Is Facebook ruining students?

Is social media ruining students? This question was asked by onlineeducation.net and they gathered data from different sources to investigate this question. This research has proved that social media has both positive as negative influence on students; the outcome is not really a surprise. Students who use social media like Facebook and Twitter welcome online engagement and resources; around 75% of student respondents said they liked to do some online collaboration for class. Also, social media may have a positive impact on students’ sense of themselves in the community and 20% more of Facebook-using students felt connected to their university and community.
                Negative influences of social media on students are logical, while all the time students spend on social media they cannot spend on their study. This will negatively affect the results of the students, in fact those that multitask between Facebook and studying have 20% lower grades. A more remarkable outcome of this research is that students might actually end up feeling more depressed or lonely. Almost half of students believe they are sadder than their friends on Facebook, and 25% of college students have shown signs of severe depression in their status updates at one time or another.
                I think it is an interesting small research, but little surprising or valid. Nevertheless, after reading the results of this ‘study’ I am wondering what is the effect of blogging on the performance of college students?