Yes, blackboard and email are good to use for academic purposes, but there are also things that can distract you from understanding it. A. Facebook and YouTube are two applications that can distract a user from work done on the computer. In the article “Impact of Facebook Use on Student Academic Achievement: Role of Self-Regulation and Confidence” a team ran a test to see if a student's mass use of social media would influence their his vote positively or negatively. After distributing the paper test to 239 students, the results showed that people who used social media the most performed poorly on the test while those who didn't use it as much performed normally or above average. This shows that there are many applications that can optimize the university experience, but there are also applications that can harm it. Besides social media, another program that can easily distract a student is YouTube and this happens harmlessly when a student might be looking for a song to listen to during their work and finds a video that seems interesting and soon after realizes that they are pass three