A study by Ohio State University researchers has found a link between Facebook use and lower college grades. They also found that people using Facebook tend to study less.
"We can’t say that use of Facebook leads to lower grades and less studying - but we did find a relationship there," said Aryn Karpinski, co-author of the study and a doctoral student in education at Ohio State University.
"There's a disconnect between students' claim that Facebook use doesn't impact their studies, and our finding showing they had lower grades and spent less time studying.”"
While this was a relatively small, exploratory study, it is one of the first to find a relationship between college students' use of Facebook and their academic achievement.
Typically, Facebook users in the study had GPAs between 3.0 and 3.5, while non-users had GPAs between 3.5 and 4.0.
This shouldn't really be a big suprise. Facebook does seem like an excellent procrastination tool. Just logging in to check what your friends are doing for a few minutes suddenly becomes half and hour. A similar loss of time can occur on other social networking sites if users don't manage their usage carefully.
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