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A Descriptive Study of the Effects of Social Media in the Academics

DISCUSSION

In this section of this research paper, researchers finally answer all the

key questions that have been established by the researchers. The results of

the survey provide some of the empirical data about the effects of social

media on the academic performance of the students and the following are the

conclusions of the researcher:

Findings

Based on the data gathered by the researchers, most of the students

are agreeing that social media boost their confidence which it helps students

participate in class that has a 3.06 weighted mean which has a verbal

interpretation of Agree.

According to the data gathered by the researchers, most of the

students are agreeing that social media helps them to improve their

academics that has a 3.27 weighted mean which has a verbal interpretation of

Strongly Agree.

In accordance to the data gathered by the researchers, most of the

students are agreeing that students can concentrate with their studies when

students use social media that has a 3.27 weighted mean which has a verbal

interpretation of Strongly Agree.

In accordance to the data gathered by the researchers, most of the

students are agreeing that students can concentrate with their studies when

students use social media that has a 3.27 weighted mean which has a verbal

interpretation of Strongly Agree.


A Descriptive Study of the Effects of Social Media in the Academics

As stated to the data gathered by the researchers, most of the students

are agreeing that students can still improve their academic performance

without the help of social media that has a 3.27 weighted mean which has a

verbal interpretation of Strongly Agree.

Conforming to the data gathered by the researchers, most of the

students are always using Facebook that has a 3.58 weighted mean which

has a verbal interpretation of Always furthermore most of the students are

always using Messenger that has a 3.97 weighted mean which has a verbal

interpretation of Always moreover most of the students are always using

Instagram that has a 3.37 weighted mean which has a verbal interpretation of

Always as well as most of the students are always using YouTube that has a

3.37 weighted mean which has a verbal interpretation of Always however

most of the students are seldom using Tumblr that has a 2.34 weighted mean

which has a verbal interpretation of Seldom likewise most of the students are

often using Snapchat that has a 2.61 weighted mean which has a verbal

interpretation of Often and most of the students are often using Twitter that

has a 3.08 weighted mean which has a verbal interpretation of Often.

Congruent with the data gathered by the researchers, most of the

students are always spent 1 – 3 hours a day using social media that has a

3.51 weighted mean which has a verbal interpretation of Always moreover

most of the students are always spent 4 – 6 hours a day using social media

that has a 3.39 weighted mean which has a verbal interpretation of Always

however most of the students are often spent 7 – 9 hours a day using social

media that has a 2.77 weighted mean which has a verbal interpretation of

often and most of the students are often spent 10 hours and above in a day
A Descriptive Study of the Effects of Social Media in the Academics

using social media that has a 2.06 weighted mean which has a verbal

interpretation of Often.

Conclusion

Based on the data gathered by the researchers, the null hypothesis of

the researchers is not accepted and the alternative hypothesis is accepted

because the researcher proved that social media have effect on the academic

performance of the students.

According to the results, Messenger is the most used social media app

of the students because messenger is a social media app that can

communicate with other people around the world and it’s free even though the

students don’t have data package registered they still can use their data in

their mobile phones. The social media that have the lowest user along the

students is Tumblr.

The range of the time spent of the students in using social media is 1 to

6 hours. The researcher believes that the range of the time spent using social

media of the respondents is just right to have a positive effect on the students.

The time spent of the students on using social media reflected on what could

be the effect of social media on their academic performance.

Researcher concludes that with the use of social media the academic

performance of the students get affected positively and they can develop

different skills using social media.

Social media could affect negatively to the academic performance of

the student if not used properly.


A Descriptive Study of the Effects of Social Media in the Academics

Recommendation

The researchers will state their recommendations for the individuals

who will benefit to the research paper of the researchers. Especially the

recommendations of the researcher are for the future researchers who want

to tackle about the effects of the social media. Future researchers can tackle

different topic about social media that did not tackle by the researchers. The

following are the recommendations of the researchers:

The researcher recommend to the future researcher to study on what

different skills that can be develop or improve using social media because in

the future social media will be improving and developing.

Future researchers may study about the timeline and development of

the internet; this will be helpful in understanding the impact and the process of

how social media influenced the teenagers with their studies.

Students should use the social media properly and do not use

improperly because it can affect the students’ academic performance

negatively.

Avoid being biased, do not focus on one side, future researchers must

pay attention both on positive and negative side. Future researchers must

study about the perspective of the students on how social media distract them

from studying.

The researchers advise to the future researchers that explore different

aspect of social media and use this research paper as a reference for their

future research paper.

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