Is having Facebook good or bad?

[Carolina Zerio]

On analyzing it, the group could only conclude that the results were inconclusive and mixed. Thus, the debate rolls on.

Key survey findings include:

96 percent of college students use Facebook; Grades of students who checked Facebook while studying were 20% lower than grades of those who didn’t check Facebook while studying; 79 percent of students did not believe that multitasking in the way mentioned above negatively affected their grades;

20 percent of students that use social media reported feeling connected to their institution;
75 percent of college students reported wanting to collaborate online.