More than half of the population of the world actually uses social media and finding someone who is not using them is very rare, that it can even be seen as a strange occasion. And also, the vast majority of the adults use social media during a good portion of the day, that in fact resembles a lot of hours wasted only on scrolling down the wheel of the mouse, or swiping on a smartphone. Only a few friends of mine don’t use Facebook, because they see it as a big waster of time, so they have been able to resist using it.
It’s not surprise that some of the best students in my faculty deactivate their Facebook accounts, or they simply use it in a very rare basis, thus saving time, in order to concentrate more in their studies. I myself have sometimes reconsidered the possibility of deactivating my Facebook account, but it is a bit difficult, because most of the communication that I do with my friends is on Facebook, and I also get informed about a lot of things from this site, so those have been some of the main factors that have prevented me to make the decision of abandoning the most used social network of all time. But sometimes, I just log-in in order to reply to a private message or to get some information from the Facebook groups and end up scrolling down the mouse wheel for about half an hour without doing anything meaningful and entertaining at all.
As you can see in the video below, the usage of social media has become a normal part of students’ routine that they even check their Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. even while during the lecturers, in one of the best universities in the world, so it’s obvious that they can hardly remember what was even mentioned and talked about during that session.
I am not trying to say that you should leave social media and start a new life even though it can have a huge difference in your college success, but I am trying to say that instead of being so active in the social media, try to make some good habits of using it mindfully. Instead of receiving a lot of notifications during your learning session, try to mute them and focus in learning those nagging concepts that you had problems understanding for such a long period of time. Some of the productivity gurus always say that you should do a single task at a time, because multi-tasking lowers your IQ more than smoking marijuana.
Try to schedule a time at the end of your work-day, or a few times during your breaks when you can check Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube, so you can get more important things done and still not isolated from some of the most used services nowadays.
