{"id":218458,"date":"2010-01-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/students_and_social_networking"},"modified":"2010-01-13T15:29:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:29:36","slug":"students-and-social-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218458","title":{"rendered":"Students and Social Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"person at computer\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/socialnetworks10.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/>I feel like every day I read something that tells me watching TV or being on a computer is going to rot my brain, but this morning was the first time I heard a <a title=\"study on students and social networking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/videos\/news\/social_011210.html\">positive study<\/a> that said spending lots of time on <a title=\"social networking\" href=\"http:\/\/answers.usa.gov\/cgi-bin\/gsa_ict.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=7972&amp;p_created=1195137503&amp;p_sid=87I8eURj&amp;p_accessibility=0&amp;p_redirect=&amp;p_lva=&amp;p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9Mzk1LDM5NSZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PXNvY2lhbCBuZXR3b3JraW5n&amp;p_li=&amp;p_topview=1\">social networking sites<\/a> didn&#8217;t have any negative effect on students&#8217; grades. So all that time I spent finely tuning my Facebook skills in college was apparently not making me any dumber. <\/p>\n<p>Plus the study found that many students who used social networking sites used them for educational reasons or to hunt down job opportunities. It&#8217;s all about who you know in the job market these days and students might be able to expand those networks through sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USAgov\" title=\"USA.gov's Facebook page.\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking to build your social network to include more educational and informative sources, I&#8217;d recommend following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.gov\" title=\"The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal\">USA.gov<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pueblo.gsa.gov\/\" title=\"The Federal Citizen Information Center provides answers to questions about the federal government and everyday consumer issues.\">Pueblo.gsa.gov<\/a> on Twitter (<a title=\"usa.gov on twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/usagov\">twitter.com\/usagov<\/a> and <a title=\"pueblo on twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pueblo81009\">twitter.com\/pueblo81009<\/a>) or become our fans on Facebook (<a title=\"usa.gov on facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USAgov\">facebook.com\/USAgov<\/a> and <a title=\"pueblo on facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pueblo81009\">facebook.com\/pueblo81009<\/a>). We post updates several times a week on topics that are both newsworthy and interesting. You&#8217;ll get information on the latest recalls, how to apply for student loans or grants and important health advisories. <\/p>\n<p>If you find the information helpful, make sure you share it with your friends on your own social networks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like every day I read something that tells me watching TV or being on a computer is going to rot my brain, but this morning was the first time I heard a positive study that said spending lots of time on social networking sites didn&#8217;t have any negative effect on students&#8217; grades. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}