DJ's Hypertext

Topic Proposal

My Hypertext intends to deal with the addiction that students all across the country are facing. The addiction isn’t drugs or alcohol, but rather the addiction is the social media outlet Facebook. Everyday millions of students log on to Facebook to chat with their friends and to partake in some of the thousand applications that Facebook has to offer. Students sometimes find themselves wasting time away on Facebook instead of working on all the homework that they have due the next day. In my hypertext I intend to look at all of the distractions that Facebook causes in the academic arena. In broad terms my topic is new technologies vs. academic achievements, however more specifically my topic is looking at the role Facebook plays in distracting students from reaching their academic potential.

Right now it is estimated that there are 300 million users on their Facebook page right now. Don’t these people have anything better to do? The goal of this website will be to examine the role that Facebook plays in academic achievements for students, education in general, teachers, parents, and on the schools. The students are effected because they could see a decrease in their GPA because they are spending time on Facebook instead of studying like they should be. This issue affects teachers because they are going see a decrease in their student’s performance. Parents of the students and the schools themselves will both be affected because they will be disappointed in the students’ academic performance. Most importantly, education is taking a back seat to new technologies, and this is a problem that society faces in many areas.

It would be interesting to see how many hours students waste away on their Facebook instead of doing schoolwork. I speak from personal experience when I say that I have wasted several hours of my life sitting at my computer on Facebook doing absolutely nothing. This is not an anti-facebook website because Facebook is a great way for people to stay in touch. However, there comes a point when Facebook no longer becomes a way to communicate with friends, but instead it becomes an addiction.