The Effects of Social Networking on the Grade 9 Students’ Academic Performance

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Foreign Studies

Nayzabekov (2012), in his study entitled, “Negative Impacts of Social Networking Sites on the Academic Excellence of the Students”, identifies the idea of multitasking, which students could perform different types of actions while visiting Social Networking Sites to include texting, instant messaging, playing games and searching information online. The author pointed out that multitasking skills or actions could affect the concentration of students. Performing different types of actions could affect one’s performance not only in academic but also in everyday task of students. For example, a student who has a lot of assignments and works on different subjects instead of doing it on time and early, visits Facebook. It also identifies the procrastination related problems that might evolve as a possible outcome of Social Networking Sites to the students. In this paper, he stated the idea of Ellis and Knaus, which defines the term as “a failure to initiate or complete a task or activity by predetermined time.” In other words, it can be described as a specific behavioral pattern that is dedicated for doing any non-academic tasks. According to the study, they did not do their academic requirements involved in the learning process with the help of social networking sites and it could possibly involve in the negative attitude towards their work. For instances, lack of parents’ attention could possibly affect the motivation of students or their children to do work. Instead of doing their work. They visited their personal accounts in particular SNS.

Local Studies

Social Networking Sites has a lot of uses like communicating with friends, sharing the same interests with other people, online games that help take away boredom, and as of now SNS is still even upgrading and advancing to try and make them more interesting. How can one say that a website is an SNS? An SNS consists of these characteristics –first is User-based, meaning the information is built and creates by users and not by any webmaster; second, it must be interactive, meaning it must not only be a collection of chat rooms and forums but there is also network-based gaming applications where you can play with others; third is community driven, meaning just like communities and social groups around the world with the fact that the members hold common beliefs; fourth, relationship, the more relationships that you have within the network, the more established you are toward the center of that network, and lastly is emotion over content, meaning that the social network actually provides users with emotional security and a sense that no matter what happens even if it is divorce, a break-up, or any family crisis, are able to jump online and communicate directly within the circle of friends. –Cuisia, Jomari and Yacap, Edward

Legal Basis

Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Websites that allow users to post their own content would be subject to copyright infringement if not for this section of the Copyright Act. Members of social networking sites can post personalized content and materials via their blogs, links and document uploads. The social networking sites are protected from any liability associated with featuring any copyrighted materials, provided they do not profit from it and if they provide their members with a mechanism for removing the content when and if they terminate their own accounts.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

Communications decency covers legal issues such as defamation and illegal content. Ideally, a content provider should not report false or defamatory news. But users of social networking sites can and often do post anything they want, including rumors and blatant lies. This section the communications decency act doesn't protect those users so much as it protects the social networking service itself from being served in a liability or defamation lawsuit. While the courts will ultimately decide whether social networks will be held liable, Internet law continues to grow with regard to privacy, copyright and commercial protections or liabilities. Several states enforce local legislation with regard to Internet issues, but these laws are applicable only in those states. Most social networking sites cross state and national borders, which makes writing and enforcing those laws very difficult.

CHAPTER 3

Methodology

Research Design

The study is a descriptive type of research, it describes a given state of which is carefully gathered, retrieved and tabulated. It enables to find some important answers to specific questions. This type of research is done by distributing self-made questions to the respondents for a purpose.

Respondents of the Study The respondents of this study are the Grade 9 students of Saint Paul University Dumaguete City, and are chosen at random.

Research Instruments

The main instrument used in gathering data was a questionnaire-check list, which was answered by random Grade 9 students of Saint Paul University Dumaguete. It was composed of questions that would determine how Social Networking Sites (SNS) would affect their academic performance.

Administration of the Instruments

The questionnaire checklist was distributed to the Grade 9 students of Saint Paul University Dumaguete City chosen at random. It was retrieved, tallied and interpreted.

CHAPTER 4

Presentation, Analysis, and Interpretation of Data

This chapter presents the data gathered by the researchers to be able to answer the following questions:

- Do Social Networking Sites (SNS) help me to better in school?

Table 1 shows that out of 20 respondents, 11 or 55% said that Social Networking Sites (SNS) help them in their studies, 4 or 20% said that SNS don’t help them in their studies, and 5 or 25% are uncertain whether or whether not SNS help them in their studies.

Table 1

Response

Frequency

Percentage %

Rank

Yes