I was one of the first administrators to realize the hazards of social media, publishing in The Chronicle of Higher Education a January 2006 article titled “Facing the Facebook” and warning: “Information technology in the classroom was supposed to bridge digital divides and enhance student research. Increasingly, however, our networks are being used to entertain members of ‘the Facebook Generation’ who text‐message during class, talk on their cellphones during labs, and listen to iPods rather than guest speakers in the wireless lecture hall.”
Michael Bugeja (Sun,) studied this question.