Aaron Sorkin’s story of Facebook, now adapted as the film “The Social Network,” highlights how a website called Facemash revolutionized social networking by evolving into one that has more than 500 million users today.
It’s interesting to note that people signed up for Facebook using their college e-mail in its early days of inception. What makes Facebook attractive today is probably because it is still relevant to students and contines to dominate the social networking world as a preferred favorite.
Last month, a college in Pennsylvania blocked its students from Facebook, Twitter and all other social networking sites for a week. An unconventional experiment indeed!
Recent studies have shown that students who use social networking websites while studying actually score lower grades than others who don’t when they decide to hit the books.
It’s easy to say that one should set aside a fixed time for going online and that parents should monitor their kids’ online activities, but kicking a habit is hard.
In my opinion - spreading awareness is the first and best step to reaching that great milestone.
