CHAPTER 1

THE INTRODUCTION
Introduction
Social networking sites, most notably Facebook have become so popular today
that they are leading words on the lips of every students. You love to spend most of your
time checking your Facebook updates, but do you know that there are many negative
effects of using Facebook?
Most of the students dont realize the negative effects impacts of Facebook on
their life. And, the main reason is because they are already addicted to it. And, this
addiction can lead to several negative developments.
The main purpose of this paper is to suggest some ways of minimizing the bad
impacts of Facebook to students and to show you the negative effects of this social
networking sites on students behavior and performance. This research also focused on
finding ways to enhance students motivation and improve their achievements, yet
without looking closely at the sources for their demotivation or academic failures.
Study Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004,
owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one
billion active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. Users
must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add
other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when
they update their profile.

Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by

workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into
lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". Facebook was founded by Mark
Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo
Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard
students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and
Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at 5 various other
universities before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13
and over.
In May 2005, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and Jim Breyer
added $1 million of his own money to the pot. According to a May 2011 Consumer
Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts and 5 million
under 10, violating the site's terms of service. Facebook is beneficial to one's social life
because they can continuously stay in contact with their friends and relatives, while
others say that it can cause increased antisocial tendencies because people are not
directly communicating with each other. But some argue that Facebook has affected the
social life and activity of people in various ways.
With its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to
continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they
are in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. It can also unite people with
common interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has been known

to reunite lost family members and friends because of the widespread reach of its
network. 6 Facebook also continues to prompt debate about users behaviors.
The effects of online activities on themselves and their interactions with others
have been discussed extensively. In particular, students are a main class of Facebook
users who spend long hours on the social network, which has worried parents and
educational authorities about their academic performance. The students themselves
argue that their presence on Facebook, as a leisure activity, does not hinder their
academic efforts, though some evidence suggests that their grades decline after they
join Facebook.

Statement of the Problem

This study aims to determine the relations between the Christ the King College
(CKC) Grade 10 students usage pattern of social media and their level of school
performance.
Specifically, this study intends to answer the following questions:

What is the usage patterns of social media of CKC Grade 10 students based on
the following:
1.1. type of gadget/s that they used;
1.2. website or applications accessed;
1.3. reasons for accessing the website or applications, and;
1.4.frequency of use of the social media in a week?

What is their level of academic performance in terms of their:

2.1 exam results;
2.2. participation in classroom activities;
2.3 submission of projects and assignments, and;
2.4. tardiness and absences?

What is the relation between the CKC Grade 10 students usage pattern of social
media and their level of school performance?

Scope and Limitations of the Study

This study will be conducted to determine the effects of playing computer games
to the academic performance of Junior High School Students of Christ the King College
during the school year 2016-2017. The research tries to discover the gaming patterns of
junior high school students and its relation to their current academic performance.

Operational Definition of terms

The following are the terms used in this study. The words are defined according
to how they are utilized in the study for better comprehension of the study.
Housing Project- refers to the project that provide housing unit for the
unprivileged homeless.
Housing Program- a program that provide housing for unprivileged homeless
citizen which includes additional programs like livelihood.
Housing Beneficiaries- the recipient of the housing program and the one
occupying the unit.
Condominium unit- a residential unit that is being occupied by a beneficiary
Illegal Settlers- group of people living on land having no legal claim to or the
homes and plan do not follow codes and regulations.
Squatters- group of people who unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or
unused land. It also refers to squatter settlement, slum or shanty town.

Significance of the Study

The study will benefit the following: students, teachers, parents, and researcher.
Students. The students will educated about the effects of using social media in
lessons. The result of the study would help improve their academic performance on
specific subjects.
Teachers. They will have the perspective on the effects on the students of
integration of social media to the lessons. The outcome of the research maybe used by
the teachers in order to create an effective learning programs.
Parents. The parents would also gain from this study. They will have an idea on
how social media can be an effective tool in developing their children. Likewise, they will
be educated on how students use social media properly.
Lastly, Researchers. Aside from enriching their knowledge on the research topic,
the researchers would also enhance their knowledge on writing research which is the
main goal in the execution of this study. Furthermore, the research would also help
future researchers that may have the same topic with this paper. They may use this as a
source to conduct their study.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This section presents the related literature and studies after the thorough and indepth search done by the researchers. This presents the idea of who are the users of
Facebook, the impact of Facebook to the students and the concept behind the
Facebook Effect.
The Users of Facebook
Social networking sites let individuals to present themselves, and begin or keep
connections with others. Santos (2014) explained that extremely popular social network
site for students in different levels, Facebook, has already printed a big impact on their
lives. The site can be used towards work-related contexts, romantic relationship
commencement and connecting those with shared interests. Members may use the site
to mingle with people they already know offline or to find new friends. Facebook permits
its users to present themselves in an Internet profile, build up "friends" who can post
comments on each other's walls, and view each other's page.
Facebook associates can also join groups based on common interests, see what
things they have in common, and learn each others' hobbies, interests, favorite music,
and romantic relationship status through their pages.
The Impact of Facebook to Students
But what are behind these facts? What does Facebook bring to the lives of the
members especially to the students? How does Facebook affect the life of a student?

According to studies, Facebook has an impact to students. Some students are

using it for educational purposes. Students would like to do some online collaboration
with classmates. It is said that Using Facebook boosts students self-esteem even more
They would feel belongingness in the community compared to those who do not have
accounts. It also provides news on what are happening in the real world and even in
their school campuses.
On the other hand, negative effects flourish. It was found that social networking
sites has formed a new kind of addiction which we called the "social media addiction"
and it is quite true in using Facebook. Are you addicted to Facebook? Some would say
"yes" and some would say "no". It depends on the level of cravings. But in the recent
study, it was found that a lot of students are by now addicted to it, to the extent that their
school performance is affected. "
Children who spend much of their time online find it harder to focus in class and
have short attention span " researchers found through the samples that 7 out of 10
teachers believed that their students are becoming obsessed with social media sites
such as Facebook. Their students tend to study while using Facebook and it shows that
they got 20% lower grades.
Facebook-using students even perform task (projects or assignments) without
completion for the reason that they spend more time scrolling down on their newsfeed
to see updates about their friends and look up for their notifications rather than finishing
their school tasks.

Aside that Facebook affects students academic performance; it also has an

effect on students emotional health. Yes, students feel connected to others but study
shows that they manifest depression through seeing their status updates. Some would
utilize the site to express what they feel towards their enemy in school or even outside
the campus.
They would blurt out through posting status that would target their opponent just
to hurt their feelings. With the rampant use of all the social networking sites, students
are coming loose to the real associates.
Facebook chats and posts would make them busy nowadays. They 12 may be
connected to many people but they somehow disconnect with the important aspects of
their lives and one of those is education. The belief of meeting people face to face
seems very odd. Students prefer to send and receive instant messages or post
messages through Facebook. Many other elements could be the reason for the
inattention in studies of students. But somehow social networks like
Facebook have a negative impact on the education of some students. Facebook
could make students vain for better or for worse and it is the parents' obligation to watch
and guide their children to get the utmost good benefits from Facebook How do Social
Networking Sites Affect Students? Most of the time, students spend their time hanging
around the web with the popular social networking sites. Everyday, more and more
people are getting more attached to Social Networking sites as it is now moving in as
one of the primary means of communication of people. tells me that spending an

inordinate amount of time on Facebook is related to negative outcomes, while just

checking Facebook for a few minutes each time is not, he wrote.
The Facebook Effect
One thing that listening to really successful people talk does to me is to make me
think how small I am. People like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have
been my heroes for some time and it is not because they are probably the most
influential people in the world, but because of how much they understand about our
world.
These leaders and innovators are truly inspiring human beings. Watching a few
interviews with the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, I was dumbfounded by the
world he lives in. It?s really amazing to hear people with so much influence talk to
ordinary people about the effects of their creations and try to bring themselves down to
the level of ordinary people. And it was awesome to know how much Facebook has
grown these past few years. The last time I checked, Facebook had over 500 million
users who go online with active profiles. I checked how many Christians there are and
found out that they number two billion. So in less than a decade Facebook has
managed to get a quarter of what Christianity has succeeded in converting to a way of
life in 2,000 years.
Sometimes it can also be depressing when others dismiss us as just another
face. I guess that not too many Filipinos are aware that Facebook has received so much
criticism. It is not that I think they are not aware of what is going on in other countries. It
is more a case of not being able to relate rather than not knowing or caring enough to

learn about other countries. Facebook has revolutionized the way we interact with other
people by making it easy for us to connect and share things we like and to read about
and know our friends.
It has made complex human interaction simpler; it made things that were already
there easier. It has simplified how we live our lives. But sometimes, simplicity can be
dangerous. If we live an over-simplified life, we tend to overlook how hard life really is. It
is like putting a tiger that is used to the troubles of the forest in a zoo where everything
is provided for it. It is just there to be viewed.