Obviously each student and the case will vary depending on the student, but generally it is believed that social media has something positive. According to “Can social media impact learning?” by Lisa Gonzales and Charles Young, social media has been found to increase student engagement, foster collaborative community learning environments, and promote teaching and learning (para. 1). Social media increases student engagement because it “helps students share information, communicate ideas, and create videos to extend and enhance their learning and demonstrate their mastery of content and skills” by allowing students to connect with each other (paragraph 2) . As students combine and share ideas, they are able to feed off each other for creative and innovative collaboration that would never have happened without social media. In Social Media: Usage and Impact, Ronald A. Yaros argues that individuals who are given the opportunity to interact with each other learn from each other. Yaros states that this derives from social learning theory which “considers psychological functioning as a continuous mutual interaction between person and environmental determinants” (p. 58). To put it simply, individuals can learn more from the people they interact with than from themselves (p.