Tag: COLLEGE STUDENTS

A study recently conducted at the University of Maryland asked 200 students to give up social media -- we're talking Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, instant messages, text messages and so on -- for one entire day and to blog about the experience (ironic, we know). That doesn't sound like too much to ask, but judging by the results, reports the Huffington Post, the experiment was akin to solitary ...

Now that we have more communication devices and methods than we can handle, perhaps we should look to the college kids to show us the way forward. Indiana's Ball State University recently surveyed about 300 college students, and found that text messaging is their favored form of telecommunication, becoming more popular than e-mail, instant messaging and calling. 94-percent of the students ...