INTRODUCTION

Social media purpose of giving ideas and information’s that manage in

construction of virtual networks and intercommunication. In addition, trough
internet sources social media make it more useful and give users a simple
transmission of private information and important stuff. Moreover, many users of
social media uses smartphones, computer, laptops and different gadgets that
can be applied on sending and viewing of information in social media.

Here in Lyceum of Batangas, they were so many hard working students

studying in this school and through this difficulty they encountered, social media
becomes a part and contributed a big help on their studies especially when there
would come an examinations and projects or some questions that leave
unanswered. Social media help them to gather more information that helps them
surpass their difficulty.

Social media is also use as a tool to connect and communicate well easily
with each other, And by the help of social media, social media became more
important especially to the students who are miles away from their love ones that
help them more to communicate easily with their family and friends. And through
this social media their time, love and care for each other will always be present
and make social media feel like students of lyceum who are miles away from
their loves ones will always feel like near from each other.

Every student nowadays is being addicted with social media. They always
want to use it in every aspect of their lives. This study helped the researchers to
know how social media affects students and their studies. It also be a great help
for us to know what social media can bring to every student’s life advantages,
disadvantages and especially how this affects every student’s life was clearly
discussed on this study. This is for the researchers to be knowledgeable and
alert on what’s happening and what can happen to every student’s life and also
how it can affect the whole society.
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OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The goal of the study is to find out the profile of the respondents in terms
of sex, type of social media used, and to know the effects of usage of social
media in terms of studies and family relation. Moreover, to test the significant
difference in the responses of the effects of the use of social media when
grouped according to profile variables

LITERATURE REVIEW

Social media refers to the means of interaction between individuals. It is

where they create and share their thoughts, ideas, and exchange information
within a specific community or networks. The Office of Communications and
Marketing administer every Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube
and Vimeo accounts.

Effects of Social Media in Studies

Facebook has a major role to students. Some of the students are using
Facebook in academic objectives. Students would like to access to social
networking sites for them to be connected with their classmates. It was issued
that working with Facebook raise student self-confidence. They would feel
essential or being important in the society in comparison to those who do not
have an account. Facebook also broadcast story on what are happening in the
real world even in their school community. On the other hand, negative effects
flourish. It was found out that too much use of social networking sites could lead
into obsession that we called “social media addiction” and it is actually correct in
terms of using Facebook. Can you say that you are addicted in using Facebook?
A few would say “yes” and most of the students would say “no”. Well it relies
upon on the stages of your desire. In the previous study, it was found out that
many students in the different side of the world whether rich or poor are now
obsessed with it, to the degree where the student’s university activities like paper
works and their achievements are also damaged. Students who are always
consuming a lot of their time in just using social networking sites find it difficult to
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focus in their class; they feel sleepy so their attention is being divided (Paculan,
2014).

Students also use Facebook during the time when doing their
performance tasks and homework and they spend more time scrolling and
updating their newsfeed than finishing their tasks. It also affects the academic
performance of the students. It has also mental or emotional effects in students’
health. Students feel connected to everyone around them but it shows that it
could also lead into depression through seeing an article about problematic
issues (Paculan, 2014).

In addition as of today, social media has been a worldwide phenomenon.

Increase in programs made the medium of internet to market. Through its
interactive character, social networking tend to extend. Websites are being use in
different ways, just like selling stuffs, blogging, speaking, etc. Moreover, even
institutions nowadays are developing their groups through websites. This usage
of website has become a worldwide phenomenon that causes some computer
literate people to have the behavior in a particular place accepted as normal for
people from around the globe. Teenagers use social media for their everyday
lives. They use this to contact their peers, share their experiences, and share
information. This increase in technology helps people from around the world to
be connected and have a get together (Paculan, 2014).

Facebook clients routinely time experience down and out execution

scholastically. Also, set that web-based social organizing is unfavorably
associated with scholastic execution of understudy and is through more soil
shattering than its central focuses. Web oppression thus gave climb in web
utilization inside the first few decades, and proposed that subordinate clients
incline towards utilizing web setting back their claim and ace commitments, which
last prompts down and out instructive execution. He also mentioned that
Facebook users gave lesser time to their academic performances in contrast with
what nonusers did and accordingly had bring down GPAs. Moreover, it is stated
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that among distinctive one of a kind preoccupation of each age, Facebook

remain as an evidence diversion of current age (Al-Rhami, 2014).

Disability appertaining to educational administration along with online-

based dependency connected through utilizing simultaneous concurrence
programs in conjunction to online-based physical setting along with dissertation.
It has convenience as well as risks in relation to using a bit of interpersonal
association. There are reports in lined with impact on understudies' scholarly
completion. Some specialists explored the final product of satisfaction on person-
to-person connection and on its use among Undergrads' and with their scholarly
execution. They found a poor impact when the media prevailed to be misused
such that it do not scholarly improves information disseminated even the strategy
of learning. Another seekers inspected an identical drawback, however found
out that one or the other has nothing to be in a vital connection among utilizing
online platforms and in learner’s collegiate effectiveness (Othman, 2014).

Effects of Social Media in Family Relationship

Our world is continuously changing, if we take a moment to cast about all

around us, we will become conscious of the things that have changed over a
period of time. The beefing up of internet’s popularity has commutated
everyone’s lives and others are not fully aware of these changes. As a matter of
fact, Internet nowadays serves us the easiest and a blue streak to interact, even
not face-to-face, on the people living miles apart from us. But while we are
thinking that this really helps us grow our communication to others, face-to-face
interaction crisis in the family arises.

Being capable to interact and being guarded by those away from us in

just one snap or a blink of the eye is a doubtlessly a feature of Internet. Seeing
and hearing someone apart from us, using internet, is very heart-whelming and is
being treasured the most and became the reason of why we are appreciating the
essence of having Internet.
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Nonetheless, interaction over social networking sites could lead to family

conflicts. The principal cause of this is maybe the members of the family choses
to interact through social media more than having bonding to their love ones,
which is very impersonal. Moreover, sometimes even a mother forgets the
upcoming birthday of her child and only noticing it through social media, it depicts
the reality that all of us can be too much addicted to social networking sites and
makes us incapable of doing face-to-face interaction.

In other words, the Internet that we are thinking to has lots of benefits in
interaction is damaging our status as well. Most of people prefers to post
statuses, share and like articles and chat to their friends using social networking
sites rather than talking to their family and friends personally.

Students who get engaged with exercises via web-based networking

media destinations while contemplating result in decrease in their focal point of
consideration. This causes decrease in their scholarly execution, and focus to
consider too. The additional time the understudies spend on these online
networking locales, the less time they will go through associating face to face
with others. They might have low grades. Students get low evaluations in school
because of need wanted data and composing abilities. The understudy's
motivational level lessens because of the utilization of these interpersonal
interaction destinations. They depend on the virtual condition as opposed to
increasing commonsense learning from this present reality (Jones, 2012).

METHODS

Research Design

The researchers used correlational design a quantitative research

approach to determine the effects of the use of social media among senior high
school students of the Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas The main
goal is to identify whether social media helps or it becomes burden to students
who are using it.
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Participants

Out of 383 STEM-Engineering students enrolled during the school year

2017-2018 of LPU-B, the questionnaire was given to 197 respondents. The
students were determined through a stratified random sampling method. They
were the respondents who answered the questionnaire prepared by the
researchers.

Instrument

Since the researchers want to find out the effects of the use of social
media to the students of LPU-Batangas (STEM-Engineering), they gathered
information from books and internet. Moreover, the questionnaire being its main
instrument used in gathering data.

There are two sides of questionnaire. The first part of the questionnaire
dealt with the profile of the respondents in terms of social media used, and terms
of sex. The last part included questions about effects of social media in studies
and in family relations of senior high STEM Engineering students of LPU-
Batangas.

The researchers used a self – made questionnaire in gathering the data

needed. The researchers performed the pilot testing to the 30 STEM-Engineering
students to test the reliability of the questionnaires. With a Cronbach’s Alpha
value of 0.69, the indicators in the questionnaire were interpreted as
questionable in terms of family relations, while in terms of studies in turns out to
be unacceptable. After conducting a pilot test, the result were consistent and
reliable in terms of family relations so the researchers use an adapted
questionnaire in, in terms of studies; the researchers then distributed the actual
questionnaire to the participants of the study. The primary aim of the
questionnaire is to determine the effects of the use of social media to STEM
Engineering students of LPU-B.
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Procedure

Formulating the research topic is the first thing that the researchers
did. This was done by browsing on the internet, books and looking for trending or
the common problems encountered by students.

After selecting the topic, the researchers went to their adviser to ask for
approval of the selected topic. The researchers also came up with objectives to
be achieve in the end of the study. After that, the self-made questionnaire has
formulated and submitted to the adviser for the necessary corrections.

After completing the final draft of questionnaire, the researchers

conducted a pilot test to thirty (30) respondents to determine if the questionnaire
will pass the consistency and reliability of the questionnaire in determining the
effects of social media. After conducting a pilot test, the results of the
questionnaire said to be consistent and reliable. Next to that, the researchers
coordinated with the Principal through the Guidance Counselor of LPU Batangas
to asked for permission to conduct a survey on their institution.

The researchers explained to the respondents the purpose of

conducting the survey. After that, the questionnaires personally distributed and
then requested the respondents to answer it well and with all honesty.

The answered questionnaires has been collected and the responses

were tallied and tabulated for Statistical Treatment of Data.

After the necessary data was taken, it was analyzed, assessed

statistically and presented with interpretation.

Data Analysis

The required data were tallied, encoded and deciphered using statistical
tools. These tools include frequency distribution, weighted mean, and ANOVA
which utilized based on the goals of the study. In expansion, all information
treated were computed using statistical software, PASW version 18 to further
analyze the results of the study.
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Results and Discussion

Table 1
Percentage Distribution of the Respondents' Profile
N=197
Profile Variables Frequency Percentage
Sex
Male 89 45.18
Female 108 54.82
Types of Social Media use
Facebook 190 96.45
Snapchat 44 22.34
Whatsapp 12 6.09
Twitter 141 71.57
Skype 57 28.93
Instagram 112 56.85
Line 5 2.54
Youtube 168 85.28
Tumblr 72 36.55

Table 1 shows the rate dissemination of the respondents with regards to

sex, type, of social media used and duration of using social media.

From the table above that majority of respondents are female with
frequency number of 108 and percentage of 54.82 while on the other hand, the
male respondents has a frequency number of 89 and a percentage of 45.18.

In terms of the sorts of social media utilize, Facebook accumulated the

highest number of frequency with the percentage of 96.45. On the contrary, the
least type of social media used by the respondents was line with a frequency of 5
and 2.54 as percentage.

There are more than 40% of female than male users of social media. It is
because males usually want to interact with others in real world, while females
consume a greater amount of news from social media (Britton, 2018).
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According to study, Facebook is the most preferable social media sites in

the country. It is an easy application that can be used to communicate with other
people around the world. Students also using it to engage with the society and
use to communicate online with co students in doing their assignment and either
their projects these made it still ranked 1 st in social media industry. On the other
hand Line is not that popular here on the Philippines it is most commonly used in
other countries and its features is not that attractive to students thus it ranked the
least type of social media.

Table 2 presents the impacts of utilizing social media in terms of studies.

The composite mean of 2.40 shows that the respondents oppose this idea on the
said impacts.

Based on the findings the respondents agrees that online social networks
distract them from their studies with the weighted mean of 2.72. Students find
online social networks as a very useful tool in their studies. Because this helps
them to do homeworks and other tasks easily. But this social media also has its
bad side that truly distracts students in their studies that instead of using their
time checking their accounts they can use this in doing their papers or listening to
their professors. They’ve been addicted in this that they forget to do well in their
studies. They don’t notice that this helpful tool is also destroying their studies.
This type of compulsive behaviour can almost be deemed as an addiction.
Classes in higher education are usually three hours long, subtract twenty to thirty
minutes per hour for social media checking, and if one does the math you have a
student who is only paying attention 90 minutes out of the 180 minutes there are
in one lecture; multiply that by six or seven courses and by now you should get
where this blog is going. University and college students go through demanding
courses and do many assignments, which require the complete focus of the
student. However, students are not realizing the harm they are doing when they
are taking thirty minutes to check their social media network accounts when they
are suppose to be working on a paper (Smith, 2011).

Table 2
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Effects of using Social Media in terms of Studies

Weighted Verbal
Indicators Rank
Mean Interpretation
1. Addiction to online social network is
a problematic issue that affects my 2.71 Agree 2
academic life.
2. Online social networks distract me
2.72 Agree 1
from my studies.
3. Hours spent online can never be
compared to the number of hours I 2.70 Agree 3
spend reading.
4. There is no improvement in my
grades since I became engaged into 1.85 Disagree 5
this social networking site.
5. I usually have unlimited access to
facebook and this has affected my 2.02 Disagree 4
academic performance negatively.
Composite Mean 2.40 Disagree  
Legend: 3.50 - 4.00 = Strongly Agree; 2.50 - 3.49 = Agree; 1.50 - 2.49 = Disagree;
1.00 - 1.49 = Strongly Disagree

“Addiction to online social network is a problematic issue that affects my

academic life” rank second with a weighted mean of 2.71 and a verbal
interpretation and had an “Agree” as its verbal interpretation. The use of social
media is still the first or the biggest problematic issue on the students nowadays.
It lessens school performance, lessens the time spent to study and is conquering
our students minds everyday. Negative correlates of Social Networking Sites
usage include the decrease in real life social community participation and
academic achievement, as well as relationship problems, each of which may be
indicative of potential addiction. In addition, Paul, Baker, Cochran, in 2012 wrote
an article named effect of online social networking on student academic
performance. The researcher’s results revealed a statistically significant
negative relationship between time spent by students on social media sites and
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their academic performance. Time spent on social networking sites is shown to

negatively impact academic performance. As time spent on social networking
sites increases, the academic performance of the students is seen to deteriorate.
This ties in well with the findings presented in Kirschner and Karpinski, which
reveal that over-involvement or obsession with social networking by students can
have negative impacts on academic performance (Kirschner & Karpinski, 2010).

“Hours spent online can never be compared to the number of hours I

spend in reading” rank third with a weighted mean value of 2.70 and had an
“Agree” as its verbal interpretation. Students nowadays tend to use their gadgets
even if they just woke up in the morning. They visit their social media accounts
occasionally or two to three times a day to keep them updated in everyone’s
stories. They feel that they are being left behind if they will not open their
accounts. Students spend twice as much time as adults use social networking
sites because they are fueled by increasing use of tablets and smartphones.
People with the age of 16-24 years old spend more than 27 hours a week using
internet while the average adults spend less than 20 hours a week. Meanwhile
the average person spends 2.5 hours every week “online while on the move” -
away from their home, work or place of study. This is a five-fold increase from
2005, when the figure was just 30 minutes (Anderson, 2015).

The respondents disagrees that they usually have unlimited access to

facebook and this has affected their academic performance negatively with the
weighted mean of 2.02.Facebook is the most use and popular social media
around the world. Many of the user of facebook are teenagers who are also a
student. It has a huge impact to student negatively especially to their studies.
Facebook has a lot of feature that giving us pleasure to continue scrolling and
surfing it. Instead of studying students are wasting their time in posting, updating,
and chatting their friends so the result of these are low grades and poor
performances in school. Facebook has pulled-in impressive consideration among
researchers. As a social organizing location, it offers a web stage on which
clients make profiles, surfing the net, scrolling and updating their post, produce
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and share substances and data, and associated with other known and obscure
contacts. Amplified nearness on Facebook can have destructive impacts on
efficiency and errand execution. Long hours spending on facebook appear to
diminish under studies scholastic execution and in this way their grades ( Boyd &
Ellis, 2015).

Based on the findings of the study it disagrees that there is no

improvement in their studies since they become engaged into social media with
the weighted mean of 1.85. Social media to students have a big effects on their
studies in especially on their school. Their ability to assess, analyze, retain and
share information is skyrocketing and they often don’t even realize they’re
developing these skills. Only people born before the Internet was invented are
likely to understand the magnitude of this new style of communication. Students
now have the ability to reach out to industry experts across disciplines, and this
can help the students locate more authoritative sources of information. This is a
tricky endeavor and students must be taught how to evaluate the source of
information even when it may come from a supposed expert. At school, the
utilization of online platforms like school website can offer the students the right
get to quality data concerning the school setting, offices, resources, rules and
laws. Its been found that social media contains a more extensive and speedier
implies of current data do not exclusively to the researchers of an establishment
be that as it may furthermore to the simplification of the general ( Bolaji, 2017).

Table 3 presents the impacts of utilizing social media in terms of family

relations. The composite mean of 2.05 indicates that the respondents disagree
on the mentioned effects above.

Table 3

Effects of using Social Media in terms of Family Relations

 
Weighted Verbal
Indicators Rank
Mean Interpretation
1. I see the use of social media affects 2.48 Disagree 1
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my family.
2. I prefer to interact with people on
social media sites rather than my 1.92 Disagree 3
family.
3. I can see that my parents are
2.16 Disagree 2
addicted too.
4. I experienced saying "No" to an
activity with my family because of 1.81 Disagree 5
social media.
5. I feel distance between me and my
family due to excessive usage of social 1.90 Disagree 4
media.
Composite Mean 2.05 Disagree  
Legend: 3.50 - 4.00 = Strongly Agree; 2.50 - 3.49 = Agree; 1.50 - 2.49 = Disagree;
1.00 - 1.49 = Strongly Disagree

The respondents disagree in seeing social media affecting their family with
the weighted mean of 2.48. The use of social media nowadays are very popular
in the whole world. Even our parents use it to keep themselves busy. By the use
of social, our lifestyle change. We can do easily talk to someone who’s living in
the other side of the world. We can reach someone with just one click. Some of
the students are more satisfied in using social media than interacting in person. It
also affects the different members of the family. Sometimes children are desiring
to have an interaction to their parents but there are busy on using social
networking sites. Social media can develop a harmonious relationship with
others. One of the effective way is connecting with your love ones/ other even
you are miles apart. Hence, it can hinder some positive relationship with your
family ( Spark, 2018).

“I can see that my parents are addicted too” had the second highest rank
with a weighted mean of 2.16 and had a “Disagree” as its verbal interpretation.
Student sees their parents when using social media and had a thought of their
parents are the addicted one. Parents tend to check their child if they are posting
ungrateful articles towards others. They are monitoring their child’s behavior
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online that made them also to use social networking sites but they are setting
their own limitations on using it. Parents take a number of different steps to
monitor their child’s behavior and interactions in digital spaces, with personal
monitoring being the most prominent of these steps. Fully 61% of parents say
they have checked which websites their teen has visited, while 60% report
checking their teen’s social media profile. Teens are increasingly using mobile
technologies to communicate, share and go online (Pew Research Center,
2016).

Social media sites are a great help for every individual in interacting,
connecting and sharing information. This serves as a bridge for everyone around
the globe to connect with each other . On the other hand this is used for people
to reconnect and get along with their relatives and family that are away from
them. Using this they get to see each other and communicate even if they are far
from each other. This explains the result of the statement “I prefer to interact with
people on social media sites rather than my family.” with a weighted mean 1.92
and has been disagreed by the respondents. Technology can be used to keep
families connected. It can help members keep track of schedules, location, and a
sense of security between members that parents and/or children can be reached
immediately if needed. Technology is also helpful for families of divorce or
separation through more immediate voice or face contact. In a 2008 study
published by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, reported
that cell phones, email, and texting helped families compensate for the increased
stress of modern life by allowing them to communicate with family members
when apart (Liby Lyons, 2016).
Based on the findings of the study the respondents disagrees I feel
distance between me and my family due to excessive usage of social media with
the weighted mean of 1.90. The percentage of the family who has distant
relationship is growing explosively due to use of social media. Different types of
social media such as Messenger that has a feature that keeping us from being
entertained and from that we could hardly let go our gadgets. Having a
conversation to every part of the family by texting and leaving them a message
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via Smartphone. By the use of social media we feel welcome, happiness, and
freedom to express our feelings and from that we mostly consume our time in
using these social media than interacting to our family.

I experience saying “no” to an activity with my family because of social

media weighted 1.81. The percentage of the family in Social media is a big part
of social life for many children and families, but social media has risks as well as
benefits. By talking with your child and agreeing on some social media rules, you
can help your child get the most out of social media.  They use social media to
have fun, make and maintain friendships, share interests and explore identities.
It’s a natural extension of their offline and face-to-face interactions. But the
relationship and binding with in the family is affected because of this actions. The
research conducted for the non-profit Family Online Safety Institute(FOSI) found
that social media was the only online activity and technology for which more
parents believed the harms outweighed the benefits or were equally balanced.
Some 43% of parents thought the negative aspects of their child having a social
media account outweighed the benefits, while 31% thought the risks and benefits
were about equal. Only 26% thought the benefits were worth the potential risks.
Of those parents who said their child did not have a social media account, the
proportion who felt the risks outweighed the benefits hit 63%. For those whose
children were on sites such as Facebook, the comparable figure was just 26%.
Among the 53% of parents who said their child had a social networking account,
more than three quarters (78%) have logged on to their child’s account to check
their posts (Guardians, 2017).

Table 4
Difference of Responses on the Effects of the use of Social Media when
Grouped to According to Profile Variables
Profile Effects of the Use of Social Media
Variables In Studies In Family Relations
F p Interpretation F p Interpretation
valu valu valu valu
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e e e e
Sex 0.79 0.37 Not Significant 10.28 0.00 Significant

Legend: Significant at p-value <0.05

Table 4 reveals the significant difference on the effects of social media.

It was found out that there is no significant difference observed on the

effects of using social media in terms of studies when grouped according to sex.
It was also found out that there is a significant difference observed between the
respondents profile in terms of sex and the effects of using social media in family
relations. since the obtained p-value were lower than 0.05alpha levels, thus the
researchers reject the null hypothesis.

Last year there is an equal increase for both female and male usage of
social media, but the negative effect on mental health seems to afflict females
more than males (Courtney, 2017).

CONCLUSIONS
Through the results and findings that obtained, the researchers have
formulated the following conclusions.
1. Majority of the respondents were female. Facebook is the most used social
media.
2. Generally the respondents were not affected by the use of social media in
terms of studies and family relations.
3. There is a significant difference observed in the response on effects of the use
of social media in terms of family relations when group according to sex.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
In the list of the conclusions drawn from the findings of the study, the
following recommendations are submitted:
1. Students can utilize all the accessible online stages viably but they must
be cognizant of social media positive and negative impacts.
2. They ought to attempts as much as conceivable, to create a balance so a
not to induce carried away while learning
3. To the future researchers, conduct a widen study related to social media.
Study other impacts of social media in different aspects aside from studies
and family relations.

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