III.

INTRODUCTION

Social networking sites, most notably Facebook have become so popular today that they are leading
words on the lips of every students. You love to spendmost of your time checking your Fcebook updates,
but do you know that there aremany negative effects of using Facebook?Most of the students don’t
realize the negative effects impacts of Facebook ontheir life. And, the main reason is because they are
already addicted to it. And, thisaddiction can lead to several negative developments.The main purpose
of this paper is to suggest some ways of minimizing the badimpacts of Facebook to students and to
show you the negative effects of this socialnetworking sites on students’ behavior and performance.
This research also focusedon finding ways to enhance students’ motivation and improve their
achievements, yetwithout looking closely at the sources for their demotivation or academic failures.4

IV.BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, ownedand operated by Facebook,
Inc. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billionactive users, more than half of them using
Facebook on a mobile device. Users mustregister before using the site, after which they may create a
personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications
when theyupdate their profile.Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized
byworkplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends intolists such as
"People From Work" or "Close Friends".Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college
roommates andfellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,
DustinMoskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by thefounders to
Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area,the Ivy League, and Stanford
University. It gradually added support for students at5

various other universities before opening to high school students, and eventually toanyone aged 13 and
over.In May 2005, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and JimBreyer added $1 million of
his own money to the pot.According to a May 2011 Consumer Reports survey, there are
7.5 millionchildren under 13 with accounts and 5 million under 10, violating the site's terms
of service.Facebook is beneficial to one's social life because they can continuously stayin contact with
their friends and relatives, while others say that it can cause increasedantisocial tendencies because
people are not directly communicating with each other.But some argue that Facebook has affected the
social life and activity of people invarious ways. With its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook
allows users tocontinuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they
are in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. It can also unite peoplewith common
interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has beenknown to reunite lost family
members and friends because of the widespread reach of its network.6
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Facebook also continues to prompt debate about users’ behaviors. The effects of online activities on
themselves and their interactions with others have been discussedextensively. In particular, students
are a main class of Facebook users who spend longhours on the social network, which has worried
parents and educational authoritiesabout their academic performance. The students themselves argue
that their presenceon Facebook, as a leisure activity, does not hinder their academic efforts,
thoughsome evidence suggests that their grades decline after they join Facebook.7

V. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

V. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The questions and debates about Facebook usage seem ubiquitous today. Why do people need a
website to socialize? Is Facebook an efficient social capitalization tool? Is the use of Facebook beneficial
for students, or does it simply distract them? Are there negative impacts of the Facebook on students'
behavior and performance? with Facebook, why are some of the students are getting addicted to it?
What's the effect of this social networking site on their grades? What does Facebook bring to the lives of
the students? Why are the students easily hooked to Facebook? How does Facebook affect the life of a
student? What are the pitfalls, students should avoid on Facebook? Is there a possible way for the
students to minimize their time on Facebook?

VII. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATUREA.Local Literature

Social networking sites let individuals to present themselves, and begin or keep connections with others.
The extremely popular social network site for students indifferent levels, Facebook, has already printed
a big impact on their lives. The site can beused towards work-related contexts, romantic relationship
commencement andconnecting those with shared interests. Members may use the site to mingle with
peoplethey already know offline or to find new friends. Facebook permits its users to presentthemselves
in an Internet profile, build up "friends" who can post comments on eachother's walls, and view each
other's page.Facebook associates can also join groups based on common interests, see whatthings they
have in common, and learn each others' hobbies, interests, favorite music, andromantic relationship
status through their pages.But what are behind these facts? What does Facebook bring to the lives of
themembers especially to the students? How does Facebook affect the life of a student?According to
studies, Facebook has an impact to students. Some students areusing it for educational purposes.
Students would like to do some online collaborationwith classmates. It is said that Usfng Facebook
boosts students’ self-esteem even more.11

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They would feel belongingness in the community compared to those who do not haveaccounts. It also
provides news on what are happening in the real world and even in their school campuses. On the
other hand, negative effects flourish. It was found that socialnetworking sites has formed a new kind of
addiction which we called the "social mediaaddiction" and it is quite true in using Facebook. Are you
addicted to Facebook? Somewould say "yes" and some would say "no". It depends on the level of
cravings. But in therecent study, it was found that a lot of students are by now addicted to it, to the
extentthat their school performance is affected."Children who spend much of their time online find it
harder to focus in class andhave short attention span " researchers found through the samples that 7
out of 10teachers believed that their students are becoming obsessed with social media sites suchas
Facebook. Their students tend to study while using Facebook and it shows that theygot 20% lower
grades. Facebook-using students even perform task (projects or assignments) without completion for
the reason that they spend more time scrolling downon their newsfeed to see updates about their
friends and look up for their notificationsrather than finishing their school tasks. Aside that
Facebook affects students’ academic performance; it also has an effect on students’ emotional health.
Yes, students feelconnected to others but study shows that they manifest depression through seeing
their status updates. Some would utilize the site to express what they feel towards their enemyin school
or even outside the campus. They would blurt out through posting status thatwould target their
opponent just to hurt their feelings.With the rampant use of all the social networking sites, students are
coming looseto the real associates. Facebook chats and posts would make them busy nowadays. They12
may be connected to many people but they somehow disconnect with the importantaspects of their
lives and one of those is education. The belief of meeting people face toface seems very odd. Students
prefer to send and receive instant messages or postmessages through Facebook.Many other elements
could be the reason for the inattention in studies of students.But somehow social networks like
Facebook have a negative impact on the education of some students. Facebook could make students
vain for better or for worse and it is the parents' obligation to watch and guide their children to get the
utmost good benefits fromFacebook.

How do Social Networking Sites Affect Students?

Most of the time, students spend their time hanging around the web with the popular social networking
sites. Everyday, more and more people are getting moreattached to Social Networking sites as it is
now moving in as one of the primary means of communication of people.Facebook, Twitter, and
Google+ were only a few of the tons of the sites out therethat caters the need of people. Through Social
Media, people has the chance to combinework and relaxation. However, did you ever encounter the
question. How do Facebook affect your life? And what is your answer?What are the benefits a student
can get by using Social Networking Sites? Hereare some points:13

Get in touch with your loved ones, relatives, and friends

Get to know the latest news and issues

Participate in online discussions

Communicate with your classmates

Be reminded of assignments, projects, and quizzes

Conduct group meetings for group projects and announcements

Get the latest status and messages of your friends through the News FeedObviously, social sites have a
lot of uses for people with their exceptionalfunctionalities. Even without meeting in person, people can
now interact with each other and make a productive gathering. However, despite the fact that Social
Media areextremely helpful, it is still not perfect because there are still some negative points we
canencounter while using it.Some of the bad effects are:

It invades your privacy

It distracts you in everything you do

Too much attachment to it may lead to spending too much time in itwithout doing your tasks14

There are some wrong information released by unauthorized people thatcauses fear The mentioned
good and bad effects were only partial and it also variesdepending on the person involved. Though some
people still makes the best out of SocialMedia, we can’t still forget the negative side of it. Maybe, we
should just ask ourselveson what is our current position in the Social Networking World. The ever-
growingtechnology helps us make our life easier and better but we must be sure that we shouldtreat it
with moderation.

Facebook’s Impact on Student Grades

How does Facebook activity affect a student’s grades? Reynol Junco, a professor atLock Haven
Universityin Pennsylvania, recently set out to determine exactly that.Mr. Junco assembled a sample of
nearly 2,000 college students who self-reporteddetails of their Facebook use: not just total time spent
on the social networking site, butspecific actions taken such as commenting, chatting, uploading photos
or seeing whatothers are doing — “lurking,” as Mr. Junco calls it.The study then stacked its subjects’
overall G.P.A.’s against that Facebook activity. Students’ high school G.P.A.’s — powerful predictors of
college grades — wereincluded in the study as control variables, to establish subjects’ baseline academic
abilityand ensure no dramatic swings in G.P.A. occurred that might belie other factors at play.15
The results of theexperimentwill soon be published in the journal

Computers in Human Behavior

, but The Choice was privy to an early look at the findings:While overall time spent on Facebook
negatively affected G.P.A., the results were notclear-cut. As it turned out, those who frequently shared
links on Facebook or checked thesite to see what friends were up to tended to have higher grades.
Those students who posted status updates tended to have lower grades.Mr. Junco found a direct
relationship between site use and out-of-class sociability:the more time a student spent on Facebook,
the more likely that student was to beinvolved with extracurricular activities.Meanwhile — contradicting
the zero-sum logic of some who might believe that aminute spent social networking is a minute spent
not attending to schoolwork — thestudy found no substantive link between time spent on Facebook and
time spent studying.Mr. Junco said in an e-mail that he was surprised by the fact that the number
of times a student checked Facebook each day was only weakly related to academic performance.“This
tells me that spending an inordinate amount of time on Facebook is relatedto negative outcomes, while
just checking Facebook for a few minutes each time is not,”he wrote.

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ONE THING that listening to really successful people talk does to me is to makeme think how small I am.
People like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have been my heroes for some time and it is not
because they are probably the most influential people in the world, but because of how much they
understand about our world. Theseleaders and innovators are truly inspiring human beings.Watching a
few interviews with the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, I wasdumbfounded by the world he lives
in. It?s really amazing to hear people with so muchinfluence talk to ordinary people about the effects of
their creations and try to bringthemselves down to the level of ordinary people. And it was awesome to
know how muchFacebook has grown these past few years.The last time I checked, Facebook had over
500 million users who go online withactive profiles. I checked how many Christians there are and found
out that they number two billion. So in less than a decade Facebook has managed to get a quarter of
whatChristianity has succeeded in converting to a way of life in 2,000 years. I know you don?tneed a
laptop or a mobile phone to get Christianity, but it?s just amazing how Facebook has spread so
fast.Because of its great influence, Facebook has a lot of critics, and for good reason. No matter how you
look at it, whether it is consensual or not, Facebook is intrusive.Where else do you make available so
many personal preferences, information (includingsensitive ones, addresses, phone numbers, social
games)? Who can blame people if theyget paranoid? People learn so many things about us in just one
page that it is becoming17

alarming. Sometimes it can also be depressing when others dismiss us as just another face.I guess that
not too many Filipinos are aware that Facebook has received so muchcriticism. It is not that I think they
are not aware of what is going on in other countries. Itis more a case of not being able to relate rather
than not knowing or caring enough tolearn about other countries.Facebook has revolutionized the way
we interact with other people by making iteasy for us to connect and share things we like and to read
about and know our friends. Ithas made complex human interaction simpler; it made things that were
already thereeasier. It has simplified how we live our lives.But sometimes, simplicity can be dangerous.
If we live an over-simplified life, wetend to overlook how hard life really is. It is like putting a tiger that is
used to the troublesof the forest in a zoo where everything is provided for it. It is just there to be
viewed. Asimple life.It is not that I don?t approve of where Facebook has taken 500 million lives tothese
past few years; it?s quite the opposite. Through Facebook I was able to reconnectwith so many people I
would otherwise have forgotten. Being on Facebook is a treat thatmost people will cherish for the rest
of their lives. Some people even find the love of their lives on Facebook! All that I am trying to say is that
while it is great to have a toy likeFacebook, let us not forget that everything else is the real thing. At the
end of the day,toys are just toys.18

Facebook Addiction of Filipino students

Facebook has been a big trend to Filipinos especially to students. Facebook hasalready made a huge
impact to people even if it just been known to the Philippines for thelast two years. It is now the leading
social network site in terms of popularity and activeusers.Through a status message in my Facebook
account, I was able to discover a girlwho has been a Facebook addict since she started using it. She is
Marjorie Ditan, a 20-years-old student of La Salle College Antipolo. She is taking-up AB
MassCommunication, Major in TV Journalism and is already in her fourth year.She is my classmate’s
sister. She looks like a Japanese girl who has a gentle personality. She has fair and smooth skin. She is
not a tall girl but can project herself as amodel.She has a lot of hobbies. She likes reading books, writing
short stories or poems,watching television, customizing clothes but spend most of her time in using
theFacebook site.Marjorie started using Facebook since March 2008. She already had been using itfor
almost two years and five months. She opens her Facebook account depending on her time schedule.
During Mondays, Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays, she uses FB between1 p.m. to 11 p.m., since she has
no classes or sometimes just spend half day to her school.Then during Wednesday and Friday, her
account is active between 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. only because her classes start at 3:30 p.m. And on Saturdays,
she spends her day on FB during7 p.m. to 11 p.m.19

“The minimum hours I spend in Facebook site during no classes is 10 hours, andthe maximum is 17
hours. I can sometimes spend time in Facebook until 2 a.m., but Idon’t stay awake during unholy hour,
because it freaks me out.” Marjorie said.Marjorie Ditan is a college student who likes spending most of
her time in her Facebook account since the very first time she has known the site. She has benefited a
lotfrom the site and has been already her routine that she cannot go a day with, withoutopening her
account. She has been a Facebook addict for the past two years but has notmade a huge effect to her
studies and to her social life.“Facebook really gets me because I can flush out my feelings. But it
doesn’treally affect my studies because I am well disciplined and while my Facebook account isopen, I
do tons of projects and even loads of home works.”She already has 200 friends in her site. Marjorie only
accepts and adds friendswho is she familiar with. But even with the help of the site for communication,
she domore than a talk on FB, she still prefers to live among people and socialize with themface to face
than in social networks.She likes spending time with her family but also do this with some activeness
inher FB account. But still, she doesn’t let this social network to weaken her relationshipwith her family,
friends and herself.In her FB profile, she usually posts things like skin care, fitness, hair care andother
guides or suggestions concerning a person’s health and hygiene. She also uses her account to sell stuffs
like bags, accessories and clothes. FB has already been her partner in business. She also like posting
suggestions on what clothes to wear, foods that benefits20

the body and mind, opinions on how to deal with relationships in a family, friends or lover and topics
that focuses more on communication and psychological matters. Her statuses are all about relationships
and friendships. She always wants to make sense withwhat she posts.FOOPETS APPLICATION is one of
her favorite game application in FB that sheis so addicted and loyal to.She is a certified Facebook addict
but she never lets her FB addiction gets her personal social life and ruin her studies. She knows how to
balance things and FB is justher hobby when she feels bored or don’t have anything to do.This proves
that even if FB has been a very well known site to Filipino students, itdoesn’t mean that it will already
serve as our social interaction among people. Facebook is still just internet operated and personal
interaction and real relationships are way better than network conversation and relationships. And
addiction to any social network is anormal thing to student to help in stress relieves but should not be
the cause of any personal distraction in a person’s life.“Facebook is just a social network!” she said, as
her final words as we ended our interview.
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the country's population and 93.66% in relation tonumber of Internet users. The total number of FB
users in Philippines isreaching 30265200 and grew by more than 1707080 in the last 6
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lower FB penetration thanMartinique

Much has been said about the Philippines being among the top social mediacountries in the world. And
all of that is richly deserved. It is indeed a social andhyperconnected world and the statistics bear this
out.The latest data fromSocialBakersshows that almost one out of every 4 Filipinoshas a Facebook
account. As of this writing, there are 27,720,300 Facebook users in thePhilippines. That’s about 27.75%
of the population and 93.33% of the online population

Ranked 8th in the world among Facebook countries, about 1,226,960 Facebook users were added over
the past 6 months. Breaking it down even further, that’s about204,493 Facebook users a month or 6,816
users added a day.25

For the Math lovers out there, that equates to 284 users being added every hour or 4.7 users added
every minute.Globally, SocialBakers reports close to 834 million Facebook users with Europe, North
America and Asia almost equally split, with about 25% each of the total Facebook population.26
Young and mostly female

Of the Philippine Facebook population, 39% of users are 18-24 years old and 24%are 25-34 years old.
Combined, this accounts for 63% of the total Facebook population.52% of all Filipino Facebook users are
female which is consistent with the global profileof Facebook.The biggest growth in Facebook use also
came from these two demographics.What is interesting is the decline in growth in the 13-15
demographic. One wonders if this is a portent of things to come about the younger generation and their
interest, or lack of interest in, Facebook.27

What could this new wave be about?While the number of users is an interesting metric to look at, what
will be evenmore revealing is the number of active accounts. And still even more revealing is thenumber
of active conversations on Facebook and what it (Facebook) is being used for.

B.C.Foreign Literature

Is Facebook Good Or Bad For Students? Debate Roils On

Does Facebook have a positive or negative effect on students? Oh, if only theissue were so clear-
cut!Most recently, OnlineEducation.net, an online database designed to informcurrent and prospective
students about education opportunities in the U.S., compiled amound of research data on college
students and their use of social media.28

On analyzing it, the group could only conclude that the results were inconclusiveand mixed. Thus, the
debate roils on.Key survey findings include:96 percent of college students use Facebook;Grades of
students who checked Facebook while studying were 20% lower thangrades of those who didn’t check
Facebook while studying;79 percent of students did not believe that multitasking in the way
mentionedabove negatively affected their grades;20 percent of students that use social media reported
feeling connected to their institution;75 percent of college students reported wanting to collaborate
online. None of this is earth-shattering. If a student in the throes of cramming for finals isdistracted
every few minutes by the urge to check Facebook status updates involvingfriends’ day-to-day dating
sagas and roommate skirmishes, it only makes sense that thestudent will be less engaged in learning,
absorb less knowledge and likely score lower onthe big test.Yet, the same results might be seen for
students who get up every few minutes tograb a snack, watch TV or incessantly pick up the phone to
text or call friends whilestudying.However, if the student is using Facebook to propel his or her
knowledge, for example, by participating in a Facebook group created by a professor for students of
a particular class, than the social network may have a positive influence on education andspark the
student’s interest in learning certain subject matter.29

For instance, in such a space professors and students can participate in the sharingof knowledge, by
posting articles (and responses to them), speaker events, lectures and personal experiences involving
topics related to the course. When this happens, Facebook can be a boon to education, actively
engaging students in the pursuit of knowledge. Yet,as AllFacebook recently reported, teachers are
increasingly discouraged (for good reason)from accepting students’ friend requests.An important
benefit seen in the statistics above is the ability of Facebook tomake college students feel socially
connected, with a greater sense of community. Thiscan be beneficial in boosting students’ self-esteem.
Past studies have shown that studentswho are active on Facebook are more likely to participate in extra-
curricular activities.But, as we have also seen in the news, social media can also have a negativeeffect on
emotional health when abused by cyberbullies who harass and torment peers.Also, as AllFacebook
reported, one study found that students with the mostfriends on Facebook feel more health-harming
stress. Thus, students should be warned tonot put too much stock in the social network. At the end of
the day, students, as all people, of course, are more than the sum of their social network.Ultimately, like
with anything, how social media affects students may come downto how it is used and the frequency
with which it is used.

For Students, What Is the "Facebook Effect" on Grades?

Social media has several effects on academic work — some more positive thanothers. But what is social
networking's overall impact on college students' performance?30

According to data gathered from several sources by OnlineEducation.net,Facebook and Twitter are used
to great benefit — sometimes. Students welcome onlineengagement and resources; around 75% of
student respondents said they'd like to dosome online collaboration for class, in fact.Also, social media
may have a positive impact on students' sense of themselves inthe community. Social media-using
students were twice as likely as other students to feelwell-liked by their peers and to participate in
extracurricular activities. And 20% more of Facebook-using students (as compared to students who
didn't use Facebook) said theyfelt connected to their school and community.However, negative effects
abound. Students who use Facebook and hit the bookssimultaneously found their multitasking led to
20% lower grades than those of their morefocused peers. Facebook-using students also made less
money during school from part-time work, putting in around five hours per week as opposed to 16
hours per week for atypical, unplugged counterpart. Not only do grades and finances suffer, but
students might actually end up feelingmore depressed or lonely. Almost half of students believe they
are sadder than their friends on Facebook, and 25% of college students have shown signs of severe
depressionin their status updates at one time or another.In a word, the results are inconclusive. But
with around 96% of all collegestudents on Facebook, only the most dedicated academics would consider
giving upsocial media for a slightly better GPA.31
In the comments, we'd like to know what impact social media had or has on your academic work. And if
your college career pre-dates social media, how do you think college is better or worse because of
Facebook?

Studies show effects of Facebook on GPA

During the intensive studying and last minute cram sessions of finals week,students often blame
Facebook for interfering in their study efforts and fueling procrastination.While Facebook might not
be helpful when it comes to studying, it doesn’t meanstudents’ grades have to suffer. According to
a recent study, some types of Facebook useactually correlate with higher grade point
averages.Published in Computers in Human Behavior, the study analyzed 1,839 collegestudents’ grades
and Facebook usage.These students reported spending an average of 106 minutes each day
onFacebook. How those 106 minutes of time on Facebook were spent determines the kindof impact
Facebook has on the student, according to the study.Engaging in activities that involve collecting and
sharing information, such assharing informative links, proved to have a positive impact on students’
GPAs. Postingfrequent status updates and using Facebook chat, however, were determined to
negativelyaffect GPA.This distinction is one that can also be seen offline and around campus.“Those
students who spend more time socializing to the exclusion of engaging inacademic work have poor
academic outcomes,” the study said.32

At the same time, those who post links and use Facebook to communicate usefulinformation are more
likely to be engaged with the outside environment and in theclassroom, the study said.Penn State
Learning Community Associate, Leagh Anderson said that the impacton GPA could also depend on when
the students are accessing Facebook. Those who arefrequently updating their statuses are often those
who are on Facebook intermittentlythroughout the day.This intermittent and frequent checking
of Facebook can interfere with the timeneeded to digest and absorb course material, Anderson
said.Students Greg Brulo and Amy Niedbala both reported spending up to two hourseach day on
Facebook. Niedbala said that it sometimes interferes with her studying, butthey both agreed that it does
not have any sort of negative impact on their grades.“I use Facebook to take a break so I don’t get
mentally drained while studying,”Brulo said. “My time management has a stronger correlation to my
grades thanFacebook.

In the Facebook Era, Students Tell You Everything

The impact of Facebook on the college classroom goes far beyond technologicalinnovations and the
ability to build relationships. It has led young people to publiclyannounce intimate personal details
without thought of the consequences. And that style of communication has led to some very
uncomfortable encounters between students andtheir professors.33
The first time it happened to me, the student's words came so quickly that I didn'thave time to think
about my reaction. A young woman approached me in the hall with asmile on her face, and said, "I
won't be in class next week because I have to terminate a pregnancy."I was dumbfounded. How could
someone share something so private in a publicsetting with a professor she barely knew? She had been
in my class for only six weeks,and we hadn't really established much of a relationship, so I had no idea
how to respond.Was she looking for help? Or should I simply treat it like any other notification of
anabsence?That incident was one of what has become a series of encounters with studentswho are so
used to social media that they now openly share what was formerlyconsidered private. Posting and
tweeting intimate life details are now so normal for themthat they think nothing of cavalierly giving too
much information to surprised professors.Lest any reader doubt the stories I'm about to tell, let me
assure you they allhappened as I describe over the past few years. The only facts I've changed are the
namesof the students involved.Allison walked into my classroom apologizing for missing two weeks of
classes by saying she had been in rehab for alcoholism. Stan's excuse, stated in front of the class,was
that drugs he was taking for a psychological disorder had caused him to oversleep.Greg said he didn't
have his assignment done because he had to go to court after beingarrested for punching a guy in a bar
fight. Carly texted me that she couldn't make it toclass that day because she was in the hospital after
having a miscarriage.34

A new advisee, Amy, was in tears as she asked if she could shut my office door. Itwas her first semester,
and she had always had a bright smile on her face in theclassroom. But in my office, she told me her
grades were suffering because she washaving an affair with a local married TV reporter.Such intimate
details used to be considered too embarrassing to share. But withFacebook and Twitter, young people
think nothing of confiding in strangers. Often theless the students know the person they are
communicating with the more willing they areto spill. And they do it bluntly, now that they are used to
summarizing life in 140characters.Oversharing creates more than a few mixed feelings in the hearts of
academics.We know that asking students an innocent question, making a supportive comment, or giving
a comforting hug could all be easily misconstrued. It's difficult to know how toreact, especially when
students announce sensitive circumstances in the classroom.Bill told a room full of students that he was
tired every Wednesday morning because he was gambling every Tuesday night and was probably an
addict. Becky choked back tears trying to answer a simple textbook question and then apologized,
saying her boyfriend had just broken off their engagement a few hours earlier. Normally chipper Elliot
told the class he was depressed because of struggles with his live-in boyfriend. Oneof my student-radio
DJ's got on the air and announced that over vacation he had received psychiatric treatment for his
bipolar disorder, detailing how he needed help after attacking a female shopper at a store where he was
the assistant manager!35

Even personal hygiene has become classroom fodder. Kurt announced at the startof one period that he
might miss the next meeting because he was seeing a doctor about a blocked bowel. Jacob and Carol
were platonic roommates but complained in my classabout each other's gross bathroom habits.It has
become normal to hear students proclaim that they have no interest in ever having children, but one
senior added that he planned to get a vasectomy as a graduationgift. I even had a student confess that
he paid a prostitute to help him get his mind off being stressed about midterm assignments.Most
surprising are the athletes who publicly brag about breaking rules that couldcause them to lose eligibility
for their scholarships. An underage football player complained as I handed him a test that he had been
up all night getting drunk withteammates. A runner said that he was unable to complete an assignment
after winning ameet and spending the night drinking in celebration.The most baffling aspect for a faculty
member to adjust to is that the same young people who now tell you everything have conversely
become much more sensitive aboutwhat you say to them. An instructor may make an innocent
comment, often in response towhat is perceived to be open communication, only to have the student
take offense.A young woman who spent her entire final semester telling my class about her forthcoming
marriage suddenly froze when I asked her one day how the wedding planswere going. I didn't know that
her fiancé had recently called it off, and she burst into tearsin front of the class. She had changed her
status on Facebook and posted numerous publicmessages about it.36

In another course, during the first-day icebreakers, students randomly picked outquestions from a bowl
about things like their hometowns or favorite restaurants. Onestudent, whom I knew from his
constant talking in other courses, refused to answer whenhis turn came and he was asked how many
kids he wanted. He said that question was "too personal." Normally gregarious students may turn silent
when asked about things thatused to be considered innocuous, like family background or colleges they
previouslyattended.One guy who openly talked nonstop about his 2-year-old boy got upset one
day before class when I asked how the child was. He gave me a serious look and said, "Don'tever
mention my son again." I was stunned and apologized to the student afterward, atwhich time he
revealed he was in a new custody battle with the boy's mother after shemoved out of town.I've learned
that while Twitter-addicted young adults usually have no problemsharing too much information with
strangers, it has to be at their own initiative. Theythink nothing of sending out personal messages that
would make many of us blush butthen turn around to perceive seemingly innocuous questions or
comments from facultymembers as "judgmental" or "disrespectful."In this Facebook age, young people
expect everyone to be a "friend" who iswilling to accept whatever they "post." As a natural reactor who
likes to respond to whatstudents say, I have learned it is important to hold my tongue and show no
expressionduring their startling revelations. I may want to drop my jaw and scream "Why are youtelling
this to strangers?," but I must remain neutral and act like whatever they say istotally normal.37

That's how I responded after a student submitted a video assignment on his flashdrive because he
had difficulties getting it to me online. He just handed me the drive touse for grading his project, but
when I later inserted it into my laptop there were no titleson the numbered files. So I clicked on the first
file.The dark, grainy footage showed the head of a girl performing fellatio on mystudent in the front seat
of a car. That obviously wasn't the class project.I opened a second file, and they were both naked. I
eventually located the correctvideo to grade but was amazed that he gave me a drive with such intimate
material. WhenI handed the flash drive back to him at the start of the next class period, I didn't
make acomment and kept my facial expression neutral. I had learned that no matter whatstudents share
in this Facebook era, sometimes it's wisest not to comment on their status.Stephen Winzenburg is a
professor of communication at Grand View Universityin Des Moines and author of The Communication
Job Search Handbook and TVProgramming Perspectives.

The Negative Effects of Facebook

As many people know Facebook is one of the largest social networks in the worldtoday. Facebook is
helping people connect with their friends, and relatives from all over the world. It makes human
begin life much easier. However, since Facebook is gettingwell-known, bad things start to take
place. There are two effects that I want to talk aboutFacebook Has a Negative Impact on the
Concentration of Students, about 70-75 percent of high school students are falling behind in class
because they spend many hours38

on Facebook. Therefore, it leads to lack of time to studying or concentration on schoolwork. Therefore,

the percentage of student repeating the class is higher every year.Students watch adult movie on
Facebook- As Facebook becomes popular , thereare more users uploading a lot of music videos that was
over 18. The problem is that onFacebook there are many middle school students around 8-9 years old
always playingaround, so the chance that they would watch adult videos is very high. Furthermore,
thereare many users posting photos of their body and putting its up there so it make affect thelittle kids
who always playing around on the siteIn my opinion, Facebook has become a place where you can
watch any moviesand do not have to consider age. So I strongly believe that parents should do
something tokeep their kids from watching or learning what they are not supposed to. Facebook willnot
do anything about it because if they do not allow the customer to posting videos or photos they will
lose profit. It is very hard to keep track since there are million of userson Facebook. So it is in the
parents hands now.

Facebook’s Side Effects

Around the world, billions of brightly lit computer screens reflect a blue tint ontheir masters as the
iconic ‘f’ takes over the screen. With games, friends, and easy sharingfrom nearly every website about
nearly everything, Facebook is an internet giant that hasa fierce grip on quite possibly the whole World
Wide Web, or at least its users.The social media giant adds a positive spin on teen’s lives but also adds
morestress, “A lot of it is negative like wasting time when you could be doing homework,”said senior
Giovanni Cerutti.39

As homework stacks up, the stress doubles for most students, which makes themwant to escape. Where
they go, ironically enough is back onto Facebook, causing avicious cycle.Positively, though, students can
find Facebook to be a useful tool. “I talk tofriends mostly I go on very rarely but when I do, I talk
to friends because I don’t have a phone,” said sophomore Chris McCarter.The site can be especially
handy when a student misses an assignment and needsto make it up quickly. With their web of peers on
hand the student can usually find afellow classmate to help. Others use it to track various other interests
or hobbies such as photography, skateboarding, or music.“The best things about Facebook are being
able to show your friends things like pictures and/or videos. Another good thing is the ability to be able
to ‘follow’ your favorite bands and knowing when they’re touring,” Cerutti said.Facebook sometimes
isn’t the true issue but its users and what’s going on whenteachers are away. “[The] worst is probably
like, people can legitimately stalk you nomatter how private you set your profile, people from all around
the world can still viewyour profile somehow through others,” said senior Brittany Eastman,Alongside
the threat of cyber bullying, Facebook sometimes doesn’t hold up a bright image amongst students.
Drama that is left at a standstill at school multipliesonline with the power of anonymity, without the
responsibility of facing the personyou’re insulting, bullying becomes increasingly severe.“I have been
cyber bullied as well as seen it. They were attacking me for dancingwith someone’s ex, eventually I just
blocked them” said Eastman.40

What doesn’t seem very harmful can bring a person to the brink. Conflicts atschool can continue and
exponentially grow to the point where some attacks can pushvictims harm themselves. From this the
harm will grow to attempting and sometimessucceeding in ending their own lives.Facebook has the pros
and cons of any website, if it’s positive or not is purely upto the users and how they use it either as a
tool, a weapon, or a time waster. Studentsshould always caution themselves with what they allow to be
published on the site andremember that a screen won’t always hide your identity.

What Facebook Does to Kids' Brains

People love to sensationalize the deleterious effects of new-fangled tech on theimpressionable brains of
children. Psychologist Larry D. Rosen's presentationto theAmerican Psychological Association is a little
more nuanced than "Facebook Rots Kids'Brains," but it still has plenty to be concerned about. (His title:
"“Poke Me: How Social Networks Can Both Help and Harm Our Kids.")Facebook is only seven years old
and has only been open to non-college studentsfor five years (kids under 13 are not officially allowed to
join), so researchers have nothad much time to study the emotional, physical, and psychological effects
it could haveon kids. But science has proven at least one thing: Facebook does something to
some people's brains, probably.

The good

Kids who spend more time on Facebook learn to show "virtual empathy"to their friends online,

For less social kids, Facebooking can help these teens learn to socialize,explains Rosen.
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When making friends on the social network, kids are more likely tooverlook race and make friends based
on interest, a UCLA studyfound.

Facebook can improve the self-esteem of college students,according toaCornell study.

Silly status updates can help breed desirable traits like entrepreneurship, areport from the National IT
Center claimed.

Facebook raises kids' self-esteem.

The bad

Facebook breeds narcissism.

While it alsolowers kids' self-esteem.

Young adults who have a strong Facebook presence show more signs of other psychological disorders
and are more susceptible to future health problem, foundRosen.

Facebook doesn't prepare kids for real-life talking.

The social network makes kids depressed,foundan American Academy of Pediatrics study.

It'saddictive.

It'sdistracting.In other words, it's kind of like middle school.42

10 Adverse Effects Facebook For Students

Facebook negative impact on teenagers, students and children. Facebook negativeimpact is increasingly
felt, even though the Facebookers many are not aware of theinfluence of negati facebook.Perhaps
because the name is already addicted to facebook. But it is precisely thisthat is dangerous, which is not
realized.Okay, for you the youth and students as well as children, you must know what thenegative
impact of this facebook. Because of facebook users is dominated by the 14-24year olds as much as
61.1%.1. No matter with the surroundingPeople who are addicted to facebook too preoccupied with his
own world (theworld which he created) that does not care about other people and the
environmentaround it. Someone who has been addicted to facebook often experience this. No
matter with their surroundings, their world turned into a world of facebook. Some say autism.2. Lack of
socialization with the environmentThis impact of too frequent and too old to play facebook. It's quite
alarming for the development of the social life of the child. They are supposed to learn socializationwith
the environment even more to spend more time in cyberspace with friends whoaverage facebooknya
discuss something that is not important. As a result the child'sverbal abilities declined. Of course autism
is here not in the literal sense.3. Wasting money43

Internet access to open facebook obviously affect the financial condition(especially if access from the
cafe). And the cost of the Internet in Indonesia is likely tostill expensive when compared to other
countries (and even many free ones). This could be categorized as waste, because it is not productive.
Another matter if they use it for business purposes.4. Distemper Too much sitting in front of the
monitor without doing any activity, sport hasnever really pose a risk to health. Disease will be easy to
come. Late irregular eating andsleeping. Obesity (overweight), stomach diseases (gastrointestinal), and
eye disease arehealth problems most likely to occur.5. Reduced learning timeIt is obvious, too old to
play facebook will reduce the allotted time to study thechild as a learner. There are even some who are
still busy playing facebook while atschool.6. Lack of attention to familyThe family home is number one.
The slogan is no longer valid for theFacebookers. Make their friends on facebook is number one. Not
infrequently their attention to the family to be reduced.7. The spread of personal dataSome
Facebookers provide data about the data itself with great detail. Usually thisis for people who know the
Internet was limited to only facebook. They do not know therisk is to spread personal data on the
internet. Remember the data is easy once the data onthe internet is leaking, let alone facebook easily
hacked!44
8. Easily find something pornography It was easy for the Facebookers find something that smells of
porn. Because thetwo things are the most widely searched on the internet and also the easiest to find.
nah,it's a fact not adult intenet users of Indonesia. Just use the Internet to search for content"slimy". On
facebook would be very easy to find the group ***, group lonely aunt, etc bispak girl group.9. Prone to
the disputeThe lack of control of managers facebook against its members and immaturityfacebook users
themselves create friction between Facebookers often occur. The most phenomenal example is the case
"Evan Brimob" some time ago. Evan Brimob is a newmember of the police who know facebook. Please
search on google about Evan Brimobwrote with a statement that the controversy: "The police do not
need society".10. Beware of scams!Like other media media, facebook also vulnerable to fraud.
Especially for children who do not understand the ins and outs of the internet. For the
fraudster themselves, the virtual world conditions that completely anonymous obviously very profitable.

Facebook Effects on Students

I've been a Facebook member for about five years now. I was fourteen when Ifirst created my profile,
and I must admit, like many of my peers and friends, I've becomean avid user. I've always had an
interest in the newest social medias. As a sophomorenow in college, I find myself using Facebook while
doing homework, in class, or just45

when I'm bored. Facebook has several uses, to me. I use it to create groups for projects,events, etc.,
communicate with friends and family, or to find out the latest events inMiami. I for one am not against
Facebook. Do I think it can become a distraction for academic excellence like most people say?
Absolutely!With that being said, I recently read an article called "Impact of Facebook Usageon Students'
Academic Achievement: Role of Self-Regulation and Trust" written by SanaRouis, Moez Limayem, and
Esmail Saleni-Sangan. In the article, they talk about theextended amount of time that students are
spending on Facebook. Although manystudents agree that Facebook is both time consuming and
distracting, they still continueto use it on a daily basis. The average student spends 30-35 minutes,
however somestudents spend up to eight hours a day. The main concern here is that with these
longhours, students may possibly be decreasing their academic performance and jeopardizingtheir
grades.During the long hours that these students spend on Facebook, they are not onlydistracting
themselves, but they are focusing their productivity on Facebook posts andvideos, rather than preparing
for homework, tests, etc. This leads to poor results and adecrease in overall global achievement. The
article also factors in self-regulation andcognitive absorption. They hypothesized that students who
practice self-regulation, setgoals for themselves, therefore they practice less usage of online
activity. Cognitiveabsorption refers to how captivated the students are in the tasks they are
performingonline. The more they are immersed in these tasks, the less concentration they use onother
tasks. They hypothesized that a high level of cognitive immersion on Facebook 46
decreases the students academic achievements, and the higher level of cognitive absorption in
Facebook increases the student's time on the website. Although the usage on Facebook depends on the
personality and overall goals of the student, I feel as if these facts in general are accurate. Every student
knows that Facebook is distracting, a social media used when procrastinating, and takes up a lot of time.
However, if students, myself included, know this then why do they continue to use it? I am guilty of
saying these things as well, yet I have my Facebook open in the tab next to this one. I think the problem
here is not Facebook, it's the motivation that some students lack. This generation is so attached to social
networks, cell phones, and technology in general that I think they are afraid that in the thirty minutes it
takes to do an assignment that they will miss out on something in their social life. As technology
continues to develop, it is my job, as a future educator, to teach students to set personal goals for
themselves, so they can be the students that will spend less time on social media and more time being
productive.47

VIII. SUMMARY

Facebook has become an addiction for many. Instead of students concentrating on their homework or
studying for a big test the next day, they are spending hours looking through pictures, answering their
page comments, and chatting with friends on the site’s instant messenger. Facebook has consumed
good grades and face-to-face communication is in jeopardy .Even students who are active users
of Facebook indicate some concerns about the long hours they spend surfing the site. However, other
students consider their time spend on Facebook valuable, because it enables them to exchange news
with friends and family ,learn about others’ activities, and have fun with various activities. They also
regard their Facebook breaks as a means to renew their energy so that they can perform better on
their subsequent tasks. Students who use Facebook and hit the books simultaneously found
their multitasking led to lower grades than those of their more focused peers. Facebook-using students
also made less money during school from part-time work, putting in around five hours per week as
opposed to 16 hours per week for a typical, unplugged counterpart.48

Not only do grades and finances suffer, but students might actually end up feeling more depressed or
lonely. Almost half of students believe they are sadder than their friends on Facebook, and some
students have shown signs of severe depression in their status updates at one time or another.49

IX. CONCLUSION Usage of Facebook is overwhelming, we get in touch with our loved ones ,relatives,
and friends. We get to know the latest news and issues, we can participate in an online discussions and
many more. Facebook is also an efficient social capitalization tool .It let every single individuals to
present themselves, and begin or keep connections with others. Facebook associates can also join
groups based on common interests, see what things they have in common, and learn each others'
hobbies, interests, favorite music, and romantic relationship status through their pages. Few of the side
effects of Facebook adversely affects on a students' behavior and performance, one of the biggest effect
is too much time on the internet. Another dramatic changed seen in students behavior is that they will
not spent the required time on studies as they are asked to, brag about the position and level that they
are on the games online, how many friends are their as their partners, scores, records etc. Students who
have not achieved these positions on online games will now also join in adding to the adverse effects of
Facebook. Facebook also has a large impact to students. Some students are using it for educational
purposes. Students would like to do some online collaboration with50

classmates. It is said that using Facebook boosts students’ self-esteem even more. They would feel
belongingness in the community compared to those who do not have accounts. It also provides news on
what are happening in the real world and even in their school .On the other hand, negative effects
flourish. It was found that social networking sites has formed a new kind of addiction which we called
the "social media addiction" and it is quite true in using Facebook. Students who spend much of their
time online find it harder to focus in class and have short attention span. Students are becoming
obsessed with social media sites such as Facebook. Instead of studying, they go using Facebook that's
why they got 20% lower grades. Facebook-using students even perform task (projects or assignments)
without completion for the reason that they spend more time scrolling down on their newsfeed to see
updates about their friends and look up for their notifications rather than finishing their school tasks.
Aside that Facebook affects students’ academic performance; it also has an effect on students’
emotional health. Yes, students feel connected to others but study but somehow they manifest
depression through seeing their status updates. Some would utilize the site to express what they feel
towards their enemy in school or even outside the campus. They would blurt out through posting status
that would target their opponent just to hurt their feelings.51

X. RECOMMENDATION

Time management, commitment and focus as the attitude help student decrease the negative effect of
Facebook. I recommend some ways in which students can avoid Facebook successfully or at least
minimize the amount of time that they spend on Facebook; Avoid Facebook Requests: Every day we get
several requests through Facebook. These include requests for friendship from strangers, requests for
filling up surveys, or even requests to play some game. Make it a policy to ignore all requests in
Facebook. Only confirm friends whom you know outside of Facebook. Ignore game requests no matter
how interesting it may sound. At the end of the day, playing a video game or a Facebook game is an
addictive pastime and a serious waste of time. Most often, the apps and games in Facebook are
designed to send mass requests to all friends in one’s friends list. Therefore, you need not feel upset
about saying ‘no’ to these requests. In fact, if you are very keen on minimizing Facebook time, then you
may even want to block friends who are prolific game players on Facebook and are constantly
bombarding you withrequests.52
Manage Notifications: One of the simple steps that you can take to minimize Facebook time wasters is
to set your account settings in such a way that you do not receive notification emails for every activity in
Facebook. Switch off the notification emails in your account settings. You can also filter out the emails
from Facebook in your email client as well. You can always keep yourselves updated by checking the
notifications when you log in into Facebook. That way, you decide on when you want to use Facebook
and it is not governed by the frequency in which your friends update their status messages. Say ‘no’ to
apps and games: This is the biggest time waster in Facebook and you have to be firm in avoiding these in
Facebook apps and games. Facebook was designed for friends to keep in touch with each other. Games
should be played not virtually but in the real world. If you like playing games, why not choose a sport
that you like and try to practice it. This will help you to avoid Facebook games and at the same time help
you in enjoying games as well. Be offline in chat: Facebook chat is another area where you end up
wasting far more time than you originally intended. Make sure that you remain offline in chat while you
are logged in into Facebook. This way you can minimize chat requests from friends through Facebook. If
you want to talk to your friends call them up instead of chatting on Facebook. This way you will be able
to control the amount of time that you spend on Facebook