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Introduction
The research is about The Effects of selected social media websites to the High
school students of St. Jude College- Cavite. In this study, the researchers will
determine the effects of selected social media websites which are Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube etc. to the high school students of St. Jude College. From the beginning of
social media, this changed everything when it comes to health, social, and academic life
on each and everyone who were using these websites for most things like paper works
and researches such as teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, and especially, students.
Social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr etc.
This may be essential towards studies and friends, social networking sites are also
helpful to communicate and interact to other people, from far places like abroad.
Although social networking sites may benefit the whole world to be a better people,
social media could still affect these people in the bad way such cyber bullying, and
misunderstandings through social media websites.

Background of the Study

Technology goes wider and wider as the time passes by. The researcher had
noticed that the high school students of St. Jude College- Cavite that there are a lot of
students who have applied social media websites to their everyday lives. Because of
social media website, from the researchers hypothesis, many high school students are
losing concentration and focus about their responsibilities as a student and a fellow
member of a family.
And because of this, the researcher wants to determine the effects of social
media websites are to the high school students of St. Jude College- Cavite.

Statement of the Study

The objectives that will be answered in the study are:
1. What affects the students in using social media websites?
2. What are the effects of social media websites in the positive way and in the
negative way?
3. Throughout their academic and social matters, how does social media websites
truly affect them?

Hypothesis

The hypothesis of the researchers study, before the researcher had conducted
the gathering of data was a little bit different to the actual questionnaire that the
researcher has performed. From the researchers guess, many people would have
voted that social media does affect their everyday lives because, it helps you from many
aspects like for example; students are using social media websites for academic
purposes, and so, it affects the studies and the students personal time management
which it is either a positive or a negative effect to the students
.
Significance of the Study
The researchers study could benefit the high school and also to students who
will be a high school student in the future by giving them knowledge about social media
websites. The research study could state how does social media websites to affect
them, and what is the positive and negative effects to them as a high school student. In
that way, students can be aware about the advantages and disadvantages of social
media websites and prevents social media to be the cause of bad academic
performance and conflicts.
And also this study can support a study that is also related or similar to its study.
Scope and Limitations of the Study
The researcher only questioned 35 high school students of St. Jude College
Cavite. For the topic of the study, the researcher only scoped about selected social
media websites such as Facebook and twitter because these are the most popular
social media websites in the said institution. The researcher only included high school
students because there are more aware about social media websites rather than
primary level students especially from the grades 1-3 and NKP even though grades 4-6
is also aware about social media websites but the researcher only included the high
school students.

Review of Related literatures

Foreign Study
The article being reviewed is important for it shows the negative effects that a
high school student could encounter. Social media could be very important for students
academic performance, information, entertainment, and communicating with other
people. Yet, it is always advised that social media could also give negative effects that
may distract you into your studies.
Social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. (Which are the
most commonly known SNSs in the Philippines.) may cause conflicts and arguments
especially cyber bullying which is definitely an illegal motion by insulting a person
through the use of social media. It may be from sending illegal text or foul gestures, or
even a photo or a video that is offensive to the victim.
Social Media also affects your academic performance and overall health,
sometimes social media becomes a total distraction to your studies, forgetting about
your tasks (such as homework, research) and read your friends status and then to the
other. When it comes to Overall health, students dont mind about their hunger and
personal hygiene when they are playing such as virtual worlds.
Bad Effects of Social Media for Students: On April 23, 2013
http://www.propagandabydesign.com/2013/04/bad-effects-of-social-media-for-students/
Local Study
The article is about a survey that was presented by the First Catholic Social
Media Summit, which states that the social media users in the Philippines was rapidly
increased from 51% up to 82% in 2011. Numerous businesses were launching an Initial
Public Offering (IPO).
At the First Catholic Social Media Summit, it says that if Lady Gaga could
influence a massive amount of her followers, why not the church could do so? What if
the Catholic Church would use the Social media to spread the word of God?
Social Media CBCP News on Dates July 16- 29, 2012; Editorial
http://www.cbcpnews.com/cbcpnews/?p=544
As to compare between the two articles, the 1 st article is about the positive and
negative effects that the Social Networking Sites (SNSs) could affect each of social
media users who use it as a tool to communicate and interact. While the 2 nd article is
about how social media could influence people the same as how could it affect it to
people especially students.

The variables of the articles being reviewed is;

Frequency of going online on a particular site

Type of social networking site being logged on
Activities that are being made on the particular social networking site

Purpose

The reason why the researcher choose this topic is because, the researcher
wanted to know how social media websites affect the high school students of St. Jude
College, if it does, why do the student need to visit those websites, and for them, what
are the positive and the negative effects of social media websites to the high school
students of St. Jude College- Cavite,

The researcher also wanted to know how the students are using social media
websites for academic and social matters to them, how many hours they stay in the
particular website.

Which effect is the most common problem or advantages to students academic

and social life, for students to learn more about what can a social media website can do
for each student,

The research significance is also for students to understand the positive and
negative effects to them; it is also to have more knowledge about social networking
sites and the positive and negative effect to the students. Although, the students of St.
Jude College- Cavite might have knowledge about what the social media could do to
them if they are not being careful at browsing, searching, updating from their gadgets
and taking care of themselves.

Method

The method used for the research to gather data is the use of questionnaire. So
the researcher used a questionnaire as a method to gather data for the research study;
the questionnaire is only contained for about 9 questions; 4 questions for personal
information and 5 for its content and each question must be answered briefly.
And these are the questions;
What are the websites do you usually open?
How many hours were taken from opening these websites?
What is the purpose why do you open these websites?
Does this affect your everyday live?
12
10
8
6

Male

Female

2
0
1-3 hrs

4-6 hrs

30- 45 min./less

(Time used)
18
16
14
12
10

Male

Female

6
4
2
0
Facebook

Twitter

Youtube

Google

(Websites they open)

Others

Principal Findings

Input
-Websites
they visit
-Reasons
-Time taken
-The Positive
and Negative
effect

Output
-How does
social media
affect the
highschool
students of
St.
Jude
College

Conceptual Framework

Process
-Questionnaire

Yes

votes
No

10

12

14

16

18

20

According to the survey, several of the 35 respondents did not have any
statement the negative effects that social media websites can give them. Also,
appeared the survey that, facebook is the most visited website by the high school
students. 58% of the total population of respondents that social media websites does
not affect their everyday lives.

Conclusion
The researcher learned that social media websites is clearly can affect a
students academic and social life both in positive and negative, as a student, social
media is also important to help us to ask questions to teachers at home, to practice
freedom of speech and to communicate with a family relative or learning knowledge by
just one click of the syncing button of your cell phone or iphone.

Most of the researchers respondents were female, and as the researcher tally up
the results the researcher have seen that much of the answers are clearly be
considered as a data than to the male, the researcher also learned what affects them
and what causes them, Social media websites is critically essential for the students
academic and social matters and how social media websites such as facebook are very
useful to every student in this generation of modernized technology.
And even though these websites is very useful to humankind, these could still
harm us in every advantage websites are given.

Research Design
There are many positive and negative effects that social media websites can give
to students, and according to the results of the survey, the positive effects is related to
the students academic performance such as assignments and paper works and
entertainment. On the other hand, the negative effects are related to the students
overall health and social issues such as eye problems, lack of sleep, and cyber bullying.
Respondents
The total population of respondents of the researchers study is 35, from the high
school students of St. Jude College- Cavite. After School time curfew to the last day of
the 3rd quarter examination and also the last day before the start of the Christmas break,
the questionnaire is given to the respondents that are randomly selected in the SJCCavite covered court.
Instruments
The instrument used in gathering data is the use of questionnaire, consisting of
nine questions. 4 of the questions are for personal information which is the name, age,
grade and section, and the gender of the respondent. The personal information will
measure the characteristics of the total population of the research which is the number
of the gender, the year and the section etc. On the other hand, the other 5 questions is
the content to answer the research questions which are the positive and negative
effects of selected social media websites to the high school students.
Instrument: Checklist
The positive and negative realization of
the students regarding of the effects of
computer

Person 1
Person 2
Person 3
Person 4

Yes

No

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Person 5

Male

Female

Person 1
Person 2
Person 3
Person 4
Person 5
Person 6
Person 7

Statistical Treatment Data

The results were calculated by tabulation. And the interpretation of the data and
results, the researcher used a graphical (bar and column chart) and the descriptive
method.

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Tabulation
Male

Female

Total

1- 3 hours

11

20

4- 6 hours

15

Total

15

20

35

(Time used in using social media websites)

Computation
Male- 1- 3 hours- _9_ = 30%
35

Female- 1-3 hours- _11_ = 31%

35

4- 6 hours- _6_ = 14%

35

4- 6 hours- _9_= 30%

35

30% of the total population of respondents has voted that they use their computer
gadgets to open social media websites while 14% percent of the respondents are using
computer gadgets for social media websites.
31% of the total population of respondents has voted that they use their computer
gadgets to open social media websites while 30% percent of the respondents are using
computer gadgets for social media websites.

Tabulation

Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Google
Others
Total
(Websites that they open)

Female
16
6
11
12
4
49

Male
9
3
6
9
6
33

Computation
Female- Facebook- _16_ = 20%
82
Twitter- _6_ = 7%
82

Male- Facebook- _9_ = 11%

82
Twitter- _3_= 4%
82

Youtube- _11_= 13%

82

YouTube- _6_= 7%
82

Google- _12_ = 15%

Google- _9_= 11%

Total
25
9
17
21
10
82

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82
Others-_4_ = 5%
82

82
Others-_6_ = 7%
82

Out of 82 votes, 25 of the votes are from facebook, 11% of it is male and 20% of
it was female. 9 of the votes are from twitter, 4% of it is from male and 7% of it was
female.
17 of the votes are from YouTube, 7% of it was from male and 13% of it was
female. 21 of the votes are from Google, 11% of it is male and 15% of it was female and
10 of the votes are from the other social media websites that is not mentioned, 7% of it
is male and 5% of it was female.

Tabulation
(The negative and positive realization of the students regarding of the effects of
computer)
Votes

Total

Yes

14

14

No

19

19

Total

33

33

Computation
Yes- _14_= 42%
33
No- _19_= 58%
33
42% of the total population of respondents voted that social media websites
affect their everyday lives and 58% of the total population of respondents voted that
social media websites does not affect their everyday lives.

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Summarization
Chapter 1
The research is about The effects of social media websites to students of St.
Jude College- Cavite; High school department. In this study the researcher will
determine the positive and the negative effects of selected networking sites to the high
school students of St. Jude College- Cavite.
The statement of the study is what are the positive and negative effects of social
media websites to them? Throughout their academic and social matters, how does
social media websites truly affect them? And what affects the students in using social
media websites?
The researchers hypothesis many people wouldve voted that social media does
affect their everyday lives because, it helps you from many aspects like for example; the
students are using social media websites for academic purposes it affects the studies
and the students personal management to the time that its either a positive or a
negative effect to them.
The researchers study could benefit the high school and also to students who
will be a high school student in the future by giving them knowledge about social media
websites. The research study could state how does social media websites to affect
them, and what is the positive and negative effects to them as a high school student. In
that way, students can be aware about the advantages and disadvantages of social
media websites and prevents social media to be the cause of bad academic
performance and conflicts. And also this study can support a study that is also related or
similar to its study.
The researcher only questioned 35 high school students of St. Jude College
Cavite. For the topic of the study, the researcher only scoped about selected social
media websites such as Facebook and twitter because these are the most popular
social media websites in the said institution. The researcher only included high school
students because there are more aware about social media websites rather than
primary level students especially from the grades 1-3 and NKP even though grades 4-6
is also aware about social media websites but the researcher only included the high
school students.

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Chapter 2
Social media could be very important for students academic performance,
information, entertainment, and communicating with other people. Yet, it is always
advised that social media could also give negative effects that may distract you into
your studies. The article is about a survey that was presented by the First Catholic
Social Media Summit, which states that the social media users in the Philippines was
rapidly increased from 51% up to 82% in 2011. Numerous businesses were launching
an Initial Public Offering (IPO). At the First Catholic Social Media Summit, it says that if
Lady Gaga could influence a massive amount of her followers, why not the church could
do so? What if the Catholic Church would use the Social media to spread the word of
God?
The reason why the researcher choose this topic for the thesis is because, The
researcher wanted to know how social media websites affect the high school students
of St. Jude College, if it does, why do the students need to visit those websites, and for
them, what are the positive and the negative effects of social media websites to the high
school students of St. Jude College- Cavite, The researcher wanted to know also how
the students are using social media websites for academic and social matters to them,
how many hours they stay in the particular website. Which effect is the most common
problem or advantages to students academic and social life, for students to learn more
about what can a social media website can do for each student,
The method the researcher used for the research for gathering data is easy and
time saving kind of method to collecting data. So we used a questionnaire as a method
to gather data for the research; the questionnaire is only contained for about 5
questions and each question must be answered briefly. And these are the questions;
what are the websites do you usually open? How many hours were taken from opening
these websites? What is the purpose why do you open these websites? Does this affect
your everyday live? And what are the positive and negative effects that it affects to you
through your studies, entertainment and social matters?
According to the survey, some of the researchers 35 students did not have any
point of view of what are the negative effects that social media websites can give them.
Also, appeared the survey that, facebook is the most visited website by the high school
students. 58% of the total population of respondents that social media websites does
not affect their everyday lives.
The researcher have learned that social media websites is clearly can affect a
students academic and social life both in positive and negative, as a student, social
media is also important to help us to ask questions to teachers at home, to practice
freedom of speech and to communicate with a family relative or learning knowledge.

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Chapter 3
There are many positive and negative effects that social media websites can give
to students, and according to the results of the survey, the positive effects is related to
the students academic performance such as assignments and paper works and
entertainment. On the other hand, the negative effects are related to the students
overall health and social issues such as eye problems, lack of sleep, and cyber bullying.
The total population of respondents of the researchers study is 35, from the high
school students of St. Jude College- Cavite. After School time curfew to the last day of
the 3rd quarter examination and also the last day before the start of the Christmas break,
the questionnaire is given to the respondents that are randomly selected in the SJCCavite covered court.
The instrument used in gathering data is the use of questionnaire, consisting of
nine questions. 4 of the questions are for personal information which is the name, age,
grade and section, and the gender of the respondent. The personal information will
measure the characteristics of the total population of the research which is the number
of the gender, the year and the section etc. On the other hand, the other 5 questions is
the content to answer the research questions which are the positive and negative
effects of selected social media websites to the high school students.
The results were calculated by tabulation. And the interpretation of the data and
results, the researcher used a graphical and the descriptive method.

Results and Discussion

The research being studied is conducted in St. Jude College- Cavite, were 35
high school students from grades 7 to 4 th year are surveyed using a questionnaire about
how social media websites are affecting them the positive and the negative way? As I
conducted the research, the result found that social media websites can benefit you
through social and academicals purpose and might also cause distractions and cause
negative effects to also its benefit to a student.
There are a lot of effects that could affect a student that uses social media
websites, either positive or negative affects, for entertainment, pastime, meeting new
friends, communication, and researches such as projects, assignments, thesis and
more. As based to my observations to the thesis the most common problem of a student
when it comes to social media websites is distractions. Social media can shorten your
time to do more important tasks like assignments and other purposes that needs to be
paid more attention than checking your friends status update.

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Recommendations
I recommend my thesis to the other students of St. Jude College- Cavite as a
guide or be used to support a research that also involves to the topic of the research.
The thesis could help to extend the knowledge of other researchers who is studying
about or may be studying other topics yet still similar to the thesis.