16 July 2010

Study Finds No Link Between Social-Networking Sites and Academic Performance - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Study Finds No Link Between Social-Networking Sites and Academic Performance - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "July 15, 2010, 11:00 AM ET
Study Finds No Link Between Social-Networking Sites and Academic Performance
By Kelly Truong
Spend as much time on Facebook as you want—it won’t affect your GPA, a new study says.

Researchers at Northwestern University found no connection between time spent on social-networking sites and academic performance. The study, the results of which appear in the latest issue of Information, Communication & Society, included responses from approximately 1,000 first-year students at the University of Illinois at Chicago."