Quote Response #1

Quote Response for "Magazine Essay Title" by Author's Full Name, found here:

New Words:

“ Maybe [Facebook users] are just prone to distraction. Maybe they are just procrastinators.” Karpinski told Time.com in a phone interview on Monday, April 13.

Definition entries for new words from Longman Advanced Dictionary:

•Prone: likely to do something or suffer from something, especially something bad or harmful.

•Procrastinators: to delay doing something that you ought to do, usually because you do not want to do it.

Explain what the words mean in the way they are used in the sentence you chose:

-Prone is used in a way that explains how Facebook users could suffer when it narrows down to their grades and GPA’s.

-This word is used in this sentence to show that students prefer to be online on Facebook rather then doing their homework or studying.

New Idea:

The study, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association on April 16, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that GPAs of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade point lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5 for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers.

This idea helped me realize that I should spend less time on Facebook and that it is true. I agree that it could drop a students GPA. I have personally experienced were I am in the library and at least three people are on Facebook during school. It would be hard for me to understand that they where completely done with their homework or just didn’t have to study. In my case since I have a Facebook I know that I do get on it at least to check on the updates two times a day if not more.

Tie-In:

John Kamin, 23, a student at Hofstra University in New York who uses Facebook, says it's "absurd" to associate the social network with poor grades or lack of aptitude. "It's a networking tool for people," says Kamin, who adds that he spends about an hour a day on Facebook, far less time than he spends playing the addictive game Brick Breaker on his BlackBerry — there's that question of users' distractability and tendency to procrastinate. But, Kamin says, "I don't think someone is more or less intelligent because they sign up for it."

Tell a detailed story from your personal experience to explain the TIE-IN:

In my experience with social networks including facebook as one, I would agree that it does take up a lot of your personal time and that it can be addicting. At work I have spent ten hours logged on to Facebook. Even while doing homework I always tend to have a tab opened. In respond to what the article said about lowering grades and GPA'S that could be true in most cases. To me I feel like it does effect my study time and that it could get to the point of lowering my grades.