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Reduce Wastage of Time Due to Excess Usage of Social Networking Sites by Upper Primary Students in Singapore

Reduce Wastage of Time Due to Excess Usage of Social Networking Sites by Upper Primary Students in Singapore

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Started by Anonymous 13 years, 10 months ago
Upper primary students are taking their first major examination PSLE that will affect their future. However, Social Networking Sites (SNS) act as a distraction from studying. The impact of excess usage of SNS may be more significant in students than adults as they are not mature enough to handle them. Thus this problem needs to be solved as soon as possible because time wastage on SNS interferes with students’ daily lives and open doors to dangerous situations that can lead to serious social problems. One of the negative impacts include fall in grades, deteriorating relationship with family and friends, increase risk of developing anti-social behaviours. These effects are actually far fetching and can lead to further loss of interpersonal skills, poor career prospects and even slowing down our country's economic growth. Therefore we hope to garner support from you guys to petition for MCYS to reduce this wastage.

Updates

November 22, 2012

The stories shared in the comments prove how pervasive this distraction has become. I am currently compiling these experiences to present directly to the ministry.

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Jason May
13 years ago Featured

Too much distraction. PSLE is serious stuff and they are just wasting time scrolling instead of doing their work. fix this.

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Wei Jimenez
13 years ago Featured

my son is on his phone all night instead of looking at his textbooks. he is going to fail psle if this keeps up. something needs to be done about these apps.

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Sarah Ford
13 years ago Featured

kids these days have no social skills at all because they are glued to screens. it is ruining their future and causing so much stress at home. total nightmare.