...the fundamentals of research methods in a better manner and apply them in everyday life. The insistence on taking up a socially relevant topic like the use of Facebook helped me to understand if the said topic really affects the academic performance of the students. Introduction Overview Social networking websites are currently being used regularly my millions of people. The use of social networking sites has been widespread that they have not only caught the attention of academic and industry researchers worldwide but also me, in particular. Social networking sites are now being investigated by numerous social science researchers and an increasing number of academic commentators are becoming more and more interested in studying Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking services, because of their probable impact on society. While the social networking sites have the same key aspects, the cultures and responses around them that become apparent are varied. Most sites help strangers connect with others based on shared personal interests, political and economic views, or simply recreational activities. Some sites accommodate distinct viewers, while others attract people based on similarities, such as common languages or shared racial, sexual, religious or nationality-based identities. Nonetheless, social networking sites have...
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...INTRODUCTION Nature and Importance of the Study Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks. Social media is defined as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content." Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. They introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations, communities, and individuals. These changes are the focus of the emerging field of techno self-studies. Social media are different from traditional or industrial media in many ways, including quality, reach, frequency, usability, immediacy, and permanence. There are many effects that stem from internet usage. According to Nielsen, internet users continue to spend more time with social media sites than any other type of site. At the same time, the total time spent on social media in the U.S. across PC and mobile devices increased by 99 percent to 121 billion minutes in July 2012 compared to 66 billion minutes in July 2011. For content contributors, the benefits of participating in social media have gone beyond simply social sharing to building reputation and bringing in...
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...Introduction Social Network is the most common network used by people having an internet connection. This is also the most widely used networking site in internet. This networking site is used for informing others and recreation. In this generation students can prove that social networking is the reason why high percentage rate of people can be identified. One of the social networking sites is Facebook. It has a lot of aspects and features that can help people to be entertained easily. The importance of Facebook is for us to have conversation like chat and video calls. One of the reasons why many students used Facebook is because they are easily influenced by other people who use Facebook too. The researchers want to determine why the students are said to be easily influenced by others, to know the effects of having facebook in minimizing their time in doing home works and a lot more. The purpose is for the researcher to determine if Facebook can positively or negatively affect the academic performance of the respondents. Statement of the Problem This study aims to know the effects of Facebook to the academic performance of the selected fourth year high school students of Amazing Grace School S.Y. 2013-2014 and the purpose is to know if the effects will positively or negatively affect the academic performance of the respondents 1. How often do the respondents use Facebook? 2. What are the effects of using Facebook on the academic...
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...EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK USAGE TO STUDY HABITS AMONG NCM 105 NURSING STUDENTS OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY A Research Proposal Presented to: FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF NURSING OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY QUEZON CITY CAMPUS By: Carlo A. Silvestre Lyka Vain T. Jacinto Dyan Elenita C. Rafael Christian G. Casuncad Vina C. Custorio Sarah S. Cali (January 2011) CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM: ITS RATIONALE AND BACKGROUND Introduction Social networking websites are currently being used regularly by millions of people. The use of social networking sites has been widespread that they have not only caught the attention of academic and industry researchers worldwide but also us, in particular. Social networking sites are now being investigated by numerous social science researchers and an increasing number of academic commentators are becoming more and more interested in studying facebook, twitter, and other social networking services because of their probable impact on the society. While the social networking sites have the same key aspects, the cultures and responses around them that become apparent are varied. Most sites help strangers connect with others based on shares personal interest, political and economic views, or simple recreational activities. Some sites accommodate distinct viewers, while others attract people based on similarities, such as common languages or shared race, sexual, religious or nationality-based identities. Nonetheless, social networking sites...
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...Does Facebook Have Generally Positive Psychological Effects? Does Facebook Have Generally Positive Psychological Effects? Valerie Helfman PS101 Introduction to Psychology Does Facebook have a generally positive psychological effect? Yes, Studies have shown that humans are social creatures and we like to make new connections and to communicate our opinions and to listen to others, and through regular Facebook status updates that pop up in our friends news feeds or vice a versa we are able to do this. Facebook use has become a part of millions of people’s daily routine, whether it is to update a status, reply to a message or even to read the News. Facebook has provided both positive and negative psychological effects. Negatively, Facebook has provided a site which can be used for cyberbullying along with an extreme influence on education. And because people may only post positive status, people tend to get the impression that all is well in their lives and they have no problems. And this could lead to feeling that their lives are boring and sad as and recent studies indicated as to how children and teenagers feel because of this. Facebook is also a distracting site that can make you lose track of time and distract the mind from more important matters. . . Facebook has generally provided positive psychological effects on the multiple sections of society. Positively, Facebook has revolutionized the...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE INTRODUCTION Facebook usage helps people to get information in a way to communicate, and most importantly, the way people interact. The importance and Relevance of using this kind of social networking is growing stronger with its rapid development of technology. Facebook is known to be the largest and most used social networking site nowadays. However, there are also different factors that affects to the students either negative or positive. Its benefits to the students is that through facebook they may use the site to interact with people they already now or to meet new people, staying connected with friends, keeping up to date on news more quickly, for creative expression, to experience global exposure, lots of great resources and information can be get. On the other hand, there are also negative effects that could really contribute on using Facebook among students, those factors are; Students does not care about the surroundings, there will be less social interaction, privacy blow up, Reduce time for study, less family concern and bad for health. The extent of student’s in academics may be determined by its grades that a student earns for a period of learning. It is believed that a grade is a primary indicator of such learning. If a learner earns high grades it is concluded that they may also have learned a lot while low grades indicated lesser learning. However, there are factors also to be consider which affecting the study habits...
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...“Behavioral effects of Facebooking of the Students of USEP-CGBE” In Partial Fulfillment of the Course in English “Writing in the Discipline” Presented to: Ms. Cherry Ann G. Pilapil-Cutad Presented by: Dayanara Basio Rose Jean Orbuda Lovely May Ando Jomel Culejara Wilson Tambara March 08, 2012 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study One of the most trending networking sites nowadays is what they called facebook. Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family and business associates. It is the largest among the networking sites, with the runner up being MySpace. It began as a college networking website and has expanded to include anyone and everyone. Facebook was founded by 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and originally called thefacebook. It was quickly successful on campus and expanded beyond Harvard into other Ivy League school. With the phenomenon growing in popularity, Zuckerberg enlisted two other students, Duston Moskovotz and Chris Hughes, to assist. Within the months, thefacebook became a nationwide college networking site (Josie Myers, 05 December 2011). Dealing to this social networking site, facebook is not really bad at all. Somehow it gives advantages to people such as giving better communication to your friends and even family abroad. It also helps you to find jobs in a convenient ways. But then again there is always a disadvantage in other side of the situation. According to outsider’s view...
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...mediating effect of relatedness on Facebook use and self-esteem Abellera, Nadine Angeli C. Department of Psychology, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines (nacabellera@gmail.com) ISSN: 2243-7781 Online ISSN: 2243-779X Ouano, Jerome A. Department of Psychology, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines (ouano_j@yahoo.com) Conway, Gail D. Department of Psychology, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines (gee.delapaz@yahoo.com) Camilotes, Liza Mae C. Department of Psychology, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines (lizamaec@gmail.com) Doctor, Hannah Mae L. Department of Psychology, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines (misshannahdoctor@yahoo.com) Received: 10 November 2012 Available Online: 30 December 2012 Revised: 15 December 2012 DOI: 10.5861/ijrsp.2012.298 Accepted: 22 December 2012 Abstract Facebook, a popular social networking site, can serve as a venue for the enhancement of self-esteem. Why this happens remains unclear. Drawing from Positive Psychology and Self-Determination Theory, the present study investigated the effect of Facebook use on self-esteem as mediated by relatedness. Employing a cross-sectional non-experimental design, the mediation hypothesis was tested among 467 college students who agreed to answer the questionnaires. From the results of multiple hierarchical regressions, it was found out that Facebook use did...
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...CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This study aims to know on how Social Networking Media “FACEBOOK” effects the study habit of the college students nowadays. According to the article “The Effects of excessive use of facebook to the Study Habits of BC25 students of Suniversity”, it say’s that students can easily communicate with one another.Communicating to other people can be easy by using facebook eventhough a person is miles a way from you, and through this they gain new friends.But still facebook had its bad effect on the part of the students, Facebook has become the biggest distraction for students when trying to get homework done. Students using facebook most of the time would end up getting lower grades. Paul Kirschner, author and professor at the Center for Learning Sciences and Technologies at the Open University of The Netherlands, say’s that "The problem is that most people have Facebook or other social networking sites, their e-mails and maybe instant messaging constantly running in the background while they are carrying out other tasks, the students who used Facebook had grade point averages of 3.06, which doesn't seem too bad when the scale goes from 0.0 to 4.0.However, those who turned off the social media network when it came time to hit the books had a typical GPA of 3.82. In addition, non-users also said they studied more often...
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...Impact of Facebook Addiction on Academic Performance of Filipino Students Mart Anthony D. dela Peña Comm2 – C2 Mrs. Noemi Agner March 15, 2012 The Impact of Facebook Addiction on Academic Performance of Filipino Students Thesis Statement: Although Facebook has offered various benefits to the Philippine society, its addiction has become a major problem on the academic performance of Filipino students. Outline: I. The History of Facebook II. Facebook as a Social Network A. Facebook Profile 1. Facebook Photos 2. Facebook Groups 3. Facebook Events 4. Facebook Developers 5. Facebook Notes B. Facebook Chat and Messaging III. Facebook Addiction A. Facebook Addiction Defined B. Causes andNature of Facebook Addiction C. Status of Facebook Addiction in the country IV. Impact of Facebook Addiction on Academic Performance ofFilipino Students V. Ways in Minimizing Facebook Addiction in the Philippines The Impact of Facebook Addiction on Academic Performance of Filipino Students Facebook has paved the way for a faster, more comfortable and efficient social interaction.Even though many social networking sites preceded it,Facebook is the current biggest social networking sitewith over six hundred million users worldwide and it has an annual growth of 45.2% (Inside Facebook gold, June 2011).In addition, it has more than 28 million users in the Philippines which ranks no. 8 in Facebook statistics...
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...FOUNDATION Daet, Camarines Norte COLLEGE OF EDUCATION EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS In partial fulfilment of the requirements in Social Studies 4117 Research in Social Studies Cydrick B. Andaya (BSEd-IV) Researcher Ms. Celia Gatacilo Research Adviser CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Facebook, otherwise known as FB, is the largest online social networking site in the world with 1.15 billion users all over the world, 757 million of which checks their Facebook account daily. Users of Facebook can create a personal profile, add other users as friends, send and receive messages and post videos and photos that other users can comment, share or like. It also gives vast array of news and information almost instantaneously through the ‘pages’ that a user can ‘like’. It was founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Originally for college students, it continually grew and became accessible for everybody who has an access over the Internet. Over the course of time, Facebook has become increasingly popular over college students. Without it, student life is almost unthinkable (Debatin, et al., 2009). According to Fleire Castro, a social marketer, 32% of the population or around 34 million Filipinos are active Facebook users in the Philippines. It is estimated that Filipinos...
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...Psychological Effects of Facebook on Teenagers and its Overuse As if parents did not already have enough to worry about, now they need to worry about their children displaying negative psychological effects from over-using Facebook and other social networking sites. New research revealed August 2011 by Dr. Larry Rosen, a psychology professor at California State University, makes it official what some parents already suspected -- our kids are getting sort of screwed up when they spend too much time on Facebook. On a more upbeat note, the study also showed a few unexpected benefits of social networking online. Negative Psychological Effects of Facebook from "Overdosing" Thus far, Rosen has made a 25-year career out of studying the influences technology has on people. His latest research, which examines teens and Facebook, was conducted using 1,000 teen surveys and observation of 300 teens actively studying. It concluded that multiple negative psychological effects could result from spending too much time on Facebook and other social media sites. Negative effects of facebook on teens who overuse this social media include: Teens who use Facebook frequently may become narcissistic. If you are not already familiar with that term, dictionary.com describes narcissism as an, "inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity." Most likely these are not the character traits you desire for your child. Teens who have a strong Facebook presence may display psychological...
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...Negative and Positive Effects of Facebook Use Facebook has taken the world by storm with more than 500 million users. The use of Facebook has many implications on self-esteem and personal relationships both positive and negative. 93% of college students have a Facebook account and spend on average 47 minutes a day on Facebook. My research on this topic is to inform the general user of the risks and rewards of Facebook. I believe this research is important as a Facebook user myself to know what potential risks I am taking and what potential rewards I can expect. The research question was what is Facebook and what are the positive and negative ramifications on self-esteem and social relationships as a result of using Facebook. My research is based on the literature review of scholarly articles. This research paper will show that Facebook use has many positive and negative effects on self-esteem and personal relationships. Review of the Literature Definition of Facebook Facebook as defined by Tokunaga (2011) is a social networking site (SNS) created in 2004. Facebook since its origination has grown have the largest number of users with more than 500 million active users. 30% of Facebook users are within the age 18-25 demographic. Social networking sites are web-based services that allow people to create a public or semi-public profile within a limited system, formulate a list of other user with whom they share a connection and view and navigate their list...
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...The Effect of Social Media Network on Student’s Attitude towards Social Life CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Research Question 1. Is there any relationship between the Satisfaction of User and the Trust of those students who use Social Media Network daily in their lives? 2. What are the independent factors involved that effect the dependent variable such as Social Behavior of the student while using Social Media Network Sites on daily basis? 1.1 Background Social Media Networking is considered to be one of the most important means of communication for young generations and most importantly for the students in today’s advance technology. In today’s communication world, Facebook is considered to be the most visited website (Wilhelm, 2010). The elements which influence the youngsters or student’s decision to use social media networking is still a mystery. In order to understand the social networking, this study is an attempt to understand and explore the student’s behavior that what makes them so eager to get connected in the social networking and what effect take place in their behaviors or attitudes while using social networking (O’Reilly, 2007). The term Social Networks have a different meaning in the literature, as to some of researchers who have a different set of meaning Socially & Interactive Technologies. This can be anything such as messaging and text messaging or other networks which provides online communications that allows youngsters and students...
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...negative effects of facebook . Facebook is a widely used social networking system throughout the world. Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Besides various positive sides, facebook has some negative effects which go beside our eyes. But sometimes they may be harmful or threatful for the users. Sometimes facebook can cause wastages of our valuable time ,create psychological problem, violate the security issues and Social Ethical Problem. It is sometimes responsible for Sexual Harassment ,Decreasing Productivity, Wrong Information and Violence as well as Distance with Family and Friend We are grateful to our honorable teacher FARZANA PERVIN CHOWDHARY for giving us an opportunity to research about such an interesting topic. We all the group members of the group (ANTACID +) have researched the topic and collected information from different sources. All of us enjoyed doing the job with combined and coordinated. Table of contents Page No: * About Facebook 03-04 * Negative sides of Facebook 04-06 * Wastage of Time 09-11 * Psychological & Health Problems 12 * Security Problem and Virus 13 * Crimes 13 * Social Ethical Problem 13 * Sexual Harassment 14 * Decreasing Productivity 15 * Wrong Information and Violence 16 * Distance with Family and Friend 16 * Irrelevant Use 17 About Facebook HISTORY...
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