Social networking applications like Facebook provide efficient platform to communicate. Social networking applications like Facebook offer an efficient platform for the activities of the bersosial students by expanding their friendship networks and relationships. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

VIVAnews -Social Networking Sites like Facebook could help the learner interaction in social and academic, which ultimately the results of the study improves. This conclusion is drawn from studies conducted by researchers in China and Hong Kong.

A group of researchers from the University of science and technology of China and the City University of Hong Kong, their findings contradict an understanding at this time that the social networking site is a bully who turned his concentration of study.

Their findings, published in the International Journal of Networking and Visual Organization, thus revealing that online social networks have a direct impact on social learning and positive can affect the academic learning.

"The pattern of social networking on Facebook is in the form of the method of core and periphery. Each individual has a close relationship with the core friends and relationships are far too many other friends, "call it one of the researchers,. as quoted from UPI, media 14 May 2011

To this end, social networking applications like Facebook offer an efficient platform for the activities of the bersosial students by expanding their friendship networks and relationships.

In a survey, it is known that Facebook connect students are familiar with teachers and other students. They offer a platform to communicate and share knowledge. Facebook also offers the Group of the facilities for students to participate in and discuss various topics, collaborate, and education use for managing learning activities.

"In the future, educational institutions may need to take active (but controlled) If this is to take advantage of social networking applications like Facebook to the process of learning," call of the researchers.