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Networking is considered Schlüsseldiziplin for professional success. Good grades also. Both together is evidently not. Whoever much time spent in social networks, has on average the poorer grades. To this result the researchers from Ohio State University in a new study.
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Facebook in the eye and the mind: Prokrastination 2.0
For the study the researchers surveyed 219 college students, of whom 148 were registered with Facebook, one of the most popular networks on the Internet. In their study achievements were members of the online community, on average, half a step worse than grade students of the comparison group.
To reach the Facebook friends of 3.0 to 3.5 grade points, while their fellow students from 3.5 to 4.0 grade points achieved. The value 4.0 corresponds to the U.S. staff of a German "one." The lower the value, the worse the score.
The students see no connection
"There is a significant relationship between the use of Facebook and weak notes," says Aryn Karpinski, author of the study. Especially Undergraduates, so younger students, were among the members in Facebook. But even among students in higher semesters makes the noticeable effect: The networker among them also have the worst scores were Karpinski and her colleague Adam Duberstein from Ohio Dominican University issued.
The students themselves, however, saw no direct link between their leisure time and grades: Nearly four-fifths of the respondents deny that their grade point average slightly worse with the use of Facebook to do.
Karpinski told the magazine "Time", from the study can not be directly deduced that the only bad note which would be caused by Facebook. "Maybe Facebook users tend to simply
Prokrastination and can be easily distracted. "It is quite possible that other factors such as personality characteristics of both the academic achievements as well as the use of Facebook influence." If Facebook did not exist, these students would probably find other ways to avoid studying "said Karpinksi.
Facebook users: "How small children"
The Facebook members get on average only one to five hours per week, the researchers found out. Non-users, however, take every week from 11 to 15 hours to study for her to learn. Instead of a lecture to follow, would students with Facebook accounts the network via laptop use to send messages to friends and to keep contact.
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The researchers were surprised by the results of their study, however, does not. Already in the past, research findings social communities like Facebook a bad certificate is issued.
For example, the Oxford neuroscientist Susan Green Field in February found that persons who have a lot of time in online networks spend, have problems over a longer period of time to concentrate. Facebook and Co were designed to offer its users constantly short of success experiences to offer. Users would be "like little children" a quick reward of their efforts expected.
Even in Germany, students often spend several hours daily on the Internet, as an examination of the university information system (HIS) and the Multimedia Kontor Hamburg.
Internet abstainers, there are few, most of the surf every day at three hours - and every hundredth is even ten hours per day online.
You control most students regularly Wikipedia, but when their time is by no means primarily the study. A large part goes to the maintenance of contacts in networks such as StudiVZ, Facebook, MySpace or Facebook drauf.
The Doctor Antin Aryn Karpinski has itself no Facebook account, and their university exams, it has with the U.S., there were 3.8 staff - so very good. My co-author Adam Duberstein is a member of the Facebook community, and has 25 Friends.
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