Benefits to Middle School Students
How will opening up Facebook be beneficial to these young children that Facebook will allow to create accounts? Davis (2012) believes that integrating Facebook into young children’s lives will help to educate them about social media before they get in trouble with it. The majority of cyber bullying happens because teenagers are irresponsible with social media. By introducing its benefits early on and in a controlled environment, students will be able to use social media in a responsible way (instead of in a harmful way).
Some educators also see this potential decision by Facebook as opening up another way to help them teach their lesson plans more thoroughly, by using social media to connect with their students. They believe that with the introduction of integration between school and social media for young kids, teachers will be have another way to assign homework and that students will be better able to communicate with each other regarding group work.
Benefits to Facebook Corporation
Perhaps introducing Facebook to a younger generation will open some doors to educators on how they teach their lesson plans. However, because nothing is a one-way street, Facebook Corporation must also see some benefits for introducing its website to this younger demographic.
How will opening up Facebook be beneficial to these young children that Facebook will allow to create accounts? Davis (2012) believes that integrating Facebook into young children’s lives will help to educate them about social media before they get in trouble with it. The majority of cyber bullying happens because teenagers are irresponsible with social media. By introducing its benefits early on and in a controlled environment, students will be able to use social media in a responsible way (instead of in a harmful way).
Some educators also see this potential decision by Facebook as opening up another way to help them teach their lesson plans more thoroughly, by using social media to connect with their students. They believe that with the introduction of integration between school and social media for young kids, teachers will be have another way to assign homework and that students will be better able to communicate with each other regarding group work.
Benefits to Facebook Corporation
Perhaps introducing Facebook to a younger generation will open some doors to educators on how they teach their lesson plans. However, because nothing is a one-way street, Facebook Corporation must also see some benefits for introducing its website to this younger demographic.
Most obviously perhaps, introducing a new age group to their current
demographic, Facebook will be opening doors for the type of companies that will be
interested in advertising on the site. Suddenly, instead of just seeing advertisements for
General Motors and makeup brands, Facebook users will see advertisements for
Nickelodeon shows and Kraft Mac & Cheese. With the added interest that Facebook will
receive from companies targeting a younger audience, the company could potentially
make more revenue than it did last year with $3.7 billion (Troianovski and Raice, 2012).
However, there is another implication of introducing Facebook to middle school aged students. Facebook has much collaboration with different corporations around the world. It earns much of its revenue in this way. In fact, last year, 12% of Facebook’s revenue came from its partnership with Zynga Inc.- creator of games such as Farmville (Troianovski and Raice, 2012). By allowing younger children who are likely to play more games than the current population, Facebook will open itself up for not only more game- based collaborations, but also for increased revenue in this field.
However, there is another implication of introducing Facebook to middle school aged students. Facebook has much collaboration with different corporations around the world. It earns much of its revenue in this way. In fact, last year, 12% of Facebook’s revenue came from its partnership with Zynga Inc.- creator of games such as Farmville (Troianovski and Raice, 2012). By allowing younger children who are likely to play more games than the current population, Facebook will open itself up for not only more game- based collaborations, but also for increased revenue in this field.
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