Mariah Richards
Edited by: Erin Hillard, John Morelli, Amber Brown
MySpace has been in the news lately because of cyber bullying, but college students have another reason to be concerned with social networking sites. They are taking up valuable homework time!
“I spend more time looking for bumper stickers on facebook, than doing homework,’ said mid-Michigan Community College student, Carmen Butler. “I always think it’s funny when I see one that says something like “Bumper stickers are my anti-homework.” I think ‘that’s so me.’”
Some students don’t see the problem. “Homework is boring,” said CMU student, Elisha Richards. “I try to spice up homework time by adding applications on facebook, or filling out surveys on MySpace. But I don’t really think it’s a problem. It interferes with my time when I want it to, not the other way around.”
Other students find that facebook and MySpace are convenient, but not all that addictive. “I don’t even have a MySpace,” said CMU student Ashley Wilson. “I have a facebook, but I use it more for messaging my friends. It’s really convenient to message from facebook as opposed to email, because I can never remember people’s emails.”
People dislike social networking sites for a variety of reasons, one them being that they are very impersonal. “I prefer to remain off the grid,” said CMU freshman Brian Cable. “If people want to get in touch with me, they can do it the old fashion way. They can call me.”
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