Facebook users get low GPA in college

Archived from the original Sajha.com — preserved as posted, replies can no longer be added here.

Archived Post

    Founder of facebook Mark Zuckerberg is a hardvard drop out. College students who use Facebook have significantly lower grade point averages (GPA) than those who do not. According to the study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University, students who express their membership regularly to the 200-million-member social network do worse in school tests. "In fact, the majority of them who Facebook daily do worse by as much as one whole grade," said the researchers. Karpinski said, "our study shows people who spend more time on Facebook spend less time studying. Every generation has its distractions, but I think Facebook is a unique phenomenon." The study, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association on April 16, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that the GPAs of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5 for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers.

ANS · May 1, 2009 2:07 AM · 15,995 views

5 Replies

The same thing for sajha too dude..

Jesus Soaltee · May 1, 2009 2:40 AM

Moral of the story: Those who steal pictures from FB and post it to Sajha are surely going to be repeating college ;) haha

dekchidriver · May 1, 2009 2:52 AM

hahaha..absolutely wrong...I got 4.0 GPA .i used both Sajha.com and Facebook. 24/hrs....Sharing of knowledge doesn't lower your GPA. Infact I got lot more and More

mampakha · May 1, 2009 6:56 AM

hya ma every one  hour ma sajha and facebook check garchhu! ani hapta ko 2 patak keti pani hanchhu, gpa 3.9  chha kyare! it does not work for all!

Dandan Ago · May 1, 2009 7:37 AM

The study, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association on April 16, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that the GPAs of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5 for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers. I don't see why this is absolutely wrong. I kinda agree with this result - social media are addictive, and they're good ways to procrastinate, which will hamper one's performance if one isn't good at time management.

commando · May 1, 2009 7:49 AM

This conversation is preserved exactly as it was on the original Sajha.com and can't accept new replies.

Start a New Discussion

Facebook users get low GPA in college

You might be interested in...