I read an article about Facebook affecting exam results. The article focused on a test on students during school time. They looked on the students using Facebook during their school classes(even if they just had it open without looking at it more than once) and the students not using Facebook. The students with minimal Facebook use scored 20% higher on their exams than the students heavy users of Facebook. Students have been asked and most of them says they don't think Facebook is affecting their school work. This have now been proven wrong. The statement that Teenagers can work on several things at once have now been called in to question. I personally believe the use of Facebook during class is a big problem, even though i at times do it myself.
"While people may think constant task-switching allows them to get more done in less time, the reality is it extends the amount of time needed to carry out tasks and leads to more mistakes." - Professor Paul Kirschner. This is a comment by a respected professor. What he says is very true. Most teens believe as far as i know that multitasking helps you do things faster. It has though been proven by psychiatrist and other researchers that people in any age have problems with switching what you are doing often.
The test was taken on 219 students from the age of 19 - 54. Facebook users scored a 3.06 out of four while the non-Facebook students scored a 3.82. The article itself was written very well and understandable with relatively mature English, but still in a sense that most English speakers can understand it either they speak English as a 1. or 2. Language.
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