A Research in English for

Academic Professional Purposes

The Influence Of Social Media To The Study

Habits Of Grade 11 Students Of University Of
Mindanao Ilang High School

Submitted to: Mrs. Jannet B. Dacanay

Submitted By:

Melody Jumawan

Margarett Barral

Kristelle Elijah Maningas

Rizza Mae Balaquinto

Hennessy Shania Ardiente

Karen Jane Salas

Kimberly Martinez

Jazz Casuse

Joshua Gawat

Dennis Galbizo

OCTOBER 2019
 Acknowledgement

The research wishes to express their most sincere appreciation and deepest

gratitude to the following persons who have contributed the completion of this thesis.

Mrs. Jannet B. Dacanay, their adviser for English for Academic Professional Purpose

for extending intellectual support, and generous guidance which helped the

improvement of this study and for lending is desertion to serve as a guide in the

making of this research.

The researchers would also like to thank their fellow research group mates in

making of their research paper; for the simulating discussions, for sleepless nights

working together to meet deadlines and for all fund they had in the past six months.

Also, we would like to thank the University of Mindanao Ilang Senior High School

and staffs for allowing the researchers to use the facilities in the library. Their pieces

of advice and suggestion had truly been a great help in making of this research.

Above all, to the Lord Almighty for giving them wisdom and strength to pursue

this study.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Transition in behavior has led the Grade-10 student to explore new patterns of

information and perform multitasking. Though, this multitasking has to affect the time

utility and distribution in both in both negative and positive ways. One significant

effect these channels is on students’ academic performance .

Social Media is that means that employs mobile and Web based technology

to create highly interactive platforms via which individuals and community share, co-

create, discuss and modifies user-generated content (Kietzmannn, 2012). Social

media is a phrase being tossed around a lot. It is a website that does not just give

you information but interact with you while giving you information. It is a group of

internet based application that allows the creation and exchange of users generated

content. It is easy to confuse social media with social news because we often refer to

members of the news as the media. Adding to it, that social news site is also social

media site.

Social media refers to the means of interaction among people in which they

create, share, exchange and comment among themselves in different networks.

Andreas and Michael (2010) are of the opinion that social media is a group of

internet based application that builds on the ideological foundation and allows the

creation and exchange of users – generated content. Social media has become one

of the major channel of chatting through platforms such as 2go, BB chat, blogger and

wiki.

There has been an increase in the mobile social media which has created

new opportunity for browsing. The research model suggests the negative mediating

effects of the Social Networking Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Skype etc. The
concluding remarks are that, a decrease occurs in the students’ academic

performance but a positive effect on the satisfaction with life.

Casuse
 Similarly, SNS do effect one’s academic performance adversely. It causes the

gradual drop in the grades of the Graade-10 students directly. It affects the Grade-10

students’ academic performance if he/she invests his/her time in SNS instead in

studies. Time wasting is a major issue in this regard. SNS are highly addictive to

those people who cannot control themselves into constantly using these sites,

prioritize entertainment over work and gives to much attention to social acceptance

and affiliation.

The situation is that if a student gives too much time on SNS, there is an

ultimately decrease in its academic performance. On the internet, students engage in

a variety of activities some of which may be potentially addictive. (kuss and Griffiths,

2011). The mass appeal of social media on the internet could be a cause for

concern, particularly when attending to the gradually increasing amount of time

students spend online. Undergraduates spend more time on Facebook, Twitter and

other social media through smartphones that are now in abundance among these

youths. Many student cannot go for two-three hours without checking and updating

their profiles on these social networks even at the detriment of other activities such

as educational and career pursuit. (Morahan- Martin and Schumacher, 2000)

explain social media addiction as the excessive use of the internet and the failure to

control this usage which seriously harms a person’s life.

 Since the last decade the usage of Social Networking Sites among college

students is increasing rapidly throughout the world. Evidently Social Networking

Sites have become a significant part of the lives of these youth (Gemmill and

Peterson: 2006). Compared with any other group of people the usage of Social

Networking Sites among college students is more, mainly because they are attracted

extensively to the new technology and particularly to the opportunity it offers for

creating social networks.

Ardiente
 Keol Lim and Ellen B Meier (2012) in their study clearly highlighted how and

why Korean students use Social Networking Sites and what are the advantages they

find by using Social Networking Sites. The study as such begins with the explanation

of how the number of international students getting admission in U S universities has

increased. It also refers to psychological experiences of international students such

as disorientation, nostalgic depressive reactions, and feelings of isolation, alienation

and powerlessness. However, international students may have limited ways to cope

with stress, which could lead to stress-related illnesses such as anxiety or Chapter –

2 Review of Literature Page 41 depression. Hence these limitations make it hard for

international students to acclimatize themselves new circumstances.

Kuan-Yu Lin and His-Peng Lu (2011) applied network externalities and

motivation theory to understand the usage of Social Networking Sites among college

students. After conducting an empirical research involving 402 samples, using

Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) Approach, Lin and Lu (2011) found that

“Enjoyment” was the most influential factor for the increasing usage of Social

Networking Sites among the college students.

Martinez
 In addition, Mikolaj Jan Piskorski (2009) in his study, “Understanding the Uses

of Social Networks”, cites that people love to look at pictures, which is the killer

application of all online Social Networking Sites. Piskorski hypothesizes that people

who post pictures of themselves can show they are having fun and are popular

without having to boast. Another attraction of photos is that they enable a form of

voyeurism. Social networks enable a very delicate way to pry into someone’s life

without really prying. The study also postulated deep gender difference in the use of

sites. The biggest usage category is men Chapter – 2 Review of Literature Page 46

looking at women they do not know, followed by men looking at women they know

and women look at other women they know. Nicole Ellison’s study (2008) on Social

Networking Sites provides very thought provoking insights. According to this study,

85 % of the respondents use one or more social networking sites. The extent of the

usage of Social Networking Sites has increased dramatically in the past two years

and the usage of Social Networking Sites as well differs considerably by age. Most of

the respondents aging 18 and 19 years old use Social Networking Sites (95%), yet

only 37% aging 30 years and above utilizes these networking sites. The majority

involving 18 and 19 years old, have more than 200 friends while those aged 30 and

above have more or less 25 or lesser friends on these sites.

 Consequently Facebook is the most commonly used Social Networking Site,

with MySpace as the second choice. It was also found that about half of these users

utilize just one Social Networking Site, having only one profile, and participate in one

to five groups within Social Networking Sites. Profiles of Social Networking Sites are

fairly stable, with most respondents changing them monthly or less often. The

majority of the users of Social Networking Sites spend 5 hours or less per week.

Younger respondents report spending more time than older respondents. It also

emphasized that most students (87%) put access restrictions on their profiles.

Younger respondents and females are most likely to do so.

Ardiente
 Lack, Beck and Hoover (2009) investigated the usage of Social Networking

Sites by undergraduate psychology major. They found that majority of students using

Facebook and their account information have publicly accessibility and some user

profiles have content of a questionable nature on their publicly viewable accounts.

They suggest that formal education must be presided to students regarding

the usage of these sites.

Ferdig (2008) determined if and how medical students and residents are using

Facebook at a university in the South-eastern United States. They studied whether

respondents had a Facebook account and their account private or public. The study

finds that majority of the respondents have an account and they maintain a public

profile. The study indicates that majority of the medical students seem unaware and

unconcerned about sharing personal information at a public domain which could

affect their professional lives. This study provides preliminary evidence that online

tools such as social networking communities should become a part of the dialogue

related to preparing future physicians to meet the ACGME professionalism

competency.

Gawat
 This study complements the idea of Yeboah and Ewur (2014) that social

media takes much time of the students studies time, results in procrastination related

problems, destroys students grammar and spellings, leads to lack of concentration

during lectures and difficulty in balancing online activities and academic preparation.

In a 2012 news article of the Irish Times, it pointed out that facebook can impact

study habits of students. This application is easily get through the phone and only

needs WIFI where you can easily connect everywhere. As a matter of fact, there are

more students who used their phones, iPad while they were supposed to be reading

textbook. As a result, social networking sites can affect the study habits of students,

particularly facebook.

According to Wang, Chen and Liang [15] students use social media tools for

many purposes such as access to information, group discussion, resource sharing

and entertainment. On the contrary, Gross and Acquisti [16] argue that users may be

putting themselves at risk both offline (e.g., stalking) and online (e.g., identify theft).

Williams [17] points out that little empirical work has explicitly examined the effects of

the Internet on bonding social capital. Social networking is currently 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.

Barral
 While the social networking has the same key aspects, the cultures and

responses around them that become apparent are varied. It is currently being used

regularly by millions of people and has been widespread that they have caught the

attention of academic and industry researchers worldwide [18]. Nonetheless, social

networking has only one goal. It is to encourage new ways to communicate and

share information.

Many students have been blaming various social networking for it affects

adversely their study habits and the steady decrease in their grade point averages.

This emergent phenomenon aroused the researcher to look into social networking

and why they affect the study habits of students [18]. In support, Churchill and

Halverson [19], states that social networking is built on the idea that there is a

determinable structure to how people know each other, whether directly or indirectly.

The System’s theory input-output model developed by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

was adapted for this study. The theory, according to Koontz and Weihrich [20],

postulates that an organized enterprise does not exist in a vacuum; it is dependent

on its environment in which it is established. They add that the inputs from the

environment are received by the organization, which then transforms them into

outputs [21]. As adapted in this study, the students (Inputs) from different social

economic backgrounds and are from various school backgrounds, and how the

social networking affects the output which is the study habits and can be seen

through their academic performance [22].

Barral
 Robbins [23] argued that organizations were increasingly described as

absorbers, processors and generators and that the organizational system could be

envisioned as made up of several interdependent factors. However, Schmitt [24]

underscores that the Internet has quickly become the most expeditious, central

means of communication and access to information so it makes perfect sense that

this trend in media would trickle down to impact the lives of youth everywhere.

There are numerous reasons why the internet has become the chosen means

by which adolescents discover their identity. Adolescents find that social networking

or the internet and social personal web pages offer them a safe place to tryon

different ‘hats’ or try out new personalities without the fear of rejection or

embarrassment and the normal risks associated with real life trials of the same

magnitude. Social networking sites are a major part of the general population’s lives

today [25]. From MySpace to Facebook to Twitter, our lives are consumed with

interacting via the internet. These sites not only allow us to connect with family,

friends, and strangers, but also play social games and follow the latest in our favorite

celebrity’s lives.

The changes that these websites have made in the average person’s life are

immeasurable. The term "Friends" can be misleading, because the connection does

not necessarily mean friendship in the everyday vernacular sense, and the reasons

people connect are varied [26]. Study habits, one of the variables in this study, are

learning tendencies that enable students to work privately [27]. Azikiwe [28]

describes that good study habits are good asset to learners because they assist

students to attain mastery on areas of specialization for a consequent academic

performance. Galbizo
 We all need to realize that social networking communities are thereto stay, considering the

millions of users that they have (Armstrong, 2010). In addition,there are students today have

begun to stay on the accessibility of information that isavailable on the social media platforms

specifically as well as the webin general inorder to get answers and to please themselves through

playing games. Now, highschool students, social websites are to help them, giving them

knowledge for thesis, journals, and others. But misusing them could deprive their

focus on studies.Social Networking started as a place to connect with your friends in an easy

andconvenient way (Jackson, 2009).

Social networking sites allow the individual in thefamily to share their daily lives in a sure but

public forums. Family members are able toorganize events. Relatives abroad can communicate

and share things every time intheir own free time despite the fact that their geographical distance.

Celebrities are nowmore in contact with their fans, giving them recent updates to what is

currentlyhappening, picture, videos and articles related to them (Parrack, 2008). Celebrities

caneasily tell the public on the future events and post something regarding to other things.With the

advent of social networks, social scientist and media experts have wonderedabout the benefits of

social networking brings to communication (Jeffrey, 2009).

According to Dr. Wilma A. Hurtada(March 30, 2010) “ One of the very nicest

things about life is the way regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our

attention to eating.” Most of the college students were all busy doing some paper works

and school activities, others are in reviewing. They can’t find time taking a break and

have something to eat, because of this things, another same problem is with students

residing on dormitories. They can’t also find time eating because, they doesn’t have
someone to accompany them in eating. Some cases are, they are busy doing

homework’s, projects and papers to be passed, resulting them for skipping meal. This

may affect the physical and mental health of a student, it can be the reason of yourabsences in

school, poor performance, and a failing grade.

Galbizo

Dr. Hurtada says,whatever we are doing we must stop in order to eat. One thing is, our

brain would notfunction well if we did not eat, how can we focus on studying if our stomach is

empty?What will happen on your academic performances? Is skipping meal will help you toexcel

in your studies? NO it will not, it will just weaken your body and mind. Therefore inorder to keep up

with your studies you must eat regularly to feed your stomach and brain.

In addition, the Whitehouse (2011) stated that students may lose

concentration in school because of SNS. For instance, students always feel tired in

class. As a result, they do not understand that their teacher taught them causing for

them to fail exam.

Power (2012) on her research paper sees SNS as “a coin that has two sides”,

meaning that there are dual effects of SNS. She cited the negative side of social

media usage such as distraction to the users, spending fewer hours per week

studying, having a lower mean grade point average, and engages in procrastinating

behavior. She also stated the good effect, with the statement saying that the
potential for using social media sites to further the goal of education is immerse, and

teachers are making the faraway into the world of online social networking site for

educational purposes.

The following readings had helped the researchers to arrive in a common

understanding to the issue that circulate to the social media and its effect to the

study habits of the students. This has also helped in formulating the conceptual

framework of this study.

Salas

In a survey conducted by de Villiers (2010), results showed that there’s a

significant number of students studying in University of South Africa claimed that

they were using Facebook for academic purposes.The positive aspect of

online communities is that youths can utilize them for academic assistance and

support (Lusk, 2010).

Social media can yield many benefits for the young because of its ability to

enhance connections by making them easily accessible. Students who may be

reluctant to speak up in class are participating in book discussion blogs and writing

for real audiences. There are new Web tools emerging all the time that are

enhancing learning (Brydolf, 2007).

 Madden (2011) stated that the utilization of Facebook has been found to

increase users’ sense of personal belonging among college students and also, this

sense of belonging has in and of itself been positively correlated with academic

performance.

Livingstone (2008) stated that affinity for self-presentation is often a mark of

adolescence, and SNS use has made it possible for one’s own display of personality

to reach a larger audience than previous generations.

However, Jacobsen & Forste (2011) concluded that the electronic media use is

negatively associated with grades. They also found out that about two-thirds of the

students reported using electronic media while in class, studying or doing homework.

Balaquinto
 Social media usage by students is so rampant recently because of easy

access to devices such as smart phones, i-phones, black berry, tablets, i-pad and

laptops which are connected to the internet. Addiction to the usage of social media

has extremely increased in recent times. The perils of its effects on the academic

performance of the over-involved students are disturbing. Academic performance

which is depicted by the grades of students is a great concern student that spends

excessive time on social networks become dependent on it and it is believed that

their academic performance diminishes proportionately. It is perceived that school

grades will suffer when spending too much time on social sites such as Facebook,

twitter and 2go as valuable study time is lost (Greenhow and Robelia, 2009).

Social media has exploded as a category of online discourse where people

create content, share it, bookmark it and network at a prodigious rate. Because of its

ease of use, speed and reach, social media is fast changing the public discourse in

society and setting trends and agenda in topics that range from the environment and

politics to technology and the entertainment industry (Asur and Huberman, 2010).

Different researchers have conducted research to ascertain the influence of

social media on users; for example, Barker (2011) in a study on “impact of Facebook

on undergraduate academic performance, averred that social media have negative

impact on students. According to the result, the more students use Facebook, the

more it affects their academic performance.

Similarly, most of the younger students use social networking sites mainly for

socialising activities, rather than for academic purpose. It is further observed that

most of the students do feel that social networking sites have more positive impact

on their academic performance (Ahn, 2010).

Maningas
 In another study, it was revealed that students use social network mainly for

making friends and chatting.

The result showed that only 26 percent of the students (respondents)

indicated that they use social media for academic purpose (Forste, 2011).

Students and teenagers have especially recognized these social media

platforms to be able to contact their peers, share information, reinvent their personas

and showcase their social live. Facebook users often experience poor academic

performance (Nicole, 2007).

Social media has a negative association with students’ academic performance

which is much greater than the advantages derived through the use of social media

platforms. People around the globe have been addicted to the internet which has

given rise to more students using social media more often than before (Karpinski,

2009).

There is a correlation between academic performance and the dependency on

social media platforms. Researchers have conducted different studies to find out the

influence of social platforms users, for instance a study on ‘’impact of Facebook on

undergraduates academic performance’’, stated that social platforms have negative

impact on students (Kubey, Lavin, and Barrows, 2001).

Jumawan
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