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This document provides background information on social networking and its increasing popularity and use among students. It discusses how social networking sites allow users to construct profiles, connect with others, and view their connections. While social networking provides entertainment and opportunities to connect, the document notes it can negatively impact students' academic performance if overused. The study aims to determine the positive and negative effects of social networking on academic performance by surveying students' usage, and to provide suggestions. It is limited to senior high school students at one academy.

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Social Networking

This document provides background information on social networking and its increasing popularity and use among students. It discusses how social networking sites allow users to construct profiles, connect with others, and view their connections. While social networking provides entertainment and opportunities to connect, the document notes it can negatively impact students' academic performance if overused. The study aims to determine the positive and negative effects of social networking on academic performance by surveying students' usage, and to provide suggestions. It is limited to senior high school students at one academy.

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Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Background of the study


Social networking websites are currently being used regularly by millions of people. The
Internet is more than just a means of seeking information. People discovered that the Internet
could be used to connect with other people, whether for business or commercial purpose,
make new friends, reawaken old friends and long lost relatives. The use of social networking
sites has been widespread that they have not only caught the attention of academic and
industry researchers worldwide but also us, in particular. Social networking sites are now being
investigated by numerous social science researchers and an increasing number of academic
commentators are becoming more and more interested in studying Facebook, Twitter, and
other social networking services, because of their probable impact on academic performance.

While the social networking sites have the same key aspects, the cultures and responses
around them that become apparent are varied. Most sites help strangers connect with others
based on shared personal interests, political and economic views, or simply recreational
activities. Some sites accommodate distinct viewers, while others attract people based on
similarities, such as common languages or shared religious, racial, sexual or nationality-based
identities. Nonetheless, social networking sites have only one common goal. It is to encourage
new ways to communicate and share information.

Many students always log in to their account on Facebook, Twitter, etc. as a part of their
everyday routine. Could you imagine the number of all the students logging in to these social
networking sites, everyday? That would be millions of students logging. That’s why many
students have been blaming various social networking sites for their steady decrease in grade
point averages. This emergent phenomenon aroused us to look into social networking sites and
why they affect fellow students academic performances

Social networking sites as web-based services that allow individuals to: (1) construct a public or
semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they
share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by
others within the system.
For the past years, social networking has been very popular for people worldwide. Social
networking is a great form of entertainment. It is like going to a new school, on your first day
you have no friends but as days pass you will meet new friends and eventually you will form
groups or circle of friends. At first, you don’t have much interest in your new school but when
you begin to learn and enjoy more about your school, you will be happy to spend much of your
time in school with your friends, teachers and etc. It is open for all kinds of people, all ages, and
all races. A purpose of social networking is we meet people, maybe people we met before like
old classmates or schoolmate or new people from different races and countries, we just have
same interests with.

For teens in this generation, social networking has become sort of an “addiction”. A teenager
has a Facebook account. She opens her account daily to check new updates. She spends hours
checking new updates until she realizes she has more important things to do like school works
she has missed doing because of signing in into a social network service. This is an example of a
teen being addicted to such social networks. To prove social networking can be an addiction,
the researchers made a survey to test whether social networking could be a hindrance to a
good performance in school. The survey made got answers that yes, some people are willing to
spend more time being online on these social network services than to spend time studying and
working up on school works. This is sad to hear because with all the advantages social
networking can give, there are also disadvantages, like this, that can be or give bad effects to
people who use them.

On the point of academic performance or excellence, Tuckman (1975) posited that,


performance is used to label the observable manifestation of knowledge, skills, concepts, and
understanding and ideas. Thereby, performance is the application of a learning product that at
the end of the process provides mastery. It is the acquisition of particular grades on
examinations indicates candidate’s ability, mastery of the content, skills in applying learned
knowledge to particular situations. A student’s success is generally judged on examination
performance. Success on examinations is a crucial indicator that a student has benefited from a
course of study (Wiseman, 1961).
In educational institutions, success is measured by academic performance, or how well a
student meets standards set out by local government and the institution itself. As career
competition grows ever fiercer in the working world, the importance of students doing well in
school has caught the attention of parents, legislators and government education departments
alike. Therefore, when the term “low” is used with the term “academic performance”, it is the
inability to acquire particular grades on examinations that indicates the individual’s mastery of
the content, and skills in applying learned knowledge to specific circumstances.

Statement of the Problem


1. What are the profile of the respondents in terms of:

1.1 age;
1.2 gender; and
1.3 track?
2. To what extent is the positive and negative effect of social networking in academic
performance?
3. Suggestion to the Positive and Negative Effects of Social Networking in Academic
Performance.
Objectives of the Study

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

Generally, this study aims to determine the Positive and Negative Effects of Social Networking
in Academic Performance of students at Prime Brilliant Minds Academy.

Significance of the Study

The importance of the study is to determine Positive and Negative Effects of Social
Networking in Academic Performance.

The outcome of this study may be useful for teachers and students to know the Positive and
Negative Effects of Social Networking in Academic Performance.

Scope and Delimitation

This study focuses on the Positive and Negative Effects of Social Networking in Academic
Performance in the students of Prime Brilliant Minds Academy.

This study was limits its coverage on the Senior High School in Prime Brilliant Minds
Academy. Its main purpose is for the students and teachers to determine the effectiveness of
social networking.

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