Facebook Addiction

Quantitative Research

Submitted by:

Charles Dominic A. Cañonazo

Submitted to:

Dendi Lou Razonable LPT

OCTOBER 2019
 Introduction

Social networking sites, most notably Facebook have become to 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 don’t 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 severalnegative 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 source for their demotivation or academic failures.
 Significance of The Study

The emergence of different social networking sites which started in the early nineties, has
affected the lives of people. These websites offer services wherein one can make an online
identity that can be shared with other people.

Also, through these websites, one can strengthen existing relationships or create new relations
with people of the same activities, interests and background.

Because these sites are internet or web based, it is much easier for the users to interact or
socialize with their fellow users.

And since it’s first launch in the early nineties, these sites have now evolved and have become
popular worldwide. With this, the rapid growth of users imply that more people are getting
“addicted” to it, most especially adolescents or teens.

Because past researchers focused on the general definition of Internet Addiction, the researchers
wanted to develop a test or assessment that specifically measured the susceptibility or the
tendency of adolescents to be addicted to social networking sites especially Facebook.

With this, the researchers came up the Facebook Addiction Susceptibility Test (FAST), a paper
and pencil self-administered projective test.

The researchers believe that such assessment too is not only timely but also important for the
present and future generations of Facebook users because it will help them assess their own
internet use behavior.
1.Age?

2.Gender?

3.Town/City?

4.How long have you been a Facebook user?

5.How often do you log on Facebook?

6.How many hours a week do you spend on Facebook?

7.What is your main purpose for using Facebook?

8.Do you use Facebook as a substitute for other modes of communicating technology?If so
which forms?

9.Do you think you spend less or more time socializing offline since you joined Facebook?Why
do you think this is so?

10.How many online Facebook “Friends" do you currently have?