Authors Information

Queencel B. Enriquez was born on January 26,1992,residing at Wawa Ilaya, Lemery Batangas. She is a second year college student taking up Bachelor of Science in Psychology in Lyceum of the Philippines UniversityBatangas.She dreamed to be a Psychologists since childhood, her curiosity about what is Psychology is all about brought her to a new beginning of her life. She would like to work on how can she be a way for the special children to enhance their talents within them and how can the special children can interact with the society without fear in their environment. She would like to pursue her studies in Social Psychology and Developmental Psychology on what nature-nurture can help individual personality to developed. Contact no:09995119260 Email address:queencel_enriquez@yahoo.com

FACEBOOK: A Survey in Psychological Statistics

Queencel B. Enriquez
February 2011

Table of Contents
An Introduction to Facebook Results of the Survey Descriptive Statistics o Frequency Distribution Table Table 1 - Sex Table 2 - Age Table 3 - Ordinal Position Table 4 Course Department Table 5 - Year Level Table 6 - Amount of Money Spent Table 7 - Applications Used Table 8 - Number of hours spent Table 9 - Number of Friends

o Inferential Statistics o T test Difference between sex and number of hours spent Correlational Statistics o Pearsons correlational coeffient Relationship between number of hours spent and number of friends o Spearmans ranked- order correlation Relationship between topics posted on Facebook o Reference

Introduction to Facebook
Facebook isnt just for teens and young adults. It is a wonderful and practical way for people of all ages to keep in touch on a regular basis and share information with friends and family. The Facebook social network has revolutionised keeping in touch over the internet. Friends and family can now connect with each other in a network of relationships, sending emails, playing trivia quizzes and games, sharing photos and generally having casual day-to-day contact that is often difficult due to geographical distances and busy lifestyles. As with all internet applications, it is important to consider security issues before completing the Facebook registration. It is safer to limit "friends" to people who are personally known and adjust settings on the site to ensure that only approved friends are able to view any photos or information. It is possible to prevent a date of birth or address appearing on a homepage and this is also a practical intenet safety precaution. SEX Male Female frequency 8 17 % 32 68 Cumulative f 8 25 Cumulative f % 32 100

N = 25 100 The above frequency table shows than there are more female respondents in the survey than male. There were 52% female and 42% male respondents respectively.

sex

Results of the Survey

Descriptive Statistics
female Male 0 20 40 60 80

Table 1. Frequency Distribution of sexes of 25 selected students from different Colleges in Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas who participated in the survey on Facebook Use

Percentage between female and male respondents in the survey on Facebook Use

Table 2. Frequency Distribution of Age of the 25 selected students in the Survey on Facebook Use Age 15-17 18-20 21-23 frequency 20 1 4 N = 25 Class midpoint 16 19 22 Midpoint frequency 36 20 26

(4%) of the respondents age ranges from 21-23 years old, And (16%) of the respondents age ranges from 18-20 years old. On the large portion of the study (80%) are from 15-17 years old.

Table 3. Frequency Distribution of the respondents based on Ordinal Position in the Family Ordinal Position f % Cum f Cum f %

The table illustrates the age interval of the 25 selected students in the survey. There are more students who belong to the age bracket of 15-17 years old,age 18-20 age bracket and students who belong to 21-23 years old age bracket. Most of the respondents came from first year and second year level.

Eldest child Middle child Youngest child

5 13 7 N = 25

20 52 28

5 28 35

20 72 100

21-23 years old AGE 18-20 years old 15-17 years old 0 5 10 Percentage 15 20

The table shows the frequency distribution of the respondents based on ordinal position in the family. There are 5 respondents who are the eldest in the family they are the 20% of the population sample. 52% of the respondents are the middle child and 28% are the youngest.

Percentage of the respondents based on age

ORDINAL POSITION IN THE FAMILY

Table 5. Frequency Distribution of the respondents based on their Year level Year level First year Second year Third year f 14 7 4 N = 25 % 56 28 16 100 Cum f 14 21 25 Cum f % 56 84 100

youngest child
middle child eldest child 0 20 40 60 80 Percentage 100 120

Percentage of the respondents ordinal position in the family. Table 4. Frequency Distribution of students on their respective department courses Courses Psychology Parallegal Education Information technology Nursing f 5 5 5 5 5 N= 25 % 20 20 20 20 20 100 Cumulative Cumulative f % f 5 20 10 40 15 60 20 80 25 100

The frequency distribution showed that (56%) of the respondents are first year and (28%) second year college students. The (16%) are third year students.

YEAR LEVELS

THIRD YEAR SECOND YEAR FIRST YEAR 0 5 10 15 20 Percentage 25 30

Percentage of the respondents year level The table shows the frequency distribution of the respondents of the survey on their specific courses are all (20%) Psychology, Parallegal, Education, Information Technology and Nursing students. The graph illustrates that there are more first year and second year students who participated in the study than third year students.

Table 6. Frequency Distribution on the amount of money spent by the respondents in using Facebook per day.

Percentage of the amount of money spent by the respondents in using Facebook per day. The graph shows that there are more respondents spending large amount in using Planned Internet Connections in Facebook per day. Some spent Php60.00-90.00 and there are only few spent Php15.00-45.00 in facebook per day. .Table 7. Frequency Distribution on the Applications used by the respondents

Amount spent Php 15.0045.00 60.00-90.00 Planned

f 7 4 14 N=25

Cum f 7 11 25

% 28 16 56 100

Cum f % 28 44 100

The frequency distribution table showed that 28% of the respondents spent Php15.00-45.00 in using Facebook per day. 16% spent Php60.00- 90.00 in using Facebook per day. And 56% used Planned Internet connections like Globe Broad band, Cable Promos, Smart Bro etc.,

Applications Used Farm Ville Backyard Monster City Ville None

f 6 3 16 N=25

Cum f 6 9 25

% 24 12 64

Cum f % 24 36 100

Amount of Money spent

The table shows that the respondents Application most used when using facebook is 64% City Ville, 24% of the respondents play Farm Ville. And 12% of the respondents use to play Backyard Monsters.
Planned Php60.00-90.00 Php15.00-45.00 0 20 40 60 80 Percentage 100 120

Graph: negative skew; skewed to the left.

none City Ville Backyard Monster farm ville 0 20 40 60 80 Percentage 100 120

Table 9. Frequency Distribution of the respondents number of Facebook Friends Class Below 100 101-300 301-above f 2 3 20 N=25 Xm 100 200 300 Xm*f 200 600 6,000 Xm*f= 6,800

Percentage of Facebook Applications c by the respondents. The graph shows that there are more students who play City Ville than the other application in facebook.

Measures of Central Tendency

Table 8. Frequency Distribution of the respondents number of hours spent in using Facebook per day.

mean= 8.333 modal class= 301-above

Inferential Statistics
The data are the number of hours spent by 25 selected college students of LPU-Batangas who were randomly chosen as participants in the study on Facebook use. The researcher wants to find out if there is difference in the number of hours spent by between male and female sexes.

Class 1-3 4-6 7-9

f 19 5 1 N=25

midpoint 2 5 8

f*midpoint 38 25 8 f*xm= 71

mean= 8.333 modeclass = 1-3 median= 2.316

Female 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 2 2 2 5 Mean = 2.465

S = 1.127 S2 =1.270

Male 2 2 2 5 5 8

The researcher is interested in the relationship between number of hours spent in using facebook and number of facebook friends. To find out whether the correlation is significant. The results are as follows:

Mean= 4
S = 2.449 S2 =5.998

Conclusion: Males spent more hours in using facebook per day (Mean = 4) than Females (Mean= 2.465). the difference between the Male and Female means was significant.

Student # of hours s spent(x) A 2 B 2 C 2 D 2 E 2 F 2 G 2 H 2 I 2 J 5 K 2 L 2 M 2 =29

# of friends(y) 100 300 300 300 300 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 =3500

X2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 25 4 4 4 =73

Y2 10,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 40,000 40,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 90,000 =990,0 00

XY 200 600 600 600 600 400 400 600 600 1,500 600 600 600 =7,90 0

Correlational Statistics
Pearsons correlational coefficient

df = 11 r critical = 0.553 r= 0.095

rxy= 0.095 rcrit= 0.553 fail to reject Ho

Conclusion: There is no significant relationship between no. of hours spent on using facebook and no. of facebook friends. Spearmans ranked-order d2 2.25 0 0 4 12.25 380.25 56.25 225 121 2.25 30.25 36 16 196 20.25 400 81 56.25 42.25 49 400 81 289 4 210.25 d2 = 2,714.5

Spearmans ranked-order correlation

Relationship between topics posted on Facebook

Person A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y

Friends 2 4 4 2 6 7 3 2 3 7 4 2 2 10 10 1 4 2 2 9 1 4 6 2 5

Jokes 5 8 8 6 8 2 9 10 10 9 6 3 4 6 9 10 5 8 7 8 10 5 3 6 4

X rank 17.5 10 10 17.5 6.5 4.5 13.5 17.5 13.5 4.5 10 17.5 17.5 1.5 1.5 22.5 10 17.5 17.5 3 22.5 10 6.5 17.5 7

Y rank 19 10 10 15.5 10 24 6 2.5 2.5 6 15.5 23.5 21.5 15.5 6 2.5 19 10 11 10 2.5 19 23.5 15.5 21.5

d -1.5 0 0 2 -3.5 -19.5 7.5 15 11 -1.5 -5.5 -6 -4 -14 -4.5 20 -9 7.5 6.5 -7 20 -9 -17 2 -14.5

HO:There is no significant relationship between ranks of friends and jokes as topics posted on facebook. H1: There is significant relationship between ranks of friends and jokes as topics posted on facebook.

N= 25 rs crit= .398 rs= 1.044 rs= 1.044 rs crit= .398 Therefore,reject HO. Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between ranks of friends and jokes as topics posted on facebook. r= 0.0128 rxy= 0.0128 rcrit= .632

Therefore, failed to reject HO.

FACEBOOK USE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

Copy of Survey Form Course/Year /Section: __________________ Sex: ___ Male ___ Female Age: ___ 15-17 yrs. old ___ 18-20 yrs. old ___ 21-23 yrs. old Ordinal Position in the Family ____ Eldest Child ____ Middle Child ____ Youngest Child Others please specify:____________ Put a check mark on the appropriate selection that corresponds to your answer. A. Number of Facebook friends: ____ below 100 ____ 101-300 ____ 301-above

B. Number of hours spent in using Facebook per day: _____ 1-3 hours _____ 4-6 hours _____ 7-above hours C. Amount of money spent per day: _____ P15.00 P45.00 _____ P60.00 P90.00 _____ P115.00- above _____ Planned (Smart Bro, Globe, DSL, etc) Rank the items from 1 to 10 in terms of your usage, with 1=most frequently posted and 10= least frequently posted. D. Topics posted on Facebook (Status): ____ Love ____ Family ____ School ____ Politics ____ Friends ____ Jokes ____ Words of wisdom ____Greetings____ Media Clips (Videos & Photos uploaded)

____ Announcements E. Applications Used ( e.g. Cityville, Horoscope, An Inconvenient Truth, etc) Please Specify: ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________

References:
http://www.suite101.com/content/facebook-for-beginners-a41731 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Introduction/103036386891 http://www.masternewmedia.org/social_networking/social-network-servicecontent-aggregation/facebook-beginners-guide-online-social-networking20070626.htm