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“Effects of Social Media to the daily lives of Generation Z”

Submitted to:

Mrs. Dela Rosa

Submitted by:

Santonil, Eliah Seth

San Jose, Nicole

Salinas, Gwendilyn

Duran, Seth Justin

Hilario, Harvey
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Chapter 1

Introduction

Modern society uses social media as their companion for daily human activities. According to a
reliable source social media is a way of sharing content through a website or an application. Social
media in today’s time is one of the most relevant plat form used by many people particularly the
Senior High School Students in San Sebastian College Recoletos de Cavite. Negative effects of
social media has been spreading in different news and articles that is why the researchers aim to
prove that despite of this negative effects there are more positive effects that social media can
give. According to Kim Beasly, 2017 there is a lot of studies out there focusing on the negative
effects of social media on students there is another side to the story. Social media has actually
been found to have positive effects on both teens and students. When surveyed on how social
usage affected their everyday lives, students claimed that it give them more self-confidence,
improved their relationships, and even made them more socially conscious.

Social media in today’s time has become part of student’s daily activity. It is also claimed that
social media improved the way of communication. Kim Beasly’s statement about the positive
effects of social media is also supported by Raymond Boateng & Afua Amankwaa 2016.

According to Boateng & Amankwaa "Social media is rapidly changing the communication
setting of today’s social world. The emergent of social media is significantly influencing
the academic life of students. Institutions and academician are continually trying with
social media technologies hoping to excite critical thinking skills, collaboration, and
knowledge construction. Today social media has been accepted by higher institution
making it a platform where students connect with their instructors, fellow students and
other higher authorities across the board. This therefore called for the study to explore
and examine how social media has impacted on students’ academic life. The study
implored a qualitative approach in assessing these impacts. Ten (10) participants were
conveniently sampled and interviewed with a period of two weeks. After studying the
phenomena that were of interest to the study, and transcribing the various responses of
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the participants the results reveals that social media is widely used by students of higher
institution and that participant are in support of the idea that social media contribute a
significant quota to the development of their academic life.

Social Media’s problem is present in different environments and one example of that is the school
because it is where social media is used and students are the most ranking people who used
social media or social media platforms. Social media helps the students a lot because it makes
their life more easier in a way where there are school announcements and home work they could
easily be aware of, but there are some negative effects too. It also distracts the students from
their studies instead to do their home work or focus on their studies which leads the students to
be complacent and that can result to failing grades and failed home works. These are just some
of positive and negative effects of social media to daily lives of students in San Sebastian College
Recoletos de Cavite.

As perceived by Jason Perkins, 2019 besides communicating with family members and friends,
teens also have the opportunity to learn things through social media platforms. Additionally, they
can get feedback from the work that they produce, like school projects, art projects, etc. It gives
them a safe space to get unsolicited advice from other people, which they can use to eventually
better their skills.

The basis of the problem is from the current experiences of the students who has been engaged to
gadgets and technology with a longer time. Also those students, whose daily routine includes social
media. Students can do a lot of things with the use of technology like, collaboration with peers,
improved technical skills, and accomplishment of more complex tasks. Technology is a double-
edged sword, as they say, with either positive or negative effects. This problem started after the
Industrial Revolution happened and when the technology was born. Until today, when technology
has evolved and developed and people can't live a day without social media.
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We’re seeing the creation of the digital world. Ten years ago, there was no such thing as Facebook.
Ten years before that, we didn’t have Amazon or the Web. New technologies have opened up new
opportunities. They bring with them an ever more complex reality (Sergiusz Prokurat, 2013.
Technology is a double-edged sword – it can both liberate and enslave). When students are using
technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather
than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast.
The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display
information. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information,
making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons. Moreover, when
technology is used as a tool to support students in performing authentic tasks, the students are in
the position of defining their goals, making design decisions, and evaluating their progress. (Dr.
Ram Singh, 2013. Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students).

Interviewing a particular or selected Grade 11 ABM Students is the first step of gathering a data.
The next thing to gather information is by searching or finding a reliable source that will support
the study. By using a qualitative research or a study that is minimal to no use of statistical data,
this research will help student to understand the impact of social media in their daily lives. The set
of respondents will come from Grade 11 ABM Students in SSR-C to know what is their own
opinion about the positive effect of social media in the daily lives of students. The researchers
will conduct an interview to know what further positive effects social media can have. The tool
used in gathering the data is by interviewing from Grade 11 ABM Students and by searching
reliable source or also called as peer-reviewed reference.
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Definition of Terms

Social Media- Websites and applications used by the generation z on their daily activity.

Generation Z- Senior high school students. Representatives from Grade 11 ABM students

Students- Grade 11 ABM students

Negative Effects- The downside of using social media

Positive Effects- Benefits of using social media

Technology- A gadget or tool used to access social media websites and applications
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Chapter 2

Review of Related Literature

Definition of Social Media

According to Rouse, 2019 social media is the collective of online communications channels
dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. Websites and
applications dedicated to forums, microblogging, social networking, social bookmarking, social
curation, and wikis are among the different types of social media.

As a supporting statement to Rouse, Dollarhide, 2019 defined that social media is computer-
based technology that facilitates the sharing of ideas, thoughts, and information through the
building of virtual networks and communities. By design, social media is internet-based and gives
users quick electronic communication of content. Content includes personal information,
documents, videos, and photos. Users engage with social media via computer, tablet or
smartphone via web-based software or web application, often utilizing it for messaging. While
social media is ubiquitous in America and Europe, China and India now lead the list of social media
usage.

Negative Effects of Social Media

Social media become very popular because of its negative effects that is reported by articles, news
and social media itself. As a supporting statement this are few examples pf negative effects that
social media can give to the generation z. Smart Social,2019 stated this few examples of negative
effects of social media:
1. Anxiety & depression:

Research suggests that young people who spend more than 2 hours per day on social media are
more likely to report poor mental health, including psychological distress (symptoms of anxiety
and depression).
2. Sleep:
Numerous studies have shown that increased social media use has a significant association with
poor sleep quality in young people. Using phones, laptops, and tablets at night before bed is also
linked with poor quality sleep.
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3. Body image:
Body image is an issue for many young people, both male and female. Studies have shown that
when women in their teens and early twenties view Facebook for only a short period of time, body
image concerns are higher compared to non-users.
4. Cyberbullying:
Bullying during childhood is a major risk factor for a number of issues including mental health,
education and social relationships, with long-lasting effects often carried right through to
adulthood.

Many students in this generation are involved to social media addiction according to Hou, 2019
social media addiction can be viewed as one form of Internet addiction, where individuals exhibit
a compulsion to use social media to excess (Griffiths, 2000; Starcevic, 2013). Individuals with
social media addiction are often overly concerned about social media and are driven by an
uncontrollable urge to log on to and use social media (Andreassen & Pallesen, 2014). Studies have
shown that the symptoms of social media addiction can be manifested in mood, cognition, physical
and emotional reactions, and interpersonal and psychological problems (Balakrishnan & Shamim,
2013; Błachnio, Przepiorka, Senol-Durak, Durak, & Sherstyuk, 2017; Kuss & Griffiths, 2011;
Tang, Chen, Yang, Chung, & Lee, 2016; Zaremohzzabieh, Samah, Omar, Bolong, & Kamarudin,
2014). It has been reported that social media addiction affects approximately 12% of users across
social networking sites (Alabi, 2012; Wolniczak et al., 2013; Wu, Cheung, Ku, & Hung, 2013).

Positive Effects of Social Media

Social media have different negative effects but can also have several positive effects as perceived
by Austin, 2016 social media is an integral part of today’s society. With loads of information being
disseminated over the Internet, social media has become the very fabric upon which our society is
being built. The people who are at the forefront of molding the future of social networking sites
are teens and children. This is because vast majorities of the people who use the Internet are
children and teens. Reportedly, many teens spend an average of 8 hours online every day. Much
of that time is thought to be spent on social media sites, with only some attention focused on
research and learning.
For the past decade, social media has been touted as a platform for youngsters to congregate online
and interact socially as if they were in person, regardless of their distance from each other. There
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are likely teens out there who do not know of many other uses of the Internet other than their
favorite social media platform.
While there have been many negative outcomes from social media such as cyberbullying and other
online dangers, social media can be used in ways that promote positive and productive ideas in
society. These positive behaviors make social media an invaluable tool to young people if used
correctly. Below are some of the ways in which social media can be used to benefit young people.

The impacts of social media to the senior high school students is defined by Loresto, 2019
according to his statement most of these students started using social media accounts from our
general average of 9.77.As the results have said most students started early using this social media
accounts. At an earlyage these students were influenced to use these social media for
entertainment. And most of thestudents often use Facebook as their type of social media. Facebook
is the most used socialmedia of all; young or old people are using it because of its unique
features.According to our survey result, most of the students who answered said that social media
hasonly partly affects them. These students can manage to use social media without them
beingaffected. And they can manage to balance their studies when they are also using social media.
Tothese answer it results to positive effect on them.

Social media on daily life is stated by Tyler, 2013: If one were to look back over the last decade
and try to find some element that affected society as a whole from a technical standpoint, there
would be a couple of possible contenders. The advancement of smartphone technology in such a
short time is certainly impressive, for example. However, the impact of social media, while
intertwined with the smartphone is something that made even more of an impression. Consider
just how easy it is to see what is happening on the other side of the world, through the accounts of
real people rather than filtered news channels. Twitter and Facebook were huge parts of the Arab
Spring, and they are important to help people keep in contact and updated during disasters.

According to Bhamare, 2018 social networks have become the central facilitator for daily
communication with peers, family and acquaintances. It is affecting our relationships and
decreases the quality of inter-personal communication. Another impairment of communication
skills caused by the extensive use of social media platform is the impoverishment of language.
Using messengers’ people often use shortened versions of words in order to type and deliver their
messages as quickly as possible. Shortened versions like “k”, “ttyl”, “ur”, “der”, “gr8”,”cu”,”tc”
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and so on completely ruins the grammar and syntax. It also develops the use of slang terms and
sometimes people tend to forget that they are neglecting the beauty of language when they are
online busy with the social media.
Social media and online communication is believed to be having adverse effect on social skills and
communication among adolescents. Long ago, the time when social media did not exist and social
communication and interaction were the only way of communication. In the era of technology,
social media interactions now dominates both online and offline conversations. In a society where
interacting and over-sharing is the norm, you are probably more likely to speak to friends and
family through electronic devices than face-to-face. Often at events or parties, guests are attached
to their smart phones twitting or texting, but no one is truly engaging or interacting with the people
around them. As more generations are born into the social age, social media will continue to be
the favored communication form among young people. However, this shift may begin to affect
their ability to properly communicate in person with peers.

Social media is an information source as perceived by Westerman, Spence & Heide, 2013 newer
communication technologies have increased the possibilities for how people can send and receive
information. Social media are one such technology that has seen increased usage as an information
source (Pepitone, 2010). For example, social media are being used to seek information about
serious topics, such as circulating up‐to‐the minute information about cholera outbreaks in Haiti
and identifying clean water sources during this outbreak (Sutter, 2010). Social media has also seen
a great deal of usage by those seeking health information, with 59% of adult Americans (80% of
internet users) reporting that they have accessed this type of information online (Fox, 2011). As
this Pew Report suggests “people use online social tools to gather information, share stories, and
discuss concerns” (Fox, 2011, p. 5). Similarly health professions and organizations are seeing the
advantages of adopting social media because it is seen as an information equalizer allowing access
to health care information to populations who, in the past, would not have this access (McNab,
2009). It provides a sense of privacy for the information seeker in that he/she does not have to
disclose personal information in order to obtain health related information.

Technology become the way or tool to access social media sites and applications according to
Zilles, 2019 technology has also fundamentally changed notions of time in social media. For
example, faster Internet connections and nearly ubiquitous mobile connectivity means that there
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is absolutely no reason why you can’t respond to any message, sent from anywhere in the world,
within a matter of minutes. In fact, in today’s world, it’s considered rude if you don’t respond to a
text message immediately. Now contrast that to the norm just a generation ago, when clunky
Internet connections (anyone remember dial-up?) and desktop computers made it impractical to
communicate with anyone when you weren’t at home or in the office.

Now, however, the divide between personal and professional life is no more. Going on vacation?
Expect to bring along some work with you. Just because you are away from the office doesn’t
mean that clients, co-workers and bosses can’t barrage you with messages and emails. No wonder
so many people now dream of going “off the grid” – there seems to be almost no place left where
you can plausibly deny that you received a message.

The social media sites over the years is defined by Moreau, 2019 the world's most popular social
networking sites certainly have changed over the years, and they'll undoubtedly continue to change
as time moves forward. Old social networks will die, popular ones will stick around as they're
forced to evolve, and brand new ones will appear (just watch out for fake news sites!)
We've moved on from the days of MySpace to a social media era now dominated by Facebook and
all sorts of other social mobile apps. A lot of kids even admit to using Snapchat the most,
suggesting that it could be the future of where social networking is headed.

Social media can also improve self-esteem Society for Science & the Public, 2017 defined that
Using social media to connect with others is kind of like having a private conversation in a public
place. But there’s a difference. Even when you’re chatting with a friend in the middle of a physical
crowd, most other people can’t hear what you say. On social media, your conversations can be
read by anyone with access.
Depending on whether people notice your posts — and how positively they respond — your online
interactions may be quite positive. Or not. Social media can make some teens feel depressed and
isolated. They can feel cut out of social interactions. They may feel judged. In fact, people who
visit social media sites to feel connected to friends may end up caught in online drama, or even
cyber-bullying.
The average teen has about 300 online friends. When people post to their social media account,
they’re speaking to that large audience — even if their posts aren’t publicly available. That same
audience can see the responses other people provide through comments or “likes.”.
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Education and studying requires many information as an addition to the student’s knowledge
according to Willbold, 2019 various websites and social media networks are providing plenty of
information that can be helpful to students. Via social media news feeds, students can find
informational and relevant websites they want to follow so as to be kept in the loop. Depending
on their interests, students can find answers to their questions. Sites, such as Tumblr and Pinterest,
can offer children inspirations for school projects or practical problem-solving.
The educational benefits of social networking sites are also those that help students prepare for
important lessons and learn certain concepts with great efficacy. Social media websites will
contain the latest data on various school subjects and thus, the students have the opportunity to
survey and look into what is new. Social media is a Wikipedia for students these days. We are
witnessing an era of social media learning.

Using social media can affect the mental health of students in a positive way as perceived by
Hurley, 2019 there are some positive aspects to social media. It’s important to remember that teens
are hardwired for socialization, and social media makes socializing easy and immediate. Teens
who struggle with social skills, social anxiety, or who don’t have easy access to face-to-face
socializing with other teens might benefit from connecting with other teens through social media.
Teens in marginalized groups—including LGBTQ teens and teens struggling with mental health
issues—can find support and friendship through use of social media. When teens connect with
small groups of supportive teens via social media, those connections can be the difference between
living in isolation and finding support.

The statement of McGillivray, 2015 states the effect of social media on youth. According to
McGillivray social media are gaining in popularity every day.
The average time spent on social networks per day: 1.72 hours (in 2015).
The average number of hours a teenager spends online per week: 27 (2015).
Social media have become prominent parts of life for many young people today. Most people
engage with social media without stopping to think what the effects are on our lives, whether
positive or negative. Are we as a society becoming more concerned with Facebook "friends" than
we are with the people we interact with face-to-face in our daily lives? What will the longterm
effects of today's social media use be?
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There are many positive aspects, but there are equally as many dangers that come with the use of
sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google +, Tumblr, Instagram, gaming sites,
and blogs. In order to make the right choices, we must dig in and research this topic thoroughly.
(McGillivray, 2015).
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Chapter 3

Research Methodology

Research Method

The research method used in this study is Qualitative Research. This method is used in order to

avoid limited information that the researchers need. By using this method the researchers are able

to gather more information from the respondents. The respondents also have the freedom to

express and share their insights about using social media. Observations, direct interactions and

interviewing selected students are also valid in this method to express more in-depth description

of the study and the gathered information

Research Design

The research design of this study is Case Study. This method is applicable in this study for it is

about an in-depth experience of one person or group of students in San Sebastian College

Recoletos. Directs observations and interactions with the respondents were organized by the

researchers. The method also describes the experiences of the students about using social media

applications. It helps to gather limitless information and different opinions from an individual’s

lived experience.

Sampling Method

The participants or respondents in this study is from the Grade 11 ABM strand. The participants

are involved in using social media application and gives the researchers a factual information and

reliable opinions. The information given by the participants will add more details and data to the

study. The Grade 11 ABM students were chosen to be the participants of this study. Based on the

researchers observation and interview to the respondents social media can have negative effects

but social media can also give positive effects that is beneficial for the students because it helps in
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daily activities such as gathering information about recent news, searching for announcements and

etc.

Data Gathering

The first procedure focused on searching for reliable sources in trusted websites to support the

statement of the researchers and the study itself. The second procedure focused on interviewing

selected grade 11 ABM students as an addition to the details of the study by knowing the

experiences and opinions of students towards using social media.