Social Media Infographic
This is an interesting infographic – Is social media ruining students?. It addresses social media and education posing as it does some interesting challenges for us as educator. If you have a look at the stats for facebook it adds weigh to the comments expressed in the image. Consider these as you read below: (source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics )
- More than 500 million active users
- 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- Average user has 130 friends
- People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
Also read the facebook fact sheet - http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet
source: http://images.onlineeducation.net.s3.amazonaws.com/Social-Media-and-Students.jpg
So is Social Media good or bad? Or is it just a medium which we as teachers can use (exploit)?
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