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Students in the University of Maryland research were asked to give up all media for a day .For the research, titled "24 Hours: Unplugged," 200 students at the University of Maryland's College Park Campus blogged about their experiences after a day of giving up all social media. The project director Susan Moeller noticed that what they wrote at length about was how they hated losing their personal connections. Going without media meant, in their world, going without their friends and family." The students missed not much of the media but the social connections that it facilitates. Social media seems inevitable in this 21 century

Ezy, this is a great example and shows how connected we are with the social media. I wonder if they have some demographic information in the research. How do their responses change based on age, gender etc.

I can relate to that article. I sat in my camper last nite and didn't feel very good. Maybe that was related to the fact that my cell phone was my only means of communicating with others? :-) I realize things are changing, but its crazy to me how accessible people are these days. I find at work that there is a tipping work on the other extreme where being contacted too much has a negative effect.

Using FriendFeed to aggregate activities on up to 58 different social media sites. The article talks about how FriendFeed is used a a reader in order to look at all of your social networking sites from a single source.

Keeping college students and their professors connected through social media outlets could be key in boosting graduation rates, education technology experts said during a panel discussion at Social Media Week in New York.

This blogger speaks about social media and how it can lead people to think they have real relationships with people when they don't. It also can lead to poor social skills. Interesting because I recently was watching a reality dating show where a contestant was offended that people did not read his blogs. I'll call that a false sense of "celebrity", lol.

Timely article. Akin to banning social media in the classroom?

This had some good information on grade-appropriate levels for tools

This article states how it is becoming important for individuals to become familiar with the various social networking tools because they will be necessary in the workforce.

This is a very good resource. Let's share that in the class on Monday.

This is an interesting read about a professor's experiment with social media in her classrooms. Good read.

Interesting article being that we are learning how to integrate these tools.

Here is a research article that examines some of the obstacles to the development of media education in the U.S. I think it is interesting being that we discussed how in other countries, they really utilize technology in the classrooms.

This is a handout that teaches what to tell kids and adults what to look for when utilizing social media.

This is an article/study for those interested in social media on the graduate level.

This page contains a link to a recent report called, "Youth Safety on a Living Internet". I didn't read through all the report, but there appeared to be a great deal of information about online safety for kids that pertained to social media.

Social media is going to rule the Web until at least 2012