TO: Prof. Goerge Cuevas
FROM: Chua, Marielle Ann S. EN212/01127 Cosme, Chen A. Dulce, Nairadeth A. Dumulong, May Ann E. Ildefonso, Rachel A.
SUBJECT: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
DATE: October 04, 2010
Aryn Karpinski, a researcher from Ohio State University says that students who use Facebook are underachieving in exams. Instead of spending time doing the assignments and work, students would rather to sit, face on the screen and checking updates on Facebook. Study shows students who spend more time on Facebook spend less time in studying. User students spend time for five hours studying while students who are non-users studied eleven to fifteen hours per week which has significant that Facebook users have an averaged of low grades rather than those non-users. Karpinski added that there may be other factors that can affects the study habit of students such as personality traits that link Facebook use and lower grades and some students would still find other ways to avoid studying that still get lower grades.
Sharon Gaudin from ComputerWorld Company says that college students have always had study distraction from video games to parties and other entertainments. But Facebook really takes distractions in the study. Bored students can spend hours updating accounts, check new updates, looking at pictures and playing games or any applications on the site. And because of modernization, mobile phones and mini laptop with wifi source which presence of Facebook can go anywhere.
As Paul Kirshner author of the daily mail quoted that most students who have Facebook account affects not only the study habits but also the task at home. Students tend to be a multitasking person to keep updated and to do the task at the same time. Instead of make the work done earlier, students makes the task faster in result that works would take long and leads to more mistakes.