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The impact of Social Media on academic life In this report we will be discussing a whole range of topics on how social media has had a massive impact on academic skills. The reason why we choose this as a group is because we all know how big social media and also social networking sites has had a massive impact on us and also a lot of people not just youngster but adult as well so this research/project really fits in our age democrat and our day to day lifestyle. We split the research and presentation evenly so between the three of us know one had too much to do or too little to do. As a trio I believe we worked well as a team even though we only knew each other’s couple weeks prior the group research was given out. No matter what people do everybody socialise with different people whether if it’s on the phone, computer, work, school, colleges and even universities. What we really want to know is why it has a massive affect on people’s academic life, seeing as people mostly use social media networking sit es to communicate with family members and friends. The issues that will be discussing in this report will be: †¢ What is social media †¢ History on how social media expanded †¢ Several different types of social media †¢ Advantages of social media on academic life †¢ Disadvantages of social media on academic life †¢ Our view on social media on a whole and conclusion What is social media? Social media is interacting with people using the internet. Having varies of social channels, websites that allows you to blog communicate, upload pictures and videos are all different types of social media. This allows you to share information with one another. Social media is increased throughout the years, every other month and new social media ... ...attending our meetings or lessons we will let the teacher know and also deal with the matter ourselves. This risk assessment shows what we have planned for any risk that may accrue while doing our project. We also showed what and how we would handle them as a team. Few of the risks above did occur to us which is what we put it in our risk assessment. References Dave Kerpen (June 7th 2011). Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (and Other Social Networks). New York: McGraw-Hill Companies. 25-30. http://webtrends.about.com/od/web20/a/social-media.htm (website) http://www.icrossing.co.uk/fileadmin/uploads/eBooks/What_is_Social_Media_iCrossing_ebook.pdf (book/webiste) http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/cyber_bullying/ (website) Spot light news by John Puecell (newspaper article)