Bibliographic Post #1
St. Aubin, E. (n.d.). We Are the Social Media Generation. The Pointer University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
St. Aubin, E. (n.d.). We Are the Social Media Generation. The Pointer University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
The topic of the article is that social media could be beneficial for students, but if study time is being replaced by scrolling through your newsfeed then it is a distraction. The purpose of the article is to inform the audience about how students view social media in college, whereas some see it as a distraction, while some find it helpful, and some feel that they are better off without it. In the beginning of the article, St. Aubin uses AOL Instant Messenger as an example as to how internet technology has evolved and has become what a lot of us know today as Social Media. We can still remember how our lives used to be without social media, but that is moving quickly behind us. 96% of college students use Facebook, making it a common social media tool, while the other 4% of students are being questioned as to why they don't have it. St. Aubin uses two college students as examples in her article, and asked them how they felt about social media. Students have made Twitter part of their daily lives, that they don’t participate in class discussions because they feel that they can’t speak until their thoughts have been edited and compressed into a “140 Character” mentality. I find the article interesting because it gives an insight about college students’s views on social media and how it affects their college lives.
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