IS FACEBOOK A DISTRACTION FOR STUDENTS?

Facebook is a complete addiction which wastes the precious time of the students. Usually students have the right intention of checking their facebook for a certain amount of time. They usually say 'give me 5 minutes to check my Facebook'. The 5 minutes turns into 20 minutes and that turns into 40. They are so focused on checking facebook that they waste their time sitting in front of a computer and letting their lives stop just so they can scroll through other people's lives. The heavy use of facebook could alter students’ attention on completing assignments. Anything which makes you lose your focus is a distraction. What causes distraction? The Student's mind likes to wander like a puppy sniffing around here and there. So the minute students hear the notification of facebook, their mind diverts towards it and distraction starts here. We all know that every task tends to make students less productive for the next task. Similarly, when students spend more time on facebook they give less time to their studies which result in poor examination results. Facebook being highly addictive, it has a distracting impact on students as it divides their attention. Additionally, it reinforces students to use it at late night which results in less sleeping time and the continuous use of it adversely affects their eyesight. As we had already mentioned, facebook is one of the social networking sites through which students can easily communicate with each other through messenger. Additionally, they can get news related to board exams. Student can attend live lectures and gain more information while sitting from the comfort of home. Although facebook is a great platform to communicate or gain information, nowadays hackers are using facebook who send scams which can retrieve student’s personal data. Moreover, being addicted, spending excessive time on Facebook can make students anti-social. This online world can cause them to become diffident and get disconnected from the real world. To be precise students can easily be distracted by facebook as it contains many attractive features. Do remember that “Time squandered on facebook can never be regained” so it is always better to set time limits for computer related activities.