Social Networking Sites: Effects on the Academic Performance of Students Introduction: Nowadays, people frequently use the Internet to spend time and most of them are students. In the last ten years, the online world has changed dramatically. Thanks to the invention of the social media making young men and women exchange ideas, personal information, pictures and videos easily through the Internet. Social networking is now one of the most interesting branch of the Internet, making the relationships
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The Influence of Social Media on the Study Habits of La Salle University-Integrated School Grade 8 Students CHAPTER 1 The Problem and a Review of Related Literature Nowadays, the advent of technology is quickly emerging before our eyes and undeniably, it takes a vital part to people’s lives of today. One evidence on this is the development of social media. Social media can be defined as the relationships that exist between network of people. Over the last few years, the online population
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The Impact of Social Media on Adolescents ILR 260 National University The emergence of social media has forever changed the way users interact with each other. Facebook became public in September of 2006, when it expanded its membership to any user 13 years and older instead of its exclusive University and High School members (History of Facebook, 2014). Twitter was created in 2006, but did not gain popularity until 2012 (Twitter, 2014). Today, there are many social media sites today, such as
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1) Investigate the effect that social networking sites may have within the business environment In current business environment are well connected to social networking especially for global organization. To perform networking, both parties need to play their part. We need take into the consideration of the culture, process, and security of the webpage as well as the benefits of purchasing the product though online shopping. All these will be the effect of social networking. For globalization network
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Social Networking Is a Positive Influence in Society The discussion of social networking positive and negative effects on society has been an ongoing discussion for almost a decade. People use social networking for many different outlets in both negative and positive ways. Society wants to focus on all the negativity that happens when people use social network sites as Facebook or Twitter, however society does not want to focus on all the positive aspects that comes from numerous social networking
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the study was to determine the effects of social networking to the academic performance of the students of Universidad de Manila. Specifically, it attempted to answer the following questions: 1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of age, gender? 2. What is the academic performance of the respondents in terms of general weighted average GWA (first semester S.Y. 2012 – 2013)? 3. What is the attitude of the respondents towards social networking? 4. Is there a significant relationship
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Forbes magazine reported that social media is becoming an increasingly important part of the business world. It is no longer a modern trend, social media has a firm place in a traditional and digital marketplace (Bosari, 2012). The major three social media sites are Facebook, Twitter, and Google. This paper will discuss Facebook in more detail. It will show its purpose, content as well as the cultural significance. In 2004, Facebook was founded by Mark Zukerberg with the mission to “give people the
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Facebook is known to be the most famous social networking sites in the world. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin on Febuary 2004. Facebook was originally created for Harvard students only, for them to keep in touch when they were away from the campus, but the site has been now expanded worldwide and has about billion active users and majority of these are college students. With the rapid changes to our generation, youth is now more demanding in acquiring
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International Journal of Research Studies in Psychology December 2012 - Special Issue on Positive Psychology, Volume 1 Number 3, 59-67 The mediating effect of relatedness on Facebook use and self-esteem Abellera, Nadine Angeli C. Department of Psychology, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines (nacabellera@gmail.com) ISSN: 2243-7781 Online ISSN: 2243-779X Ouano, Jerome A. Department of Psychology, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
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Different researchers have conducted research to ascertain the influence of social media on users; Moon, (2011) in a study on “impact of Facebook on undergraduate academic performance”, averred that social media have negative impact on students. According to the result, the more students use Facebook, the more it affects their academic performance. Oye, (2012) notes that most of the younger students use social networking sites mainly for socializing activities, rather than for academic purpose. Oye
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