Causes and Effects of Social Media on the School Performance among Grade 12 ABM Students at Bestlink College of the Philippines SY 2018-2019

Abstract

Social media is defined as the websites that connect millions of users from different parts over the world who share the same interest, points of view and hobbies. It is an internet-based form of communication. Social media platforms allow users to have conversations, share information, and create web content. There are many forms of social media including blog, micro-blogs, wiki, social networking sites, photo sharing sites,instant messaging, video sharing sites, podcasts, widgets, virtual worlds, and more. Social media is considered as one of the most recent and significant websites being used by the students to search for their school works. It provides access to students to know their interests and needs as well as affects their school performances. This study shows the role of social media and social networking sites in the academic performance of students. The researchers selected 50 Grade 12 ABM Students from the MWF schedule and used survey questionnaires to gather data. The researchers prepared a draft of the questionnaires guided by the research adviser. Descriptive design was used in the research. Respondents answered strongly agree to the indicators in the questionnaires such as the use of technology makes finding related literature and studies easier, producing copies of documents are made easy with technology, encoding documents are convenient compared to manually writing them, saving files are now simple, including backup and storage, lessening of workload when doing research, enhancing teacher-student interaction and communication, aids in making learning fun and meaningful, making student collaboration possible via media and applications, and providing a vast source of information that gets updated almost every day through search engines. Information and data gathered with technology are easy to authenticate, and technology and information can now filter results on the requested query. Although many parents may be worried that the rise of social media is distracting children from their studies, new European research suggests that using sites such as Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram has a minimal effect on academic performance. In this study, the researchers found that students who used social media intensively to communicate with their peers and teachers about school-related topics tended to have slightly higher grades.