Sep 08, 2010
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Paul Kirschner, one of the authors of the study, quoted that the problem is that most people have Facebook and other social networking sites, email accounts and instant messengers constantly running on the backend while carrying out their tasks. He suggests that their study and other previous work say that people may think constant task-switching allows them to get more work done in less time. But in reality it extends the amount of time needed to carry out task that leads to more mistakes.
The research team carried out this study among 219 students aged between 19 and 54 at an American university.
Facebook users among them had a typical grade point average (GPA) a score from zero up to four with an average of 3.06 while non-users had an average GPA of 3.82. The ones who did not use the site said that they devoted more time in studying. While three quarters of Facebook users said that they did not believe spending time over website hampered their academic performance in any ways.
