Facebook Confessions Can Make People Unemployable

In a recent report by The Telegraph, it is said that those students who make weird confessions about their lifestyle on Facebook may get in trouble for their future employment. Since social media is being used by recruiters and various companies’ human resources division to check on how their employees are in real life and as in person, it has become fairly common to search for various online social networking profiles of people. The one social network that obviously tops the list is Facebook.

Many amongst the British students have been sharing their tales of “accomplishment” for lewd behavior and heavy drinking. They have been warned against such misconduct as it reflects on them as to who they really are. On the one hand it might be useful to see what kind of people one is hiring for work, but on the other hand, those students who just get involved in such activities merely to fight peer pressure or to keep up with a group of “cool and hip” people at a school or a college, do this without realizing that this is not actually them.

What would be really “cool and hip” to share is the kind of hobbies one has and the kind of books one read. Movie choices and music taste is also considered welcomed, but not stories about heavy drinking or any other indecent behavior that one might think of as an achievement. In the UK, it has become a serious problem with many confession pages being ‘Liked’ and poured tales into. Whereas these very pages become an easier place to see for a future reference, they become hard to delete when you don’t know what you have written and where exactly.

The lesson is for everyone, including adults and not just students, because switching jobs in this shifty global economy has become a norm. It is also a problem for universities and colleges to have their students confess to things from which these educational institutions get into trouble of not watching over their students and their repute get questioned. Students can then get into serious trouble for creating a mess, not so much in their lives, but for the authorities at a school or a college.

Social Networking Can Help Students Learn Better

According to a new research study from Israel, students who use social networking sites, like Facebook, can get better grades than those who don’t. The Ben Gurion University in Israel had found that the information found on the social networks could be used to determine which students need more attention and can help in improving their skills. Although teachers and parents will find this research report as a way to boost in Facebook’s traffic and popularity, but there could be truth in it.

As much as parents and teachers would dislike this of report that will encourage them to stay online while they should be doing their homework, it really is something which the instructors can explore. Internet surely is a good tool to make students learn easily. There are so many fun websites online from where students can both learn and enjoy learning.

Facebook can be a great social network for students to join from where they can play apps as well as study from links and posts shared on great pages which help toward learning history, science and mathematics. Instilling in learning kids the habit of getting to engage in debates with friends online and chat on forums for young kids will give them an edge later in life as they will be used to all of this. It will make them apply these learning easily.

However, students should also be taught to learn from books and reading material, like newspapers and magazines. Because time spent online should in no way hinder in their regular learning processes. If all this report tells us, it is that students should be given their time on social networking sites for the benefits they give them rather than making them keep away from it all on the pretext of wasting time.