There seems to be an assumption in society that believes that the more time you spend on Facebook, the worse you do in school. However, as researchers have found that the time you spend on Facebook does not significantly diminish your grade! This may come as a shock to you, much as it was a shock to me but the proof is in the infograph!
The new study, and its detailed infograph, suggest that Facebook isn’t the death place of grades, and that spending too much time on the social network isn’t as bad as we all thought. According to the study, your average Facebook user spends about two hours per day on the site. If beyond that you spend an extra 1.5 hours, then your GPA (Grade Point Average) will only fall by around 0.12 points! That’s roughly like dropping from 89% to 88%.
However, how you use Facebook can affect your grades either positively or negatively. If you post a lot of status updates, the prediction is that it will effect your grades negatively. But checking up on friends and sharing links actually positively predicted grades. This still doesn’t mean that you should spend all your time on Facebook and not do your homework. All of those extra hours will show up somewhere, and that’ll be your report card.
Here’s a few more interesting facts that the study found: (check out the entire results here)
- The average student visits the site six times a day
- On average, they stay for about 24 minutes each visit
- The study found no strong link between using Facebook and the amount of time spent studying
Happy Facebooking and studying for upcoming finals!
The last bit of that infographic is especially important
correlation != causation