Social networks in youth
A social network is a social structure composed of individuals, who relate to each other by a common purpose, the famous social networks represent a huge impact on the daily training of individuals, having advantages and disadvantages in their use.
They consist of a set of websites and applications that allow users to share content, ideas, feelings, experiences and communicate with a large number of users. Its rapid expansion is attributed to its ease of use, to the fact that they are shared instantaneously, their growing popularity and access through computers, mobile phones and tablets.
These also demolish communication and distance barriers and allow conversations and interactions in real time.
They allow and favor publishing and sharing information, self-learning;team work;communication, both between students and between student-professional;feedback;access to other sources of information that support and even facilitate constructivist learning and collaborative learning;And contact with experts.
Now more and more are seen learning platforms that are used to improve the participation and performance of students.
Therefore these are valuable instruments for innovation in teaching and the collection of ways to involve students effectively.
These days young people have a high knowledge and use of social networks, being currently a concern due to the great negative influence regarding the academic performance of students, but there is also an aspect in favor which is that thesame young people have great acceptance and disposition to use these social networks for an academic purpose.
These social networks have come to stay, and they cannot be set aside or taken lightly, they influence positively, when used with reco and moderation, since it is a means by which you can communicate, not just to chatand plan social events, but also to do homework and jobs.
The university students have grown under the influence of audiovisual and network. The new technological tools (social networks, blogs, video platforms, etc.) have given them the power to share, create, inform and communicate, becoming an essential element in their lives.
They have become an ideal space to exchange information and knowledge in a quick, simple and comfortable way. Teachers can take advantage of this situation and the predisposition of students to use social networks to incorporate them into teaching.
It has been seen that in the world, the most used networks according to the number of millions of users are Facebook (1.500 million), WhatsApp (900 million), Messenger (800 million) and Instagram (400 million).
Therefore, in the current one that is considered a digital era it is impossible that in relation to young people social networks are not mentioned as part of their daily life;Nowadays it is difficult to imagine a globalized world without technological tools such as social networks that allow quick and safe access to information in shorter and effective times than a few years ago.
These influence students’ life in a positive and at the same time negative way if they are not used correctly.
This is because the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) are growing at an accelerated pace and is leading to important changes in society, allowing information to be available to everyone and offering new communication channelsand entertainment. These tools introduce new paths of relationship between people capable of improving their quality of life and that are relevant in the company, teaching or health, among others.
In reference to the academic area, technological resources have modified the form of communication in the classrooms.
As is known, the academic training of the medical student implies a series of historical exercises and practices, which do not change over time, the only thing that changes are their actors.
Today the massive and unmoked use of electronic social networks has caused an ethical debate in this field, since students and medical professionals use these networks to relate to their colleagues and their patients, and as a medical tool that transcendsIts exclusive use at the work site, which, although beneficial, exposes them to the constant risk of crossing the limit between what is considered a professional behavior and what does not.
Because it has become an important aspect of its daily life that influences the form of interaction and socialization;They can be used by teachers as educational tools to exchange knowledge, information and ideas;That is, the use of technology in education, contributes to a more personalized, interactive and dynamic process.
36.4% use networks to inform themselves of the academic activities of the university. 39.4% rarely make comments on social networks. 91.2% have a group in the social network with friends. 82.8% use social networks to contact their friends and 35.2% of respondents state that they use social networks for research. The information shown is concluded that social networks are being used for academic activities, so social networks positively affect students’ academic performance.
In addition, it has been seen that the use of the mobile phone was a constant on Medicine Student Day with an average of 5 hours a day.
While it is true that the Internet has revolutionized education through information and communication technology, there are negative factors in the use of the Internet, as is the case of social networks addiction, which can result in a bassperformance in students who are dedicated only to "chat" on social networks, neglecting their professional studies.
The influence of social networks in students is a social problem that is increasing every day. It is claimed that there is a high index of students who have low school performance, absence to classes, due to the domain that social networks are having in their studies.
But when integrating ICT into education, it has been seen that cares for care needs and contributing to the performance of health promotion and prevention actions in the clinical and community field.
And students can assume more responsibility in their own learning, access a lot of information and learn anywhere at their own pace, as well as share knowledge and experiences, communicate with their classmates and increase their learning experiences.
In the Penn State College of Medicine they are using social networks as an educational resource in a humanities course, reporting benefits such as: writing succinctly, offering real -time answers about their tasks, increasing creativity, real -time interaction with teachers or expertson the subject of class and instant access to class materials.
And 84% of students say that social networks allow themThey believe that they encourage group and collaborative work.
Therefore the disadvantages of the use of social media cover the reduction of face -to -face interaction between people, sleep problems, anxiety and depression, concern for privacy, false identity, time consumption and, more importantly, addiction to social media that interferes with the performance of daily tasks.
The results of the studies on the effect of social media on the performance and qualifications of the students have been contradictory. However, in another study it was reported that the excessive use of social media ended up causing a gradual decrease in students’ qualifications.
Therefore, it can be concluded that social networks do not affect academic performance, but it is a tool that can cause future addiction in students and can become a tool so that student performance decreases.
Although it is reported that 87.7% of medical students use social networks for their learning and education.
It has been seen that university students make intensive use of social networks, which are part of their life and their daily tasks and are practically connected throughout the day.
And this is why a recommendation is to promote educational programs on the time and nature of the use of the mobile phone in the student population.
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