Abstract

Social media is a digital Interactive platform where students can share or exchange

information’s, images, videos, ideas and many more with each other through a

particular networking medium. In this paper we cover factors of social media with its

positive and negative effect. The purpose of this study was to compare the positive and

negative impacts of the social networking sites used by BSMT students with regard to year

level. SPSS was used for data analysis to compare well-being scores for positive and

negative factors of social networking sites. Consistent with research, the majority of BSMT

students cite that the reason for using social networking sites was to socialize and make new

friends. Facebook was identified as most used social networking sites followed by

messenger. Researchers have found out that the majority of the BSMT students are using social

networking sites. According to the data we collected from the questionnaire, most BSMT students of

STMTCC have been using facebook followed by a messenger. Majority of the BSMT students have

been using social networking sites more than 5 years and spend 2-5 hours daily. The researchers

have found out that the reason of the BSMT students of using social networking sites is socializing

and making new friends followed by collaborating with fellow students and study. The BSMT student

respondents perceived social networking sites to have an extremely positive factor and moderately

negative factor as an entire group and when grouped as to year level. There is no significant

difference in the level of positive impact of social networking sites. The level of positive impact of

social networking sites to BSMT students of STMTCC are comparable across year level. However,

there is a difference in the level of negative impact of social networking sites. This means that the

level of negative impact of social networking sites to BSMT students of STMTCC vary across year

level. Hence, BSMT students should be educated on the positive and negative factors of Social

Networking Sites.