Jamael M.

Omar
Jaufar B. Bualan
Abbas M. Motalib

March 2017

Science Technology Institute (STI)

Iligan Campus

The Effect of Facebook

on our Personal Lives
(Quantitative Research)
 Submitted to the Faculty of the
Science Technology Institute Iligan Campus
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
Information Technology - Research

March 2017

The Effect of Facebook

On a College Students
(Quantitative Research)

by

Jamael M. Omar
Jaufar B. Bualan
Abbas M. Motalib
ABSTRACT

The most well-known social networking website today is Facebook it is the better

place to be your absolute funniest, most attractive, interesting and appealing SNWs. Social

networking website (SNWs) have opened the doors of communication, allowing people from

around the world to engage in identity creation and relationship development, According to

Zhiporia.com over 120 billion active users a month, engaging in the Website on a daily basis

to facilitate on ongoing dialogue of their identity and generating influence amongst their

networks. Facebook users employ a number of features including notes (blog), games, chat,

joining fan pages, starting group, posting statuses, and writing on others walls. Through

these experiences, users develop their self-concept and affiliative identities to create their

image, and to produce their own spotlight through a micro-celebrity experience on Facebook.

This study extends prior research of computer-mediated environment (personal websites) to

develop theory of how people contemporarily define themselves in their social online space.

The Facebook user celebrity experience is brought about through connected networks/fan

base, a highly regarded image, and association that are developed throughout this analysis.
APPROVAL SHEET

This research work entitled, The Effect of Facebook on a College Students

(Quantitative Research) by Jamael M. Omar, Jaufar B. Bualan, and Abbas M. Motalib,

presented to the Faculty of the Science Technology Institute (STI) Iligan Campus in partial

fulfillment of the requirements in Information Technology - Research, is hereby accepted.

Liezel Daberao
Research Adviser

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We express our deep gratitude to Ms. Liezel Daberao for her constant support,

guidance and motivation which helped us immensely in completing this project. The project

provided us with an opportunity to understand the fundamental of research methods in a

better manner and apply them to this research.

We also would like to thank our parents who always funding us to make this project

completed and also to those friends who always guide us, without them we cannot finish this

research paper.

We also would like to thank our respondents for giving us their valuable time and

providing us with the information needed to carry out this research successfully.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

Approval Sheet...........................................................................................................................i

Acknowledgements...................................................................................................................ii

Table of Contents......................................................................................................................iii

List of Tables.............................................................................................................................v

List of Figures...........................................................................................................................vi

Introduction................................................................................................................................1

Background of the Study...................................................................................1

Statement of the Problem...................................................................................1

Significance of the Study...................................................................................1

Scope and Limitations.......................................................................................1

Review of Related Literature.....................................................................................................2

Topic 1...............................................................................................................2

Sub-Topic 1.1.....................................................................................................2

Materials and Methods..............................................................................................................3

Process Flowchart..............................................................................................3

Process 1............................................................................................................3

Process 2............................................................................................................3

Results and Discussion..............................................................................................................4

Result of Process A............................................................................................4

Summary and Conclusion..........................................................................................................5

Recommendations......................................................................................................................6

Bibliography..............................................................................................................................7

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<Appendix As Title Goes Here>............................................................................................8

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List of Figures

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INTRODUCTION

Social media is a popular trend today, especially among college students. Businesses

are always looking for a new ways to reach customers, especially ones readying to enter the

force. This study examines the impact of social media on the buying habits of college

students.

Background of the 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 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

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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. 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

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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

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MATERIALS AND METHODS

Process Flowchart

Process 1

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Result of Process A

Table 1: Rater Preference of Pictures

Rater RATING OF PICTURES

(1 = awful, 5 = excellent)
Picture A Picture B Picture C

(Scenery) (Lolcat) (Fractal)

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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

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RECOMMENDATIONS

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Surname, G. M. (1985). Title of work goes here: A subtitle. City: Publisher.

Surname, G. M., & OtherSurname, F. N. (2011). Title of article. Title of journal,

volume(issue). Retrieved from http://someurl.goeshe.re/file.xyz

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APPENDIX A

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