Investigative Report Blog

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In the study lounge in Findlay Commons, you sit at a desk noticing how people around you seem to be diligently working on their homework.  You have your laptop open, typing up a research paper for a class, and you feel you phone vibrate.  Curious, you take it out and see that it was a Facebook notification.  This starts the chain reaction, to open your browser, log onto Facebook, and see that your friend had posted a comment on your wall.  You then read other statuses, and post birthday messages to people, who you barely know.  Before you realize it, you spent ten minutes on the paper, and two hours on Facebook.  Now it’s ten o’clock at night, and you type up a paper, worthy of trash.  People often go on Facebook to check what’s new and feel that they are connected when they read other people’s post and pictures.  They often multitask homework with Facebook, and unknowingly pass the majority of the time on Facebook instead of their work.  We tend to make careless errors when we are distracted, and Facebook is the perfect distraction.  Not only is it found on your computer, it could also be on your phone, which makes it all the more distracting.  Some might even say they are addicted to Facebook, where deleting their account seems like an implausible feat.

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Mike George-Freshman

“I don’t use Facebook too often, just use it keep involved sometimes.”

            “Facebook is a huge distraction for some, thankfully, I don’t have this problem.”

Anonymous-age 38

            “I use Facebook to connect with my peers, as well as family.  I don’t go on it often, but I use it to keep in touch, and know what’s going on in my friends’ and families’ lives.”

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Facebook connects so many people together, that anything can become viral. An example would be having to pay for the service

            http://www.nbcsandiego.com/blogs/press-here/130546308.html

Something such as Facebook could start a big movement

            http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351070/Egypt-protests-Twitter-Facebook-blocked-Government.html

Grades could possibly go down

            http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10217704-71.html

People could seem addicted to Facebook

            http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-23/health/ep.facebook.addict_1_facebook-page-facebook-world-social-networking?_s=PM:HEALTH

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I feel that I also need to talk about twitter, and other websites that distracts people on the computer.  Maybe even change the question to what causes GPA declines for students.  I want to research more about the companies of Twitter and Facebook, and see what comes up, statistically.