Madhai Singh Pd 5
English. 1/12/15
Essay

Social media has taken the world by storm. It is usually the younger generation that uses social media than any other demographic. It is amazing as to how the Internet is revolutionizing and changing people's lives. For example, social media can be a huge distraction. The internet is a network that allows everyone to become a different person. Also, schools had enough of students abusing social media networks in school. Social media must be banned from schools.

The internet has provided our world with different means of communication and access to anyone at any second. The result is led to social network becoming a huge distraction especially towards students. It becomes such an addiction that they aren't able to control it anymore. The Kaiser family foundation reported that children ages 8 to 18 spend approximately 7 or more hours using social media networks and entertainment per day. To make this clear when you add text messaging, the hours soar up to 11 hours a day which is horrible for students. " People are paying more attention to the environmental stimuli at the expense of focus ( Anthony Wagner ) He is trying to say that students today would rather waste their time on social media instead of focusing on the things that will be beneficial to them later in life. This is one reason why social media should be banned.

The internet is an easy way for people to escape their reality and create an altered image of themselves online. Social networks give people the ability to turn into a different person. A study done by the Ohio State University demonstrated that students who utilize Facebook and other social media sites spend less time studying and typically have lower grades than those students who do not use these popular sites. Social media changes students into a different person when they are available to these social networks because it opens a source towards attention.
Social media sites should be banned from school libraries even though students still have their phones to utilize during the day. The University of Colorado had implemented a system on their library computers on March 9th, 2012 where twenty two of the university's library computers had a permanent block on social media sites. Schools shouldn't have social media networks available on school networks. It will cause students to do less work. " Rory Lewis agrees with this compromise and believes that libraries at schools around the nation will start offering these social media less computers in the future."

Some people might say like Rachel Sprung that, "The most recent news are on social media." However, this causes students to become. more distracted and addicted because this is all that they are going to focus on social media and not education. For example, it states that," Students who are heavy social media users tend to have lower grades. Students becomes so caught up with social media that they forget about everything and their lives becomes centered around social media.

Overall, social media ha a strong grasp on the world today. Social media should be banned from schools. It causes distractions, it allows everyone to conform and it causes students to abuse social media while in school. Seeking a lot of attention toward this problem will benefit students to do better in school and encourage them that they are better things to life than relying on social media.

Works Cited

"Are Social Networking Sites Good for Our Society? ProCon.org Updates Popular Website on Social Media - ProCon.org." ProConorg Headlines. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2015.

"Rachel Sprung." Social Media Examiner RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2015.