Chapter 1

1.1 Introduction

Over the years, there has been severe furtherance in technology. Social
media which is mainly for praifirating information has essential among students of
MPCA. Students can now easily share information, picture and post motivational
thoughts on the social media. With the advancement in technology, all these can
be done even in one’s bed or bed room at their convenience time using smart
phones, tablets, or personal computers.

However, on the other hand it has also affected the society in the negative
way. Just like anything which can be used for both good and bad, social media
have for people. It is all about the utilization and getting things. Done positively
by using the power of social media. It is in the hands of the user to use it’s
advantage. Furthermore, the use of social media like facebook can leads to
addictive behaviors and dependence among students of MPCA which calls for
concern.

This research aims to measure the effect of social media on the students of
MPCA lifestyle. How the social media affects mentally, emotionally and verbally.

1.2 Background of the Study

The researchers chase the subject about the effect of social media on the
lifestyle of senior high students of MPCA. The researchers specify these topic
because of our concern about the lifestyle and health of the youths. The
researchers made this research to help them know the negativity of social media
and it’s limitation. The researchers want to help them stimulate their unhealthy
and technological life.

Students who are too much fascinated on social media such as facebook that
they were forgetting the other matters in their life especially their studies, And
because of that their future were on pitfall. Hence, The researchers wants to
indoctrinate the students an appropriate usage of facebook as with other social
media.

1.3 Statement of the Problem

Generally, this proposed study would try to determine the effect of social
media on students of MPCA.
Specially, this study sought answer to the following questions:

1). What is the profile of the respondents in terms of:

1.1 Name (optional)
1.2 Age
1.3 Gender
1.4 length of time the respondents use facebook.
1.5 amount of money the respondents spends for internet data.

2.) What is the main advantages and disadvantages of using social media?
3.) How using social media does affect the students?

1.4 Scope and Delimitation

The study focuses on issues and problems that affects the students of MPCA.
This study will help the students. This researchers is limited and conducted at the
school campus school year 2018 – 2019. This respondents of the study are the
students of MPCA. The study is conducted on senior high school students

1.5 Significance of the Study

This study is significant to the teachers, parents and students. This study will
help the teachers of the school to know the influence that social media was on
their students, so all to assist them to enlighten and create awareness to the
students on the possible influence it has on them.

The study is of significant to parents in the sense that they will know the
possible effects. These social media usage has on their children, so as to serve
as watchdog to their children on the usage of social networking site.

The study will enable the students of their senior level so that they will be
aware that, apart from the social networking benefits, it will provide relevance
material for students and other researchers undertaking similar research. The
study will help researchers with more information on the influence of social media
on students academic performance.

1.6 Definition of Terms

1. Severe - (Of something bad or undevisible) very great; intense.

2. Furtherance - The act of function, advancement
3. Prolifirating - A rapid and often excessive spread
4. Essential - Absolutely necessarily, indispensable
5. Utilization - To put to use; turn to profitable account
6. Specify - To mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail
7. Stimulate - To rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or
pressure; spur nor;
8. Quality - A particular on definite or indefinite amount of anything
9. Lognizance - Awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception
10. High-Yielding - Producing a large amount; giving a high return.

Chapter 2: Theoretical framework

Review of Related Literature

Today’s students communicate via technology, and that If you say absolutely
no Facebook or texting, you are cutting off an important relationship with
students technology as an online teacher use of technology via the use of a
variety of tools such as Skype, text, email, Facebook and twitter. Students today
use social media anywhere and at any time where internet connection is
available in order to meet their educational needs (Dewing, 2010).
 Social media is becoming popular and even official communication is carried
out on them as well as personal. Yet, over usage of any media does have its
impact, both positive and negative.

With more than 350 million active users, Facebook is one of the most popular
social-networking sites in history. While it may have benefits such as connecting
one with friends, it may also have very negative effects that could be irreversible.
Three main negative effects that could arise from using Facebook include loss of
sleep, depression, and putting one in a dangerous situation.
Nonetheless, the use numbers continue to grow. Facebook, which remains the
largest social media company. (Cohen, 2019).Even with past data privacy
headlines and scrutiny, "Masses of people are not abandoning Facebook,
according to the company's fourth quarter earnings, released on
Wednesday"(Hamza Shaban, 2019 technology reporter for The Washington
Post).

Recently a study was conducted by the Royal Society of Public Health and
the Young Health Movement, which surveyed nearly 1,500 young adults around
the ages 14-24 from Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales. For this
survey participants were asked to rate 14 mental health and wellbeing-related
issues for different platforms of social media. The mental health and wellbeing-
related issues consisted of items like: quality and amount of sleep, feelings of
loneliness, bullying, fear of missing out (FOMO), anxiety, emotional support,
depression, self-expression and so on. Based on the results from the 14 health
and wellbeing-related questions, the study went ahead and displayed the overall
net impact of each social media platform on health and wellbeing. YouTube was
rated the most positive for health and wellbeing, followed by Twitter, Facebook,
Snapchat, and finally Instagram was found to be the most damaging for one’s
health and wellbeing. It has been noted by many that there seems to be a
problem with viewing image content since both Instagram and Snapchat were
rated so negatively and are social media platforms hugely focused on images
(Stonecipher, 2018).

According to a new study from Pew Research claims that 62 percent of

people get their news from social media, with 18 percent doing so very often.
Almost a quarter of the world’s population is now on Facebook. Because social
networks feed off interactions among people, they become more powerful as
they grow. Thanks to the internet, each person with marginal views can see that
he’s not alone. And when these people find one another via social media, they
can do things — create memes, publications and entire online worlds that bolster
their worldview, and then break into the mainstream. Without social media,
social, ethical, environmental and political ills would have minimal visibility.
Increased visibility of issues has shifted the balance of power from the hands of a
few to the masses (Gaitho, 2018).

H1. If some people on social media harass other to feel better about themselves,
this research will help to prevent or decrease harassment on social media.

2. Social media is popular and addictive, with the help of this research, the users
will be aware on it's effect on them and make their limitation on using it.

3. Social media was found healthy at the same time unhealthy in one's health
and well being and there are many people who's fond on using it, with this
research, they'll be aware on the effects of using it.
Review of Related Literature

The younger generation are the individuals that will lead our world in the
future, they must be well educated to be able to impact this world and make a
better future on the road of success.

As we know, nothing interesting is ever completely one-sided, so it is for

social media as it comes with both positive and negative effects. There is a
correlation between social media usage and academic performance of students
in universities. There have been various views and opinions which recognize four
major advantages of social media use in higher education. These include;
enhancing relationship, improving learning motivation, offering personalized
course material, and developing collaborative abilities (Wheeler, Yeomans and
Wheeler,2008; Rifkin, Longnecker, Leach and Ort).

They are the social generation and are considered as the founders of the
social media movement. Also known as Generation Y, millennials have a more
positive view on technology’s effect on their lives than any other generation
(Nielsen, 2014).
Tech-savvy Filipino millennials are at 27 million and counting, comprising more
than 70 percent of the county’s Internet users (Lamudi citing comScrore, 2014).
With the growing
influence of social media among millennials, social development programs must
start maximizing the massive reach of this tool to help them fulfill their
objectives.

But there are some abusing cases about the social media that we sometimes
won't avoid like: Filipino students have abused the advantages that Facebook
extends to them and they have been using it without caution and moderation.
Eventually, Facebook has greatly affected their academic lives. Generally, Garcia
stated that Facebook usage have apparent effects, both positive and negative,
on students. Facebook users spent less time in studying and they had lower
grades than those who did not use SNS (Social Networking Service).
Despite the pervasive impact of the social media in people’s lives at large, and
considering that the learners of today are defiant to outmoded teaching and
learning methods.

In today’s e-society, the role of the social media is increasingly gaining

momentum. Social media can be defined as a group of Internet-based
applications built on the ideological and technology of Web 2.0 which allow the
creation and exchange of user generated content. Social media is known to play
an essential role in collaboration, community building, participation and sharing.

Chapter 3: Research Methodology

3.1 Introduction

This chapter aims to person the methods and procedures that will be apply in
the study. However, it will furtherly discuss the process to collect info and data for
the purpose of educating and determinating hypothesis. The researchers will
explain farther the details and discuss the following organized sub-heading;
Research design, Justification of the research design, Research approach,
Research setting, Population of the study and Data collection.

3.2 Research Methodology

Research methodology contains the specific producers or techniques used to

identify, select process, and analyze information about a topic. This will help to
find out the result on the researchers research problem. The researchers will
conduct a survey by the given question systematically in the researchers own
way and find out all the answers till conclusion.

3.2.1 Research Design

The research design adopted for the study was qualitative method, for it is
primarily exploratory research. It is also used to gain an understanding or
underlying reasons, opinions, and motivation. The researches chose qualitative
research for it require the use of standardized measures in order to fit the
different perspectives and experience of people into a limited number of
predetermined response categories to which number one are assigned.

3.2.2 Justification of the Research Design

 It is an analytical methodology used in many academic disciplines,

typically in the social sciences. Simpasa (2018)
 It is used in fields such as market research. Simpasa (2018)
 It implies an emphasis on the qualities on entities. Use (2019)
 It is empirical research where the data are not in the form of number.
Mcleod (2017)
 It stress the socially constructed nature of reality. Use (2019)
 It is multi-method in focus, involving an interpretative, naturalistic,
Approach to its subject matter. Method (2017)
 It aims to understood the social reality of individual group and cultures
as nearly as possible. Mcleod (2017)
 It provides insight into the problem or helps to develop ideas or
hypothesis. Defranzo (2014)
 This method is not only about “what” people think but also “why” they
think so. Bhat (2019)
 Qualitative research methods allow for in-depth and further probing and
questioning of respondents based on their responses. Bhat (2019)

3.2.3 Research Approach

The research approach chosen for this research was narrative, the
researchers chose narrative research for it can help the researchers to
communicate the experiences for the respondents clearly. It is one way of
documenting the experiences of individual people.

A narrative research is a form of qualitative research that is used when a

researchers wants to share the stories of individuals. There are many everyday
examples that employ narrative design including autobiography, biographies,
narrative interviews, oral histories and survey.

3.3 Research Setting

The research aims to conduct their study to the criterion selected senior high
students. The study was conducted at Montessori Professional College Marikina
Branch which fall under the Marikina City. This study focuses about the affects of
social media on the lifestyle of Senior high Students. The researchers will
conduct the survey on 8th of March 2019 on the grounds of Montessori
Professional College Marikina Branch.

3.4 Population of the Study

Montessori Professional College Branch of Marikina accommodate an

average number of students around 1,000 who belong to the target participants
of the study who are the batch 2018-2019. The researchers get the 5% of this
population to accurately get the proportionate number of participants for this
number. Thus, the researchers will conduct a survey among fifty students who
belong to the target participants.

3.5 Data Collection

a survey is a research method for collecting info for a selected group of

people using standardized questionnaires. Surveys also require selecting
population for inclusion. Information you gather can come from a range of
sources likewise, There are a variety of techniques to use when gathering
primary data. Questionnaires and surveys response can be analyzed with
qualitative method by a narrative survey. Results are generally easier to analyze.

Summary

In order to accomplish this research, the researchers utilize survey and

questionnaires then will help to identify the effects of social media on the lifestyle
of the students. The researchers personally handed the survey questionnaires to
the respondents. The survey includes the information that will give contribution to
identify the main problems.

In addition, the researchers use the criterion based-sampling to meet the

certain respondents that might give the importance of having a good lifestyle in
using social media. Criterion sampling involves the identification of particular
criterion of importance, articulation of these criterion, and systematic review and
study of cases that meet the criterion. The reason for undertaking criterion
sampling is to identify major system weaknesses for improvement.

n a brief summary, this section explains the methods that were used to
conduct the surveys. It also discussed the research design, research approach,
research setting, population of the study, and data collection.
Chapter 4: Presentation, Analysis, and Interpretation of Data

This section of the paper is a summary of the findings of the survey conducted
for the purpose of investigating the research problem, to explore the relationship
between social networks and effects on student’s lifestyle, We chose a
respondents of 50 students who were senior high school students. The students
were chosen from grade 11 to grade 12 of Montessori Professional College of
Asia (MPCA).

Presentation of data is of utter importance nowadays. Afterall everything that’s

to our eyes never fails to grab our attention. Presentation of data refers to an
exhibition or putting up data in all attractive and useful manners such that it can
be easily interpreted. The 3 main forms of presentation of data are:

Textual presentation, Data tables, Diagrammatic presentation.

Table 1: The effects of social media such as Facebook on the lifestyle of Senior
High School Students of Montessori Professional College Batch 2018-2019.

Questions Yes No
1. Are you using social media? 50 0
1. Is social media helpful on you? 49 1
5. Have you ever ignored a responsibility like homework or 22 28
household chores because of social media
6. Do you ever stay up late or get up early to spen more time on 25 25
social media?
7. Did social media helps you in your educational needs? 45 5
8. Does social media helps you in socializing? 47 3
9. Do you use social media for important matters? 41 9
10. Do you think social media is the best way to communicate 47 3
with your friends, relatives and other people you know?

Table 1 above shows the explanatory power of the survey used in this
research. The table shows the number of respondent’s answers towards the
questionnaire with the total of 50 respondents. As the table shows in number one
question 50 respondents answered that they’re using social media which is 100%
in total. In number three question, 49 respondents answered that the social
media was helpful on them which is 98% of total and 1 of them answered that it
doesn’t help, which is 2% of total. In number five question, 22 of the respondents
answered that they have already ignored a responsibility like homework or
household chores because of social media which is 44% of total and 28 of them
answered that they haven’t ignored a responsibility because of social media
which is 56% of total. In number six question, 25 of the respondents answered
that they stay late up or get up early to spend more time on social media which is
50% of total. In number seven question, 45 respondents answered that social
media helps them in their educational needs which is 90% of total and 5 of them
answered that it doesn’t help them in their educational needs which is 10% of
total. In number eight question, 47 respondents answered that social media help
them in socializing which is 94% of total and 3 them answered that it doesn’t help
them in socializing. In number nine question, 41 respondents answered that they
use social media for important matters which is 82% of total and 9 of them
answered that they doesn’t use social media for important matters which is 18%
of total. In number ten question, 47 of the respondents answered that they think
social media is the best way to communicate with their friends, relatives and
other people they know which is 94% of total and 3 of them answered that it’s not
the best way to communicate using social media which is 6% of to total.

Table 2
Site Using
2. What Facebook Instagram Twitter Snapchat Youtube Othe
specific rs
social media
site 48 2 9 1 1
1
you’re using?

Table 2 above is the site that shows 48 of the respondents uses Facebook is
96% of total, 2 respondents uses Instagram which is 4% of total, 9 respondents
uses Twitter which is 18% of total, 1 respondent use Snapchat which is 2% of
total, 8 respondents uses Youtube which is 16% of total and 1 of the respondent
uses other site that was unmentioned.

Usage of Hours using Social media

4–6 6 – 10 10 hours
4. How many hours in a day do you spend Hours Hours or more
in social media?
32 9 9

In Table 3 above as the usage of hours using social media table shows 32 of
the respondents spend 4 – 6 hours in a day using social media which is 64% of
total, 9 of the respondents spens 6 –10 hours in a day using social media which
is 18% of total, and 9 of them spend 10 or more hours in a day using social
media which is another 18% of total.

Interpretation of Data

Based on the gathered data through the survey, the researchers found out
that all of the participants have their own social media account. 99% of them
profess that using social media is helpful to them . How be it, more than half of
them tell that using their social media account affect them in a negative way. For
an instance, they often ignored a responsibility like doing homework or
household chores. On the other hand, most of the participants have shared that
using social media helps them in various area such as academics, in socializing,
in communicating, and other important matters. The researchers also discover
through the information collected in the survey that most of the senior high
students in MPCA are actively using their facebook account in the span of 4-6
hours in a day.

This is to say that using social media affects the lifestyle of senior high
students of MPCA both in negative and in postive way as stated in data above .
Furthermore, using their social media account also helps them in many ways.
Chapter 5: Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation

This chapter presents the summary of the findings, so conclusions drawn from
the findings and the corresponding recommendations. This study was taken with
the general objective of determining the effects of social media on the lifestyle of
senor high school students of Montessori Professional College of Asia.
Specifically this study sought to answer the following questions:

1. What are the demographic profiles of the respondents in terms of:

1.1 Age
The largest group of the respondent was found on the age bracket of 18 with a
frequency of 23 or aprecentage of 46%
1.2 Educational Attainment
The respondents were from senior high students in grade 11 with a frequency
of 25 or a percentage of 50% and in grade 12 with the same frequency or a
percentage of 50%.

2. What are the main advantages of using social media?

1.3 Advantage
The main advantages of using social media include the ability of users to
conveniently stay in touch with friend and family who live far away. Social media
also offers plenty of opportunities for learning and interaction.

3. What are the main disadvantages of using social media?

1.4 Disadvantage
The main disadvantages of using social media include a decrease in
real-world, personal connections and the possibilities of cyber bullying, stalking,
hacking and other privacy concern.

4. How does social media affects the lifestyle of the students?

1.5 Effects
The most important things in a student life are studying, learning good habits
and gaining knowledge to become a person with moral character. But today as
we see, this advantage learning process is seriously threat by students become
entrapped by the device of social networking. Students neglect their
responsibilities by spending their time on social media rather than doing
important things in life.

Summary

The significance of this research have been distinguish that gives awareness
for the teachers for their students to have limitations of using social media, the
finding of data are also discussed above. It has that social media was really
helpful for a student’s life for it may help them make their works conveniently. But
there are still some students wo are utilizing social media just for a distraction on
their life.This conduct research concluded the disadvantages and advantages of
using social media. One of the disadvantages of using social media includes
being damaging for one’s health and well-being. It also shows how social media
change the lifestyle of the students. On the other hand, social media offers lot of
benefits such as connecting one with friends. Altogether, this research paper
have been discussed the introduction and problem of iii background, the
theoretrical framework, the research methodology, the summary finding,
conclusion and recommendations.

Conclusions

Based on the findings derived from this study, the following conclusions were
drawn.

1. Most of the students are actively using social media

2. Most of the students are fond of using facebook than the other social media
state.
3. The result showed that social media is helpful on the life of students
4. Most of the students spend more often use social media in a day
5. Almost half of the students neglect their responsibilities for social media
6. Almost of the students uncared about their health for the sake of using social
media
7. Most of the students find the social media useful for Educational needs
8. Social media was helpful in socializing
9. Most of the students use social media for important matters
10. Most of the students finds social media more efficient in communicating with
people

Recommendations

The following recommendations are offered based on the findings and

conclusion of the study.

1. The students should set their limitation on using social media. It might help
to avoid affecting important matters in their life.

2. The student should prioritize their health status rather than consuming their
life just using social media.

3. The students should know that its much wiser in communicating personally
rather than communicating in social media.

4. The students should not entrap their self in social media. For they might
they might forget what real world means.

5. The researchers should gather more information about the advantages and
disadvantages of social media. For they will gain more knowledge.