Impact of Social Networks in Mexican Universities

Abstract

Social networks (SN) have been adopted by university students as a tool to achieve several academic activities like communicate and collaborate with peers, and to keep in touch with distant relatives and friends. However, social networking is a time consuming activity that has some effects in students’ life. To determine how social networking is impacting students’ life, university students (n = 150) at a small northwest university in México were surveyed on their use of social networks. Student responses indicate that social networking support academic activities among peers like communicating, collaborating and learning, but they also show that students get distracted easily and their academic work is not completed in time.