupils favorably or badly. Many parents and guardians are anxious that pupils are spending too much time on Facebook and other social media sites and do have not enough time to study.
Internet platforms, services, and behaviors that enable collaboration building communities, participation, and sharing” are known as “social media” or “social networking.” It is impossible to overstate the importance of social media in today’s youth. Social networking has grown in popularity among second-year students in recent years. It’s a great method to interact with people both on and off-campus (Giunchiglia et al., 2018). Many individuals benefit from the sense of belonging that comes with social networking. Researchers and professors are beginning to wonder whether students’ grades are being harmed by their increasing use of these sites.
About 57% of users on Facebook are between the ages of 18 and 29 and maintain a personal profile on various social media platforms (Zachos et al., 2018). There was a wide range in the daily time spent on social networking sites. However, a study of the data showed that most individuals spent roughly thirty minutes a day socializing, with the majority of this time occurring between 9 pm and 12 am. Social networking sites are often visited by more than half of college students. Almost two-thirds of college students admitted to checking Facebook multiple times a day. When it came to keeping in contact with high school and local acquaintances, younger students use Facebook more often than older students.
Social networking sites have been shown to have a detrimental impact on student’s academic achievement in several studies by experts. It has been estimated that 25 percent of students’ internet use is spent on social networking sites. Social media users tend to be less diligent in their studies, which results in worse grades. Students who utilize social networks have lower grades (GPAs) than those who don’t, according to recent research. While many diversions are unique to each age, Facebook has remained a key one for the present one. Students who are heavy Facebook users often suffer academically (Mastrodicasa & Metellus, 2013). Similarly, students’ use of social media has been shown to have a detrimental impact on their academic performance, making its disadvantages much more significant than its benefits. The surge in internet use has been a direct result of the rise in online addiction. Researchers found that people who are hooked to the internet tend to put off personal and academic duties in favor of their internet usage, which may lead to worse grades.
The use of synchronous communication programs, such as online sites and forums, has been linked to academic performance problems and internet reliance (Hou et al., 2019). There is a negative correlation between first-year university students’ self-reported GPA and their usage of different media, including mobile phones. Study participants were found to have allowed their mobile phone usage to disrupt their academic pursuits, according to the findings of the study. Students’ self-reported assessments of academic difficulty are linked to the frequency with which they check their phones each day. “Excessive” mobile phone usage is linked to school failure, according to studies.
Ninety percent of youths in the U. S. have an Internet connection, and 75 percent of these kids use the Internet more than once a day, according to the results of an online poll. Teens who have Internet access are also users of social networking sites and utilize the Internet to arrange plans with peers, new research found. Only 16 percent of all 18-29-year-old internet users were using social networking sites in September 2005, but this figure jumped to 86 percent in the following year.
Conclusion
According to this research, the majority of students have smartphones with internet access and are aware of the presence of social media platforms. As a consequence, they spend anything from 30 minutes to 3 hours a day on social media. Students’ academic performance was severely impacted by their usage of social media, according to this research, which also proved the substantial link between social media use and academic performance (Moghavvemi et al., 2018). More people use social media for chatting than for academic purposes, according to this study.
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Al-Rahmi, W. M., Alias, N., Othman, M. S., Marin, V. I., & Tur, G. (2018). A model of factors affecting learning performance through the use of social media in Malaysian higher education. Computers & Education, 121, 59–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.02.010
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According to the Percy Bysshe Shelley, the great Romantic English Poet, we are all Greeks.
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According to the Percy Bysshe Shelley, the great Romantic English Poet, “we are all Greeks”. There are many ways as to how the current world generation emulates the Greeks. This ways of the Greeks would be seen from the western Culture including the European and American cultures. The western culture has grown greatly to all continents and given that the culture emulates the ancient Greeks way of life, it follows that the Greeks’ culture has grown vastly around the world. When Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, said that people were all Greeks, he meant that almost all cultures have a great aspect of the ancient Greece culture.
The western culture’s resemblance to the Greece culture could be viewed from various points including philosophies, architecture, politics, as well as in other areas of civilization. Mesopotamia is in one way or another considered being the soul to western culture (McEvilley, 3). It is claimed that the western culture was born in Greece since there has been many admirations of the Ancient Greece activities and cultures by the western communities. Most of the historical discoveries and inventions are related to the Greeks and that the western world only went ahead to improve whatever the Greeks had invented. These inventions could include various architects including the wheel, pulley systems, and related sciences.
In terms of superiority and power over other nations, the western way of gaining power over most world nations could be associated with the way the Greeks ruled over the barbarians after the Persian Wars. These wars had Alexander the Great as a key figure and made the nation the most inseparable part within the Eastern sphere of cultures (McEvilley, 135). The Greece influence spread to the Neo-Babylonian empires extending all the way to the west. It seemed that influence of culture, art, science, politics, and philosophy was a move from the east to west since the Greeks and Ionians accepted influence from the eastern region of their location. The Greeks notion of superiority and the existing documentation of cultural influence towards the west are adequate to point that the Greece culture gave birth to the western culture.
The interaction of the Greek culture, Hellenistic culture and Buddhist culture was influenced by Alexander the Great who went on to concur various parts of Europe and Asia such as Achaemenid Empire and Central Asia (McEvilley, 234). This Greet man is emulated greatly by various western political leaders as a way of gaining power over other nations especially during the World War I and World War II. The emulation of the Greeks range from politics, through religion, to science, and artistic works done by the Greeks As far as religion is concerned, one would say that religion originated from the east through the Greeks and landed to the western culture. It then happened that the western culture countries such as Britain had the ability and resources to pass the same culture perhaps in a twisted version to other parts of the world including America, Asia, and Africa.
The palace structure according to historical descriptions of its beauty has been for many years a key attractive feature to the United Kingdom and British culture. The palace belonged to King Ashurnasirpal II in early ninth century BC (PARPOLA, 9). The attraction of the palace structure to the British culture is evident in the Assyrian Galleries belonging to the British Government. An artistic gallery of the palace is located behind the British royal throne to depict a sense of power, holiness, among other traits associated with kingdoms. From the Ancient Greece superiority notion and the Greek cultural attractions to the western way of life, it follows that the western culture was born from the Ancient Greece culture. The growth of these cultures to all parts of the world strengthens the fact that “we are all Greek”.
Works Cited
McEvilley, Thomas. The Shape of Ancient Thought. Comparative studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies. NY: Allworth Press and the School of Visual Arts, ISBN 1-58115-203-5, 2002.
PARPOLA, SIMO. The Mesopotamian Soul of Western Culture. 2012. 29 Jan 2013 <http://www.atour.com/education/pdf/SimoParpola-TheMesopotamianSoulOfWesternCulture.pdf>.
According to the case, I agree that Ho Ching is an influential leader
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According to the case, I agree that Ho Ching is an influential leader. Ho Ching came from a humble beginning and having done engineering entered into the position of leading and displayed her presence. An influential leader has a capable confident persona. The attractive force of the charming identity attracts individuals and urges them to trail the steps of the leader. They confide in the authority and encourage employee to have sure feeling of self.
Ho Ching in demonstrating and making her presence known searched out for undertakings that others will take note. She employed the technique that when one exceeds expectations at imperceptible activities, just those in the area of expertise will take note. When one exceed expectations at unmistakable ventures, or tasks that deliver income, one extend the deceivability substantially more-and to higher administration levels. Ho Ching has a persuasive tactic. She work out a sound, principled contention from their perspective of the other employees as she is in a fantastic position to fabricate agreement and structure the partnerships you have to help your venture succeed (Haslam, Reicher, & Platow, 2013).
Question 2
The sources of power are Coercive Power and reward power. Coercive force is gotten from an individual’s capacity to impact others by means of dangers, disciplines or approvals. A lesser staff part may work late to meet a due date to maintain a strategic distance from disciplinary activity from his manager. Coercive force is, thus, an individual’s capacity to rebuff, terminate or censure an alternate representative. Coercive force helps control the conduct of representatives by guaranteeing that they hold fast to the association’s strategies and standards.
Reward Power emerges from the capacity of an individual to impact the allotment of motivations in an association. These motivations incorporate compensation increases, positive examinations and advancements. In an association, individuals who wield prize power have a tendency to impact the activities of different representatives. The power, if utilized well, significantly propels workers. Anyhow on the chance that it’s connected through partiality, prize force can enormously unsettle representatives and decrease their yield (Selznick, 2011).
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Haslam, S. A., Reicher, S. D., & Platow, M. J. (2013). The new psychology of leadership:
Identity, influence and power. Psychology Press.
Selznick, P. (2011). Leadership in administration: A sociological interpretation. Quid Pro
Books.