The Importance Of Social Media In The Classroom

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Social media, what does this word mean? According to Oxford dictionary, social media is websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. Social media is an important thing in our life. In opinion, it became a contemporary language. We know news nowadays by using it. Social media are considered to be an important factor of students’ success in their social and scholar 's life. Moran, Seaman, and Tinti-Kane (2011) did a study in one of the faculty and the results proved that 77% of the students who responded have social media engagement, and 60% stated that they use social media in the classroom. Improving communication skills, gaining self-confidence and self- esteem, and knowing …show more content…

I’m one of the people who improve their communication skills by social media and particularly Facebook. I was an introvert person who doesn’t not like to speak with any strange people. When I used social media I started to chat with people whom I know and I do not know. Communication is a very important way in forming relationships with the people. And communication has appeared since the cave man. With the development of the technology, it became easy to communicate and to share ideas with others, just by a mouse click. “There is a positive relationship between using Facebook and forming and maintaining social capital, which is defined as ‘the resources accumulated through the relationships among people’’(Ellison, et al, 2007, p. 1145 cited in Junco, Merson, & Salter, 2010, p. 162). So the writer claimed that using social media strength the relationships between the people and maintain the social relationships between the communities. And I completely agree with him as I call my friends always by Facebook to prevent their sadness and therefor I maintain my social relationships with my friends and my …show more content…

One of them is that it increases communication skills among students. The second effect of using social media is that it helps students to gain more self-confidence and self-esteem. The last one is it spreads the happiness and positive feelings between students. Last but not least we should know that everything we post on social media express our personality and our character. So, we should know which personality we want to be known as. It was said a lot about social media. It was said that it may contribute to and distract from the healthy social development of people, and enhance or inhibit productivity in the workplace. But we should be neutral in our opinions and we should speak about the positive side of it. “Over the years, many university programs have been conducted to help establish social support networks once students arrive on campus. Several of these programs have focused on developing peer-led support groups” (Mattanah et al., 2010) (pp. 92–108). Which illustrates the importance of using social media to the students. So, these universities interested in supporting social networks on their

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