Table of Contents

Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………….. 1

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

Statement of the Problem and Research Questions ……………………………….. 2

Significance of the Studies ……………………………………………………………... 3

Literature Review ………………………………………………………………………… 3

Research Paradigm/Research Simulacrum ………………………………………….. 5

Methods ……………………………………………………………………………………. 6

Participants/Subjects/Respondents …………………………………………………… 7

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Introduction

Social Media is an internet and mobile technologies for interactive social

networking. This kind of social networking was very popular to the world
especially to the students or youth who is more connected and updated on it.
They use it for educational purpose but most of the time students used it
excessively and don’t have any discipline to themselves on how to use it properly.
There are several social media websites that we can use in our daily lives, the
first is the Facebook this is the most popular social networking website in the
world like most of the people young and old have this kind of social media where
in you can post anything you want and everything you do thru videos, photos and
quotes. The second one is Twitter it allows you to send short post called tweets,
but unlike the Facebook, twitter is much updated than the first one especially on
news. The third one is Instagram another website that you can use to post
pictures that has a nice photography, you can also post some video clips of yours.
And lastly, is YouTube it is a video-sharing website where in you can post too
everything you want like movies, vlogs, and tutorials. And because of these
websites students have a great amount of usage in terms of these activity.

Background of the Study

Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated

to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. Some
prominent examples of Social Media are Facebook, Twitter, Instagra m and
YouTube. Facebook is very popular wherein users create profiles, upload photos
and videos and as well as send messages to friends, families and etc. For them to
keep in touch with colleagues. Twitter microblogging service that allows
registered members to broadcast short posts called tweets. Instagram is a photo-
sharing application and service that allows users to share their photos and videos
you can share it publicly or privately while the YouTube is a video -sharing website
where in you can share all of videos as well as movies and vlogs.

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 The pace of change is accelerating. For example, the development of
mobile technology has played an important role in shaping the impact of social
media. Across the globe, mobile devices dominate in terms of total minutes spent
online. This puts the means to connect anywhere, at any time on any device in
everyone’s hands.

If the researchers are able to produce this study, they will get to know the
different effects and information about Social Media from the high school students
as respondents. From there they can establish awareness about Social Media.

Statement of the Problem and Research Questions

With this study, we are ought to give prior notice to these effects of social
media to us, students in order for us to fully understand why and how this affects
students and their learning.

1. What is the status of social media to one of Holy Rosary College students?

2. What are the effects of using Social Media in educating of High School
students in Holy Rosary College?

3. How can Social Media affect the learning of students? Why do students keep
in touch to Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube?

Hypothesis

The researchers presume that the Grade 9 and Grade 10 students of Holy Rosary
College used social media excessively.

Significance of the Study

The importance of the study is that to know how much the students in Holy
Rosary College used social media excessively. And to determine what is the most
frequent social media they used to.

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Literature Review

Underpinning Theory

According to Chou, Condron, and Belland (2005), there are few studies
found that there is a relationship between internet addiction and users' social -
psychological or personality variables, such as sensation seeking, pleasure
experiences, use-and-gratification, loneliness, and depression. Besides that,
there are also few significant factors which associated with the internet addiction
such as, drinking behavior, dissatisfaction with family, and experiences of
stressful event (Lam, Peng, Mai, & Jing, 2009).

In Lam et al. (2009) study, found that internet addiction is a behavioral

manifestation of internal stress and stress is a known risk factor of addiction.
Besides that, Esen and GündoÄŸdu (2010) stated that internet addiction might be
an escape for adolescents when they cannot cope with the problems of life and
one of the main problems is not be able to handle the pressure from peer. So,
when adolescent feel stress due to some problem, they cannot cope with it, they
will choose to escape from the real world to get into the imaginary world of
internet.

According to Torres (2010), online social support can enhance internet

use. Moreover, the easy access to unlimited online information and little
censorship also contribute to the problem of internet addiction (Patrick, 2010).

Discussion of Literature by Themes

Research has accumulated suggesting that excessive Internet use can

lead to the development of a behavioral addiction. Internet addiction has been
considered as a serious threat to mental health and the excessive use of the
Internet has been linked to a variety of negative psychosocial consequences.
(Daria Joanna Kuss, Mark D. Griffiths, 2012).

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 The activity of play has been ever present in human history and the
Internet has emerged as a playground increasingly populated by gamers.
Research suggests that a minority of Internet game players experience symptoms
traditionally associated with substance-related addictions, including mood
modification, tolerance and salience (Daria Joanna Kuss, Mark D. Griffiths, 2012).
A total of 58 empirical studies were included in this literature review. Using the
current empirical knowledge, it is argued that Internet gaming addiction follows a
continuum, with antecedents in etiology and risk factors, through to the
development of a “full-blown” addiction, followed by ramifications in terms of
negative consequences and potential treatment. The results are evaluated in light
of the emergent discrepancies in findings, and the consequent implications f or
future research (Daria Joanna Kuss, Mark D. Griffiths, 2012).

Research Paradigm/Research Simulacrum

Input
Output
 Profile of the respondent:
 Name Process  What are the main
 Age reasons why they
 Sex excessively use it
 Grade or year level  A possible way to lessen
 Questionnaire
 School down the use
 Descriptive
survey  To see if their usage
Relation or status with the topic
affects their grades or
given (Social Media)
status in the school
Often used, rarely used, barely
used, not at all or none.

Methods

Participants/Subjects/Respondents

Grade 9 and Grade 10 students of Holy Rosary Collage are involved.

Instruments

Printed questionnaires from the researchers.

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Procedures

1. The researchers randomly chose names of the interviewees from Grade 9

and Grade 10 students of Holy Rosary College.
2. Printed questionnaires will be given to the interviewees to answer.
3. After the questionnaires are given back, resulting to data collected, the
researchers will be able to analyze them.

Data Analysis

The researchers will use a qualitative-descriptive approach.

Results

Table 1

The Respondents’ Gender from Grade 9 and Grade 10 Students of

Holy Rosary College

Gender

50% 50% Male

Female

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 Table 2

The Respondents’ Age from Grade 9 and Grade 10 Students of

Holy Rosary College

17 - 18
6%
Age
13 and below
0%

13 and below
14 - 16
17 - 18

14 - 16
94%

Table 3

The Number of Respondents from Grade 9 and Grade 10 Students of

Holy Rosary College that are Using Different Social Media Sites

NUMBER OF USERS OF DIFFERENT

SOCIAL MEDIA
33.6

27.9

18.8 19.7

Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube

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 Table 4

The Amount of Time Spent by Students from Grade 9 and Grade 10 Students of
Holy Rosary College on Using Different Social Media Sites

AMOUNT OF TIME SPENT ON USING

DIFFERENT SOCIAL MEDIA
Amount of Time Spent on Using Different Social Media

46.678

36.275

17.647

1 Hour and Below 1 - 3 Hours 4 Hours and Above

Summary

The social media adoption rate continues to grow. This Social Networking Site
(SNS) was very popular to the world especially to students. Therefore we conducted a
study about “The status of Social Media use of grade 9 and 10 students in Holy Rosary
College”. We conducted this study in order to know if/how social media was used by the
students, whether it is a positive or negative. We oversee some solution by choosing
random respondents/ interviewees from grade 9 and 10 students to answer the
statements that we made in a survey/questionnaire paper as our instrument for our
research to know if social media was used by the grade 9 and 10 in a negative or
positive way regarding to their academic performance. For us to get the results we use a
qualitative-descriptive approach. As a result from our 50% male respondents and 50%
female respondents, ages ranging 18-below, here are some social networking sites that

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a common student use. 33.6 % of them uses YouTube, 27.9% of them uses Facebook,
19.7% of them uses Instagram and 18.8% of them uses Twitter, and the amount of time
spent by the students are 17.647% of them uses social media 1hour and below,
36.275% them uses social media 1 to 3 hours and 46.678% of them uses social media 4
hours and above. The research that we conducted is a proof that many students are
influenced to consume their time by using different kinds of social media.

Conclusion

This research was conducted to study on how social media excessively

affects the Grade 9 and Grade 10 students of Holy Rosary College. The
researchers found out that most of the respondents from Grade 9 and Grade 10
are using social media excessively with an average time span of four (4) to six (6)
hours and above. Based from the results, the researchers found out that
respondents from Grade 9 and Grade 10 uses Facebook as their top social media
site that they use all the time with the most average time of four (4) to six (6)
hours.

Recommendations

1 For the future researchers, we do recommend that you'll expand the

study about social media.

2. For the future researchers, we do recommend that you will consider the
effects of social media to the relationship of a students to their family, behavior
and to their social life.

3. For the future researchers, we do recommend that you will find another
kind of social media that may affect to the students.