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The Advantage and Disadvantage of Social Media On Grade 11 Ict Students at Ama Computer Learning Center Antipolo ACADEMIC YEAR 2019 - 2020
The Advantage and Disadvantage of Social Media On Grade 11 Ict Students at Ama Computer Learning Center Antipolo ACADEMIC YEAR 2019 - 2020
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Thesis
Presented to
The Faculty of AMA Computer Learning Center
Antipolo City
October 2019
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ABSTRACT
TITLE The advantage and disadvantage of
Social Media on Grade 11 ICT
Students on AMA Computer
Learning Center
AUTHOR :Angela Rosselle Fabian
April Echaluce
Bianca Ivy Bautista
Clareth Edzel Mangubat
Leonardo Castillo
Luis Miguel Diñoso
Omheer Usman
Jasper John Z, Docto
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APPROVAL SHEET
The undergraduate thesis entitled “THE ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF
SOCIAL MEDIA AT AMA COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER ANTIPOLO” Prepared
and submitted by , Angela Roselle Fabian, April Echaluce , Bianca Ivy Bautista, Clareth
Edzel Mangubat, Leonardo Castillo, Omheer Usman, Jasper John Z, Docto, And Luis
Miguel Diñoso in Partial fulfillment of the requirments for senior high school, is hereby
recommended for approval.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The completion this thesis would not have been possible without the Relentless
support and encouragement of many people, friend, students, and relatives who have
kindly offered their time, support, reassurance, advice, and words of encouragement in
individuals that deserve special mentioning and the following persons are:
Ms. Myrene Natividad, research instructor, for her time, support, guidance
and insight during the process of writing and accomplishment of the study;
Ms. Lindie B. Lindo, AMA Computer Learning Center for her time, guidance,
support and sincere accommodation to the researcher from the start of the survey.
Learning Center, for their cooperation and patience during data gathering.
Learning Center, for their support in providing the needed data for the study.
And most of all to Our Almighty God who makes all thing possible for lifting up on us the
desire in our heart, inspiration and encouragement in my mind and determination in our
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DEDICATION
This work is dedicated with much love and gratitude to our parents for
lifelong love and support to your endeavor and for graciously believing us and
instilling the qualities in us to persevere and work hard to attain the next level
professionalism and for unending belief in our ability. In addition, we would like
to dedicate this research to our loving professor, Ms. Myrene Natividad, for her
I dedicate this research to the Lord, Who are always with me for guiding
support and love when doing this research. To my fellow groupmates. Bianca,
Angela , Clareth, Luis, Omheer and Leonardo. Although research is not easy,
sometimes we are not understanding everyone but in the end we finished this
study.
April A. Echaluce
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This work is dedicated with much love and gratitude first of all to our
lord whose always there guiding and keeping us safe in order to make
this research. To my parents who give me love and support while doing
our research. This research would not be done without the help of my
this work and inspired us to not give up. For our family who never stop
supporting us. And for the Almighty God who gave us wisdom and strength to
Omheer L. Usman
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I dedicate my dissertation work to my family and extended family. A
special feeling of gratitude goes to my loving Mother, Myla Almacen, who have
always stressed the importance of education. They not only gave me moral and
First of all I dedicate this thesis to my lovely mother for keep supporting
understanding about some expenses we need to fill while making this study.
Second, I would also like to say thank you to my group mates for their concern
and being matured enough to discern my reason for not coming in our meeting.
experience this research. We realize and discover a lot of things through finding
some information to complete our study. Thank you Ma’am for being our guide
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I dedicate this research to my friends and classmate for cheering me while doing this
research. To my family that provide all expenses we needed while conducting this
thesis. And to our subject teacher Ma’am Natividad for giving us change to learn and
Leonardo Castillo
help and support our research has been successful. I am so grateful to my parents, for
their hard work on educating me and supporting my school needs and for providing the
expenses I need for studies and for our research papers. And I’ll give thanks especially
to our God for guiding us, giving us wisdom and knowledge to do our research and also
to our adviser in research for motivating us and helping us to finish our thesis. We
cannot finish this successful research without your help, thank you so much and may
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CHAPTER I
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
INTRODUCTION
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
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. Understanding Social Media originated as a way to interact with friends and
family but was later adopted by businesses which wanted to take advantage of a
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The researchers conducted this study because they are also part and exposed
in such addiction and mis-use. The researchers are also curious and interested to the
media on Grade 11 ICT Senior High School students at AMA Computer Learning
Center Antipolo from the year 2019-2020. This study is only for the Grade 11 ICT
Senior High School students of ACLC Antipolo. The respondents will be 100
Grade 11
o 1.1Age
o 1.2 Sex
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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Respondents Profile
Sex
Age
Administering Survey
- Reason of using social
Questionnaire Collecting a data by
media
Gathering Date doing survey
- Advantage of
Analysis of Data questionnaire
engaging social in
media
- Disadvantage of
engaging in social
media
FEEDBACK
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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This study will be beneficial to the following:
ACLC Administrator- Like the teachers, the study will help the ACLC Admins to
understand the reasons of the students on why they using social media to provide
emotional and physical support by giving them advice and activities that may help them
Teachers - This study will help teachers to guide and to better educate their students
and show them the proper way of using of social media and what harm it can have on
Parents-The result will provide the parents with some knowledge about the
behavior of their children and help them understand why they using social media
through the given data. It will help them top and create preventive measures that will
Students - They will be the beneficiary of the study in a way that they gain
knowledge about using social media and how it can be avoided. It will give the student a
realization that using social media is not very essential in their they life. At the end of
this study students would finally know the reasons why some students using social
media.
Future researchers - this study will provide baseline data needed for future
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Addiction - is a complex disease, often chronic in nature, which affects the functioning
of the brain and body. It also causes serious damage to families, relationships, schools,
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Adolescence - is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that
mentioned. They describe the boundaries that you have set for the study.
Perspective - Your perception is your reality. Your perspective shapes who you are:
your motivation, your inspiration, and the choices you make in your professional and
personal life. It is important to make sure you have a positive mindset in order to attract
Research - the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order
content.
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CHAPTER 2
FOREIGN LITERATURE
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UI Haq & Chand (2012) investigated the usage and popularity of famous
social media network (Facebook) among university students with special focus on
the gender based comparison and the impact of the selected social medium on
their academic performance. The two researchers evaluate the pattern and frequency
of Facebook use among university students while focusing gender that majority
of the users (61%) agree that this social medium has adverse effects on their
Abhyankar (2011) pointed out that from the very beginning; human beings
across generations. All human beings crave social life, but not all can have time
and resources to enjoy social circle where they can communicate, collaborate
and freely express themselves with like-minded peers for satisfying their different
needs like security, assets, skills, relationships, science and technology, events,
politics, history, literature, art, etc. There is no end to the list of fundamental
principles that can drive people to create platforms for communication and
communities, forums, groups etc.) like a tree with multiple branches and nodes.
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LOCAL LITERATURE
(CICT) Chairman Ivan John E. Uy said that social networking sites can be a
useful tool in public service delivery. “The use of Facebook and Twitter in
aired over DZRB. There are 24 million Internet users in the Philippines, 51% of
which use social networking sites. Social media Is an effective platform for
Karen Fraxier (2010) public relations specialist, writes that social media
“has changed the way people interact. In many ways, social media has led to
however, it has a dark side, as well. Social media can sometimes result in
showed hyper-networking (more than three hours on social networks per day)
and hyper texting (more than 120 text messages per day) correlated with
FOREIGN STUDIES
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According to Fuchs, Christian. 2009. Social Media Sites and the
Surveillance Society. A Critical Case Study of the Usage of study, Facebook, and
students from Salzburg participated in the study that was conducted by the Theory
The study recommends that citizens see commercial Internet platforms that
store and evaluate personal data generally critically and that by establishing
which rights in dealing with personal data such platforms obtain by their terms
LOCAL STUDIES
people. It has spread Its wings to various other fields and education is one of
the new sectors where the concept of social media is making a great role
aggregate, share, discuss or deliver information with friends and colleagues using
the internet (Espino, 2015). They involve the use of web-based technologies
2013).
The respondents of the study were the students from the ACLC who were taken as
samples from the students who were officially enrolled in the first semester of the school
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CHAPTER 3
describe the phenomena under study in its natural setting. It is also used
because this was the most appropriate means of determining. The Advantage
Year 2019-2020.
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Aggarwal Y.P(2008) “Meaning of the Term Descriptive Research Meaning”.
No.6.
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SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
of the study.
The first one is letter for the respondents (letter of approval). Second is collection
of the details of respondents profile of the selected students. Third is creating 1 st items
statement that conclude the Advantage and Disadvantage of Social media in the given
respondents.
The survey questionnaire checklist was created by the researcher and research
instructor.
DATA GATHERING
After the approval of the title at hand the researcher immediately prepared the
Gantt chart of activities that serves as the calendar of activities for the researcher. It
also served as a guide in accomplishing the desired task necessary for the conduct of
the study.
After the construction of Chapters 1,2, and 3 the researchers will secure a permit
from the AMA Computer Learning Center Antipolo to conduct the study and approved
request to the school administration of ACLC for the conduct of the study. Then the
retrival of the survey questionnaire –checklist will follow in data gathered will be
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tabulated analyzed and subject to appropriate statistical treatment for its proper
interpretation.
This will guide to the construction of Chapter 4 which dealt with the detailed
result of the study . Then it will be follow by the construction of chapter 5 which
Likert Scale:
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STATISTICAL TREATMENT
gathered data.
1.Frequency, Percentage and Rank that are used to know the profile of
P=f / N x 100
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CHAPTER 4
This chapter present the analysis and interpretation of gathered data that would
Table 1.
were male and the lesser the number, 48 percent or 48 of the respondents were
female.
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Table 2
age of 15-16 years old, while 20 or 20% are at age 17-18 years old and 8
The reason why 15-16 years old is the biggest percentage, because
that is the standard or required age for grade 11 by the Department of
Education.
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5 4 3 2 1 Weigh rank
ree
I use social media for academic 34 21 19 13 13 3.5 7
purposes.
I spent most of my time in using social 27 24 23 15 11 3.41 1
media.
I sleep late because of social media. 26 27 20 14 13 3.06 6
insight/opinion.
Keep my self updated on the latest 24 24 23 17 12 3.06 6
trends.
I am addicted on social media. 22 20 19 20 19 3.31 4
Table 3
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As shown in Table 3, most students use social media as their
social media through being distracted and the rest has a neutral view to
social media.
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SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE – THE ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON GRADE 11 ICT
STUDENTS AT AMA COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER ANTIPOLO ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-2020.
Name:___________________________________________________Date:_____________________
(Optional)
I. Respondents Profile
Please put a check on the line of your answer.
Legend:
5-Strong Agree 3-Neutral 1-Not Affected
4-Somewhat Agree 4-Slightly Affected
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Social media is very essential in my life.
CHAPTER 5
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Summary of Findings
The study answered the followings sub-problems:
1. ( 72% ) of the grade 11 ICT student -respondent at AMA Computer Learning Center
Antipolo are at early adolescent’s stage specifically from 15 - 16 years old.
2.The respondents answered that social media has advantage on their studies,
communication, using it as a hobby and other positive result like studies,
communication and information gathering.
3. The respondents answered that social media has disadvantage in terms of
not handling it properly and over using of it. And become one of their distraction
specially in Academic.
Conclusions
The conclusion of researcher that social media give both advantage and
disadvantage in each social media user has been confirmed after the result of survey
come. The students-respondents said that social media’s effect on their study, livings,
social life and etc. can be positive either negative in many ways. According to students-
respondents social media are positive at first use--- where you only visit it for academic
purposes like assignment, research, project and etc. Social media are good if you use it
as communication to connect to your love ones, to get updated to your friends and
school matter, and other kinds of good communication. Social media is healthy is its
help you to make your work easier. And said again by student-respondents, social
media are advantage if it is your medium to freed yourself from stress, to leisure, and to
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make yourself happy even in indoor. The Advantage of social media is countless, the
benefits we gain from it is so much. Social media widen our knowledge and curiosity,
and as curiosity become higher people will tend to explore and discover more. The
willingness to gain more knowledge are the reason of everyone to dig in in each part of
social media which contain different toxin that may poison everyone’s mind and lifestyle.
The result of the research said that using too much social media are bad and this
is the first step to experience the social media disadvantage. According again to
student-respondents, the longer they use social media, the longer they become
obsessed on it until it became distraction in their academic, livings and social life. On
student-respondent perception, social media will become unhealthy the way individual
use it and if they let social media control and destroy them.
Positive
Connectivity - The first and main advantage of the Social media is connectivity.
Education - Social Media has a lot of benefits for the students and teachers, it is
very educate from others who are experts and professionals via social media.
updated on the news updates and the latest happenings around the world.
Awareness - Social media also make people aware and innovate the way
people live.
Help in building communities - Since our world has different religious views
and beliefs.
Negative
without being traced, it can be quite easy for anyone to bully other people on
internet.
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Hacking – Getting the personal information’s and privacy of a person, that be
Addiction – The addictive part of Social media is when you spend all of your
time and consuming more hours on using internet, playing online games and
Fraud and Scams – Several examples are available where individuals have
Cause of Death – Not just by using it, by following the stunts, and other crazy
Recommendations
With all of the foregoing analysis, interpretation, and conclusions of this study, the
following are strongly recommended for possible course of action.
FOR ADMINS:
1. Make a program to introduce the advantage and dis-advantage of social
media. Include the social media info, about the proper use of Social Media
Sites.
FOR TEACHERS:
1. Create evaluation, revise policies, and practices that encourage students to
engage in professional learning related to advantage and disadvantage of
social media.
FOR PARENTS:
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1. Make extra effort to guide their children when using social media, make a
limit social media use that breaking may lead them to understand the do’s
and don’ts when wondering in each social media site.
FOR STUDENTS:
1. Be matured and responsible enough to understand your limits on social
media use. Make yourself aware on advantage and disadvantage of social
media use on you as teens, students and, son/ daughters.
Reference
https://www.academia.edu/4812990/Baby_thesis
Dated by: September 9, 2019 retrieved by:
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