It is high time we come to terms with the fact that social media is taking over and dominating in people's lives, just this afternoon I came across on a very powerful article on Times Live via twitter on how social media is dominating and that we put so much effort and time in social networks instead of something more valuable such as academics or corporate.
Research conducted in the University of Kwazulu Natal shows that a number of students graduating with cum Laude decreases every year and this year stood at 4% out of the 86% graduates. This is not only frustrating but shows lack of stability and how social media has become a drug overnight. A drug where one ‘get hooked on it and then it consumes you, gives you reason to return to it and eventually makes you dysfunctional as you struggle to meet deadlines or even have imagined "insomnia" caused by the desire to chat and follow friends in the world of social media’. Times Live
The article further elaborates that ‘The obsession with social media has the potential to widen the divide between people who have general knowledge versus those with particular knowledge (specialists). Young people in tertiary institutions and those newly graduated to the workplace are facing the danger of not accumulating general knowledge because they are consumed by social media and thus cannot achieve excellent results worthy of cum laude or suma cum laude status’.
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