Causal argument 4 pages

· No less than 4 pages causal argument researched essay

· Includes an interview with an expert from a university

· Includes survey question with students concerning the topic

· Includes arguments from official sources from the library

Causal argument

What are the likely consequences of students living more of their lives via social media?

Social media is here to stay and that is a fact that everyone needs to understand based on the millions of users that they have today and many more that continue to come on board. Additionally to this, there are video blogs and blogs. Students are actively involved in all of these online societies. It is therefore important to look at the different effects that social media can have on the youth and more so the students.

The most vital thing in the life of a student is studying, gaining knowledge and acquiring good habits to become a people with decent character. However today, as we have seen in various studies, this best process of learning is critically jeopardized by students being trapped by the schemes of social networking. Students abandon their studies by using time on social media sites as opposed to studying or socializing with people in face to face (Jackson & Newberry, 2012). Frequently and actively participating in social media have negatively affected their grades or hampered their expedition to their potential careers. 

Getting a lot of involvement in social media has led to a habit that inculcates awful habits. Students would rather chat with friends on social media for hours, and this result to wastage of time that would have been utilized for playing, learning new skills or studying. It is normally said that long-term relationship or friendship is built when people meet, spend time together and share experiences (Skog, 2005). However, this social media means of communicating with one another does not guide to a friendly, natural experience and therefore cannot create a healthy friendship with these friends. In addition, these friendships are likely to end easily as a result of lack of personal touch. 

The problem that the students face today is that they are so much relying on the accessible information that is at their exposure on the social networks and the web generally to find solutions to their problems. This implies that there is less focus on learning and also on maintaining information. Additionally, students are trying to multi task. They are busy looking at different social sites as they are studying. This has led to reduced academic performance. Apart from that, their capacity to pay attention to their jobs at hand has greatly reduced as a result of the disruption that they get from the social media.

Another likely consequence of students living more of their lives on social media that is very clear is that they are spending a lot of their time on the social media sites and a lot less time on personal personalization. As a matter of fact, there is clear absence of non verbal cues and other body signals including inflection and tone in the case of social association sites. Therefore, these sites cannot be regarded as a satisfactory replacement of face to face interactions. Apart from this, students who spend a lot of their time on the social media sites are not capable of communicating face to face with other people in an effective way.

In order to get a clear understanding of these consequences that I have discussed about the consequences that students who spend much on social media have, I would go for information from students and particularly those who spend a lot of time in social media. The reason why I would go to these students is because they have a firsthand experience e with the issue. These students would be able to give a firsthand experience of how spending too much time on social media has affected them.

The interview and survey questions include:

· How much time do you spend on social media?

· How has spending this time on social media affected you in person and those around you?

· What’s the importance of being “liked” in social media?

The people I will interview is students who use a significant amount of time in social media since they will be able to give accurate information on exactly how this has affected them and the consequences they have had to deal with.

References

Jackson, D. & Newberry, P. (2012). Critical thinking: a user's manual. Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

Skog, D. (2005). Social interaction in virtual communities: The significance of technology. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 1 (4), 464-474.