The Effects of Social Media to the Study Habit of the Selected Junior High School Students of ETTMNHS SY 2018-2019

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Social media has fool, wrong, confusing online content that can harm your own reputation. The students become victims of social network more often than anyone else. This is because of the reason that when they are studying or searching their course material online, they get attracted to these sites to kill the boredom in their study time, diverting their attention from their work. Most of the students cannot live without social media and that leads them to get lazy on the other things. On that, we can already state that social media really has a big impact on every student. This research enables students to know the effects of the social media to the study habit of every student.

METHODS

The researchers used a Quantitative Method where the study used a Descriptive Design of research. The participants of the study were the Junior High School students of the Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School-Integrated Senior High School, School Year 2018-2018. To obtain good representation of the students, the researchers decided to randomly picked 10 respondents who are under Junior High School and considered as the sample population of the study. The researchers used survey forms as the instrument to gather the data.

RESULTS

Majority of the junior high school students agree that the social media has a bad effect in every student because it occupy their mind even in the middle of the class and affect their study habit that leads them into poor academic performance. However, there are few students slightly agree that social media does not affect their study habit.

DISCUSSIONS

It is evident from the result that overused of social media has a bad effect on the study habit of every student. Therefore, students should know how to control themselves in using any social media in able them to concentrate with their studies and to reach their highest dreams in life.