Department of Education

Region Ш
Division of Pampanga
SAN SIMON HIGH SCHOOL
San Jose, San Simon Pampanga

“The Effects Of Social Media Usage To The

Academic Performance Of Senior High
Students Of San Simon High School
(S.Y. 2018-2019)”

A Research Paper
Submitted to: Ms. Almira Jane Salvador

In partial fulfillment of the requirements in inquiries, investigation and immersion

Submitted by:

Lenard Alba

Shella Joy Argobano

Edison De Guzman

Jamaica Macapagal
 Chapter I

INTRODUCTION

The social media has a great impact in our society, it helps us to fasten our work.

Social media is somehow a form of communication such as talking or spending time to

the people in the society by means of using websites or any electronic devices that we can

use. The importance of this topic is that for us to know the other usage or effect of social

media in our society by how we can benefit from it and on how we can deal with it. The

main reason in choosing this topic is that it is very interesting topic because we are living

in the 21st century world with the great or big influence of social media. The Senior High

students of San Simon High School will benefit in conducting this research, because it

aims to know the possible effects of social media usage to their behaviour that may affect

their academic performance.

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

We all know that social media can help us in our daily lifestyle, By means of

searching or finding an information in a faster and a reliable way. We conducted this

research topic because we want to know the effects of using social media in the academic

performance of the Senior High Students of San Simon High School. Social media have a

great impact to our education, it help us to fasten our research work. Social media plays

an important role in every student’s life, it is easier and convenient to access information,

provide data and communicate via social media. But before, the work was very hard but

now because of the help of the social media it can make our work faster and easier. Social

media has a damaging effect on the daily lifestyle of the students, since it negatively

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affect relationship with others, it causes them to be inattentive and can get cyberbullied.

The type of this problem exist because there are a lot of people who use social media in

an improper way, mostly the Senior High students of San Simon High School, without

knowing that social media can influence their lifestyle and behaviour that may affect their

study habits, as an observation, most of the students place a large amount of time in using

their mobile phones instead of studying their lesson, most of the time before the

examination, instead of reading their notes, they’re busy with their gadgets and after the

examination some of them got a failing grades that may affect their academic

performance.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The use of social media became popular in our present time, because it help us to

communicate better and faster. The growing total number of use of social media to the

students may not been totally summarized. According to Jacobsen and Forste (2011) they

say that the use of social media is one of the most important factors that may affects the

academic performance of the students. Many parents are worried, because using a lot of

time in social media can affect the behaviour and health status of the students that may

also affect their academic performance. Spending a lot of time using social media can

occupied the time of the students to study their lesson that may affect their quarterly

grade. In conducting this research, it also aims to know what kind of social media sites

that the students are addicted or spending a lot of time in using it, it identifies the other

possible effects of social media usage when it comes to the academic performance of the

Senior High Students of San Simon High School.

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Specific Questions:
1. What are the reasons why students visit their social sites?

2. What kind of Social Media do the students visit every day?

3. How many hours do the students spend in using it?

General/Research Question:
How did Social Media usage affect the academic performance of the Senior
High Students?

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

 To know what are the effects of social media in good or negative way.

 It aims to know the influence of social media usage to the behaviour of the

students that may affect their academic performance.

 To know what kind of social media do the students visit or use every day.

 It aims to know the benefit of social media to the academic performance of the

students.

 It aims to clearly understand the level of exposure to the social media of the

students that may affect their academic performance.

LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

In conducting this research there are some problems or weaknesses that may arise

during the research. Example problem is that some students may not be honest in

answering the questions of the researcher that may lead to the inaccuracy or being false

of the data, and in order to avoid it, the researcher must explain properly the questions to

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the interviewee so that he/she can understand it properly and to avoid any prediction that

may result to the inaccuracy of data.

SCOPE AND DELIMITATIONS

We conducted this research because we want to know and examine the effects of

social media usage to the students its either bad or good that may affect their academic

performance. The year of conducting this research is about at the year of 2018-2019 just

to examine the effects of social media usage to the Senior High students of San Simon

High School year 2018-2019. We are focusing in the higher level because we know that

they have an in depth knowledge about our specific topic.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The relevance of conducting this research is that we are living in the 21 st century

world with a big influence of social media and on how it can affect the performance of

the students when it comes to academic. The possible solution to this problem is to

balance the use of social media. In conducting this research the Students, Teachers,

Parents and the future researcher or other people in the society may benefit to this study,

because this study may give them an idea or information about the possible effects of

social media usage to their daily lifestyle. In this research it also discussed the possible

causes of the problem by means of identifying or examining the circumstances that can

show the information to build up the answer or solution to the problem.

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 Chapter II

Review of Related Literature

The Social Media plays a big role in every student’s life, it makes their

paper or research work to finish faster in a small amount of time. Social Media usage

influences today’s modern world, not only the students but all the people who use Social

Media. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, Social Media is a form of electronic

communication through which people create online communities to share information,

ideas, personal messages or etc. Social Media help us to communicate in our relatives,

friends, classmates and other people in a fastest way. It also help us to gather more

information by means of searching or finding the reliable data that we need.

Social Media usage has a great impact when it comes to education, it helps

the students to make their work faster and easier and convenient to access information

and provide a market of ideas and communicate via social media. Beyond those positive

effects, there are also underlying negative effects Of Social Media. The use of social

media is one of the most important factors that may affect the academic performance of

the students, that idea or quotation was also used in a research paper in the Journal of

Education Volume 6, November 6, 2015. A research that was conducted in Kaforidua

Polytechnic in Ghana. According to the researcher that conducted that research, Many

Parents are worried, because using a lot of time in social media can affect the behaviour

of the students that may also affect their academic performance. Another thing is,

according to Martin (2008) and Lusk (2010), to them social media is the use of Facebook,

blogs, twitter, my space and LinkedIn for the purpose of communication, sharing photos

as well as video. Same as through, most Senior High Students of San Simon High School

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uses Facebook, most of the time it affects their study habits, instead of reading their

notes, they’re just reading the post in the newsfeed of their Facebook account.

According to some senior high students based on their observation most of

their classmates before midterm, students do not review or read their notes or study their

lessons, but when it comes to their social media account like Facebook they’re always

active, during the midterm most of the students have failing grades and some of them

caught cheating during the exam. As we can see, social media has a negative impact

when using it in an improper way that may also affect their behaviour and lifestyle that

can influence their academic performance. Another thing is there are also side to side

effect of social media usage to the students when it comes to their writing skills and

spelling. (Obi, Bulus, Adamu, and Sala’at, 2012) Social media affects student’s use of

English, they use short-handwriting when chatting with their friends and unconsciously

get used to it thereby replicating same errors during examinations.

Students use their phones during their free time, they chat with their

friends with their electronic devices, and they also use the Messenger application wherein

they can type the message they want to send, most students uses short cut words for faster

way, but in contrary, they’re not aware that they also applied it to their daily life even in

their school, resulting in a wrong spelling during their written activities and

examinations. Behind those effects there are also benefits that the students can obtain.

(Yunus and Salehi, 2012) Students gain more vocabulary, improve their writing skills and

reduce their spelling mistakes through social media usage. There are some applications or

sites wherein, it can help the students to improve their spelling, there are also mobile

keyboard that can help students to know if their spelling is wrong or correct, it

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automatically corrects their spelling. Through those helpful and useful application, it

gives the student another way to learn. Social media is part of student’s life, they learn

with the help and use of social media, not only in their school life but in their daily life.

(Wheeler, Yeomans, Rifkins, Longnecker, Leah and Ortia, 2009) Students’ academic life,

has moved to a different dimension since the introduction of these social media networks

and several studies have affirmed that social media plays an important role on students

higher education.

The role of social media to the students life is like a train and the rail,

without the rail, the train has no way to go, just like the students in the present generation,

without the help of social media there are limited way for a student to learn. (Junco al et,

2010) We all know that social media are a collection of internet websites, services, and

practices to support collaboration, community building, participation and sharing.

Through those services and websites, it helps the students to discover new things and go

outside their comfort living, they can learn advanced information and they can also be

aware of their environment because social media is always updated for current events

happening in the society. Most of the studies shows that social media make the students

or other people in the society to be socialize and friendly through their social networking

sites and help them to be more creative and productive. According to Nguyen (2015),

social media gives students an excellent opportunities for them to read and write in an

effective forums and for collaboration and discussion and powerful tools to enable

scaffolding learning or mentoring. There are social blogs and forums where other

students are member that is a networking sites wherein they can share their thoughts and

opinions towards the specific things that occur in the society. There are also online clubs

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where students join, most of the online clubs are educational, but others are just a bad

influence for a students, other research shows that through those online communities

some people or mostly students can be negatively affect, other people meet and create

their relationship through online chats and messaging. In that way it can affect the

students’ academic performance, instead of studying their lessons, they’re busy for their

social life through social media.

We cannot deny that today’s modern technology, most of teens meet

their boyfriend or girlfriend through their social media accounts, in that way it can affect

the student study habit, by means of, instead reading his or her notes he/she is reading

the conversation they had with his/her boy/girlfriend. In the help of social media it helps

the students to make their world a bit larger, because we all know social media is large

and wide variety of different people with different background and perspective about life.

(Arquero and Esteban, 2013) Social media undoubtedly generate new opportunities to

engage students in higher education as they are remarkably effective at connecting people

and facilitating the exchange of information. We can also say that social media engages

the students to be more competitive and creative that can help them in their academic

performance, to be socialize is to be engage in the society’s moves, as the students

learned, they will acquire knowledge how to be more formative in order to be part of the

society. (Jain, Verma, Tiwari, 2012) The research entitled “the impact of social

networking in promoting education” revealed that students benefit from chatting with

other students, teacher and external sources to acquire knowledge. People all over the

world have been enjoying the benefits of using technology nowadays, in the past,

communicating and free sharing of thoughts between people are restricted by long

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distance, race, and even religion. (Astodello, 2016) But now, these barriers can no longer

stop the flow of information and knowledge because now the new world of social

networking allows free sharing of thoughts through online, social networking sites such

as Facebook, instagram, twitter, and the Like.

We can see that social media is also important when it comes to our

online communication, it help us to reach faster the people we want to communicate with.

According to Dixon (2012), he said that social media involves the use of web based

technologies to transform one way communication into an interaction online dialogue.

Social networking sites helps the students to communicate to their teachers even in their

classmates when they need an information about their school paper works. Online

dialogue such as calling each other or video call is a new way of communication wherein

the students and other people in the society may benefit from it. (Schneider, 2009) Social

media became more popular between 2004 and 2016, after Facebook was created.

Facebook for example has over 500 million members and still growing and

approximately 85% of ungraduated students are Facebook users. Using of Facebook is

actually a best way to communicate and also to learn something from your friends, but

using it in an improper way may result to a damaging effect to a person’s lifestyle and

behaviour, the same way, using a lot of time for your social networking sites may results

from being lazy and unable to do house chores and schools works.

The current generation of the students has been exposed to a technology

which led them to rely on social media such as Facebook and twitter. (Brubaker, 2013) It

has an impact on the academic performance when the students overuse or multitask while

doing their schoolwork’s. Relying on social media is not a good way of learning, people

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can use social media to learn but relying on it instead of thinking their own idea is an

improper way of using social media. According to Nicole, Charles, and Cliff 92007), they

found out that students use social networking sites approximately 30 minutes, throughout

the day as a part of their daily routine. Using social networking accounts in a day is not

bad, but there are some people or students that abuses the use of social media, according

to some observation, most students use their phone to open their social media account for

about 2-3 hours and above a day, not knowing the negative effects of improper use of

their mobile phones. (Anonymous, 2014) In 2012, more than 1.4 billion internet user

accessed to social networks and these figures are still expected to grow as mobile devices

usage and mobile social networks increasingly gain traction. (Boyd and Ellison,

2017)The use of social media in student’s everyday life is very important, that is why the

use of social networks is increasing. The evolution of internet has led to its usage as the

best medium of communication whereby two third of the internet world’s population

visits social networking sites, thus serving as communication and connection tools. These

networking sites are referred to as social media. Social networking sites is another way to

connect to other people even in your love ones.

The social media is a faster and reliable way for better communication.

As we can observe today, even you are a thousand of miles away, you can contact the

person you want to, and by the help of social media you can stay in touch of them that is

how the social media influences and help us in our everyday life it makes our life easier.

(Heyam, 2014) Social media is considered to be the fastest growing web application in

the 21st century and this rapid development is being backed by technological

advancement. We are living in the 21st century world with the great influence of modern

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technology and social media, most of the people today are updated when it comes to

social media, because social media has become part of their life, wherein using of phones

in their everyday life is important, in way of communication and contacting other people.

According to Adaja (2013), social media has the capacity to improve the participation

because of the textual and audio visual characteristics appeal, the openness, conversation

nature and connectedness. Social media help us to boost our self-esteem where we can

express our own feelings, emotions, and opinions toward others.

According to Jha, and Bhardwaj (2012), social media exploded as a

category of online discourse which enables people to create contents, share them,

bookmark them, and network at a prodigious rate. Other people share their own

information or ideas through blogging, creating videos to share and inform others,

creating own websites to give knowledge to others. Blogs and forums is a kind of social

media wherein people are free to be part of a group blogging to share their own

information, through those kinds of social media it gives the students or other people in

the society an opportunity to learned new discoveries in the present society. (Slaughter,

2012) Social media networking have deeply transformed the learning when students are

connected to earn better grades at school. Social media as part of every students life helps

them to boost their self-esteem, helps them to be more productive that can help them

when it comes to their academic performance. As a conclusion, other researchers find out

the possible effects of social media usage to the students that is related to this research

topic, those data or information will help the researcher of this topic to gather ideas and

create an answer to the existing problem.

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 Chapter III

Methodology

The Researcher used qualitative research, it aims to present and provide an in-

depth understanding about Social Media Usage and how it affects the academic

performance of the students. In carrying this study, a phenomenological case study was

used in order to present a deep investigation and bring out the experience of the

participants. This phenomenological study will show all the specifications regarding the

Social Media Usage.

This study was carried out in San Simon High School, San Jose, San Simon

Pampanga. The participants were Senior High Students that are from different track and

strand. We chose Senior High Students because we know they are matured enough and

aware about their daily lifestyle and their behaviour.

The participants have been chosen through the purposive sampling technique, a

non-probability sampling technique. Since it aims to explore the impact of Social Media

Usage, some Senior High Students experiences the impact of social media usage in their

daily life. This research have been taken from (December- March) of the school year

2018-2019. The number of participants will be choose based on their willingness to

answer the questions honestly, in order to avoid the falsity of the information and to help

the researcher to come up to the exact answer.. Researchers interviewed 20 participants,

10 comes from grade 11 and another 10 comes grade 12.

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 The instrument that the researchers used in this phenomenological case study is

written review. This written review will help the researchers to gather and collect more

responses and interpretation of Social Media Usage by the Participants. This written

review will help the participants to express themselves in a better and clearer expression.

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 Chapter IV
Data Presentation and Analysis

This chapter shows and interpret all the results in this study through which 10
grade 11 and 10 grade 12 students are the participants. After collecting data, results were
analysed through figures with description.

Table 1: How many hours do the respondents spend a day in using social media?
No. of Hours No.of Participants
1-2 hours 5
2-3 hours 6
3-5 hours 8
Others (5 hours and up) 1
Discussion of Findings:

In this table, it shows how many hours do the students spend social media a day.
There are 6 out of 20 participants spend 1-2 hours a day in using social media, 5 of the
participants spend 2-3 hours a day, and 8 of the participants spend 3-5 hours a day while
1 of the participants spend 5 hours and up a day.

Table 2: Social media sites that the respondents used

Sites No.of Participants
Facebook 15
Instagram 0
Twitter 1
Others(YouTube,wattpad) 4
.
In this table, it shows what are the social media sites do the respondents visits a
day. The 15 out of 20 participants mostly used Facebook, 5 out of 20 participants used
twitter and 4 out of 20 participants used other sites like YouTube and watt pad.

Table 3: Do social media help the respondents to finish their work faster?
Response No.of Participants
Yes 10
No 3
Sometimes 7

In this table, it shows the responses of the students if social media usage help
them to finish their school work faster, the 10 out of 20 of the participants said yes, while
7 out of 20 participants said sometimes it can help them to finish their work, lastly the 3
out 20 participants said no.

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Table 4: Why do the respondents use those social media sites?
Reason No.of Participants
For pass time 11
For communication 6
To gather information 3

In this table, it shows the reason why the participants use those kinds of social
media every day, 11 out of 20 participants used social media for pass time, the other 6
participants used social media for communication while the remaining 3 of the
participants used social media for gathering data.

Table 5: Social media sites that the respondents mostly visits.

Sites No.of Participants
Facebook 16
Google 1
Instagram 0
Twitter 0
Others(watt pad and YouTube) 3

In this table, it shows the most visited sites by the students, 16 out of 20
participants used Facebook, 3 out of 20 participants used Google, while the remaining 1
participant use other sites like YouTube and watt pad.

Table 6: In using social media does it help the respondents to communicate better
Response No.of Participants
Yes 16
No 0
Sometimes 4
In this table, it shows the percentage if social media usage help the respondents to
communicate better. The 16 out of 20 participants said yes, while the 4 out of 20
participants said sometimes it help them to communicate better.

Table 7: Do the Respondents sleep late at night due to social media usage?
Response No.of Participants
Yes 9
No 5
Sometimes 6

In this table it shows the number of the respondents that sleep late at night due to
use of social media that may affect their academic performance. The 9 out of 20
participants said yes that they sleep late at night in using their phone and social media,
the 6 participants said that sometimes they sleep late at night, while the other 5
participants said no.

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Table 8: How many of the respondents come late to school?
Response No.of Participants
Yes 2
No 17
Sometimes 1

In this table, it shows how many of the participants come to school late because
they are lack of sleep because of using their phone and social media sites even in the time
of their rest at night.

Table 9: Does social media affect the health of the respondents?

Response No.of Participants
Yes 8
No 7
Sometimes 1
Undecided 4

In this table, it shows how many of the participants affect their health in using
their social media that may also affect their academic performance. The 8 out of 20
participants said that social media usage affect their health, 7 of the participants said that
it doesn’t affect their health the 4 is undecided to their answer, while the remaining 1
said that sometimes it affects their health.

Table 10: Do the social media affect the academic performance of the students?
Response No.of Participants
Yes 5
No 10
Sometimes 1
Undecided 4
In this table, it shows how many of the 20 participants said that social media
affect their health that may affect their academic performance.

Table 11. Average Grade of the participants in the last Grading Period. (Third Grading)
Average No. of Participants
75-80 0
81-85 7
86-90 4
90 and Beyond 9

In this table it shows the Average of the participants in the last grading period, 9
out of 20 participants have 90 and above grades, 4 of the participants have 86-90 average,
while 7 of the participants have mid-low average 81-85.

Table 12: Statements/opinions of the participants regarding the effect of social media
usage to their health

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 Statements of the Participants No. of
Participants
 Yes, it affects my health 8

 Sometimes, because I sleep late at night, and I know I get some 4

radiation to the phone that I’m using that can affect my health.

 Sometimes I forget to eat my meals because of using my phone 3

and social media sites for a lot of time.

 It doesn’t affect my health because I eat in the right time and I 5

balance it.

In this table, it shows the statement of the participants in the question number 9 if
social media usage affect their health that may also affect their academic performance.
Some of the participants’ answers are the same, so the researcher put all the statements in
the table above and put the corresponding number of participants who answered with the
same statement.

Table 13: The statements of the participants regarding their academic performance if it is
affected by social media usage.
Statements No. of Participants
 It helps me in my everyday life 5

 Sometimes I cannot do what I need to do. 1

 No, because I can handle and manage my time. 3

 Yes, because instead of doing my paper wok I surf the 1

internet.

 Not at all, because I can separate my time from studying 10

and using social media sites.

In this table it shows the Statement of the participants in question number 10 if

their academic performance is affected in social media. Most of the participants answered
that social media usage doesn’t affect their school work because they can manage their
time. Some of the participants’ answers are the same, so the researcher put all the
statements in the table above and put the corresponding number of participants who
answered with the same statement.

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 Chapter V
In this chapter, the summary of the findings, conclusions and recommendations are
presented.

Summary of findings:

The study is about the effects of social media usage to the academic performance

of senior high school students in San Simon High School. About how may the students’

performance presented. How the students social media usage affect their academic

performance, how social media may help them when it comes to their school activities.

The findings of this study showed that there are positive and negative effects of

social media when it comes to the academic performance of the student.

1. The data gathered through questionnaires given to the participants. It shows

the result on how many hours do the participant spend using social media a

day. In the given data, most of the participants used social media for about 3-5

hours a day, if he/she did not balance the use of social media, it can affect

his/her academic performance, instead of studying lessons, they surf the

internet for a large amount of time.

2. The data gathered through questionnaires given to the participants. It shows

what kind of social media sites do the participants used every day or the kind

of social media sites they are being addicted. In the collected data it shows

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 that most of the participants used Facebook every day, while the other

participants used other sites like watt pad and you tube.

3. In the collected data in the table number 3, it shows that most of the

participants are agree that social media can help them to finish their paper

work faster. 10 out of the 20 participants answered “yes” that social media

help them, 7 participants answered, sometimes social media help them, while

the remaining three are not.

4. In the collected data in the table number 4 shows the reason why do the

participants use social media, 11 out of 20 participants answered that they use

social media for pass time, the other 6 participants use social media for

communication, while the last three participants use it to gather data.

5. In the collected data from table number 5 shows the sites that the students

mostly visit, it shows that 16 out of 20 participants use Facebook, 3

participants use Google, while the remaining 1 used for watt pad and

YouTube.

6. In the collected data in table number 6 shows if social media helps the

participant to communicate better. 16 out of 20 participants answered “YES”

that social media help them for better communication, while the remaining

four answered sometimes.

7. The data gathered through the questionnaires, it shows if the participants sleep

late at night due to social media usage. The 9 out of 20 participants said “yes”

that they sleep late at night due to social media usage, 5 participants said no,

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 while the remaining 6 answered that sometimes they sleep late at night due to

social media usage.

8. In the collected data in table number 8 shows how many of the participants

come late to school due to lack of sleep at night because of social media

usage. The 17 out of 20 participants answered “no”, 2 of the participants

answered “yes” while the remaining 1 answered sometimes.

9. In the data gathered through questioners, it shows if social media affect the

health of the participants. The 8 out of 20 participants said “yes”, the other 7

said “no”, 4 are undecided and the last one answered “sometimes”.

10. In the collected data in the table number 10 shows if the academic

performance of the participants are affected in using social media. The 10 out

of 20 participants answered “no” 5 participants said “yes”, the 4 participants

are undecided while the remaining 1 answered “sometimes”.

11. The data collected through questionnaires, it shows the average of the

participants in the last grading period (third quarter). The 9 out of 20

participants have 90 and above average, 4 participants have 86- 90 average,

the remaining 7 participants have 81-85 average. The social media have a

positive and negative effect in students’ academic performance, depending on

their responsibility in using it.

12. In the collected statements in table question number 9 of the questioner shows

the reason if social media usage affect the health status of the participants.

Most of the participants answered that they skip meals because in using social

media in their phone, they also forget to eat their meals because in using

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 social media. Others participants answer that they sleep late at night and the

result is lack of sleep and they come late to school.

13. In the collected statements in question number 10, shows the reasons or

answers if academic performance of the participants was affected in using

social media. The 10 out of 20 participants answered that they can separate

their time in school and in using social media. The 5 participants answered

that it helps them in their everyday life.

Conclusion

In carrying this study and collecting analysed data, it showed that social media

usage affects the other students’ academic performance while the others are not, while the

others are undecided if their academic performance is affected by social media usage. In

this study it also showed the other effects of social media usage to the senior high

students of SSHS that in the end it may affects their academic performance, it also

showed the health status of a student if he/she is not using social media in proper manner.

Through this research it opens the eyes of the students that social media can affect their

academic performance if they are irresponsible in using it. Half of the participants said

that social media did not affect their academic performance, but, the other questions that

they answered it clearly showed that social media usage can affect them in other way and

through that way, not knowing it may affect their academic performance. In this findings

it showed that not all the students’ academic performance are not negatively affected by

social media usage while the others are affected, it depends upon their responsibility as a

student on how they will manage their time In school and in using social media. Based on

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the grades of the participants, most of them, their grades are not affected to social media

usage, while the others are affected, while the other participants, their grades became

better through the help of social media.

Recommendations
The following are hereby recommendations.
1. The school should implement seminars to the students about what are the effects

of imbalanced use of social media.

2. You can use social media anytime, but be responsible.

3. Always manage your time when using phone and social media so it will not

distract you from the other things that you need to do.

4. Use social media in a proper way especially in school.

5. Don’t skip meals just by surfing on the internet to access your social media sites.

6. Do the important things rather than spending a lot of time in your social media

sites.

7. Be aware that using phone in a large amount of time can affect your health

because phone has a radiation that can negatively affect some of our bodily

systems especially the eyes.

Suggestions for further studies

This study serves as a basis on the effects of social media usage to the

academic performance of senior high students of San Simon high School. Similar

studies should be conducted in other way to bring some improvements that will

help the students to know the effect of social media usage when it comes to the

academic performance of the students and also to produce a lot of research paper

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 that may help to create some activities that gives the student an enough

knowledge about the effects of social media.

Definition of Terms
Social Media - forms of electronic communication.

Inattentive - not paying attention.

Academic - relating to performance in courses of study.

Cyberbullying - the electronic posting of mean spirited messages about a person often

done anonymously.

Website - a group of world wide web pages usually containing hyperlinks to each other

made available online by an individual, company, educational, institution, government of

organization.

Mentoring - someone who teaches or gives help and advice to less experienced and often

younger person.

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Name: (optional) Age:

Grade and Section: Sex:
Answer the questions honestly, encircle your answer.
1. How many hours a day do you spend in using social media? 11. Identify your last average in the last grading period.
a) 1-2 hours
b) 2-3 hours a) 75 – 80
c) 3-5 hours b) 81-85
d) others c) 86-90
d) 90 and above
2. What kind of social media sites do you visit?

a) Facebook
b) Instagram
c) Twitter
d) others

3. In using social media, does it help you in finishing your paperwork in faster way?

a) Yes
b) No
c) Sometimes

4. Why do you use the social media site in the question number 2?

a) For pass time

b) To communicate
c) To gather information or idea
d) Others, please include

5. What kind of social media do you mostly visit?

a) Facebook
b) Google
c) Instagram
d) Twitter
e) others

6. Does social media help you to communicate better to your friends, family and etc?

a) Yes 25
b) No

7. Do you sleep late at night because of using social media sites?

a) Yes
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We take pictures while the participants answering the questionnaire that we gave
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