Social Networking

Social Networking

Submitted to: Ms.Asma Sheraz

Submitted by: Sumaira Farooq Urwa Waheed Mamoona Tariq

Bahauddin Zakariya University Lahore campus

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HYPOTHESIS: Positive impact of social networking on student academic performance

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of social networking sites On students academic performance. A sample of sixty students M=30 (Male), F=30(Female) were included in the survey research. Survey method used to collected data in this study. It is predicted that social networking has many positive impact on student academic performance. Result show that majority of student are in favour of social networking sties.

Keyword: social networking, student performance, impact networking sites.

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Introduction
Social networking sites are defined as web based-services that permit their user to create a public or private profile with a guarded systems, develop a list of others users with whom they share and their information and examine the list of connection made by the people with whom they have shared their data. Social networking sites include worldwide website such as Facebook, My-space, YouTube, Yahoo, and Twitter among several others. Research on college student has indicated a number of different outcomes associated with particular types of college students experiment (e.g. contact with professors, students attitude, motivation and activities) and difference among types of institutes and sub-group of students. However, sending time in reading is one important dimension for college students. That has not been studied extensively and little empirical evidence has been gathered about college students reading practices have been either inconsistence or limited. This study is being conducted to tackle the issue of impact of social networking on students. The first question that arises in this study is: This research is conducted for spreading out the previous study discover the relationship between the impact of social network and students study condition and to check if social network is interfering with academic performance of students. Social networking has now become a global phenomenon and is being used widely by teenagers around the world out of students time spent on the internet 25% is now spent on social networking websites, facbook by college students followed by YouTube and twitter etc. Students spend roughly 100 minutes daily on facebook. In 2007, 92% of college students have an amount on facebook. By 2008, 99% of students had an account. Here are some benefits of social networking sites: Social networking sites allow college students to accomplish many of their academic tasks with efficacy. These sites allow teenagers to study connected with friends and family make new friend, share major life events and pictures and exchange creative ideas. Interacting with people creates ones own self-image and unique social skills. There may be enhanced learning opportunities for students of middle and high school. Students who may be reluctant to speak up in class are participating in live book discussion blogs and facebook.
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Social Networking The purpose of the study is to investigate impact of social networking and how spend time on both conventional and academic and recreational activities. To meet the above mentioned research gap. This study is designed to investigate among the classification of students in time spend on academic and recreational activities and how the advent of online network sites has influenced students reading practice. Facebook is one of the most identifiable online social networks for students because of its popularity among students.Relevance to students rely on facebook and social networking to connect with friends, family and classmate to enhance information, chat, or just see what one another is currently doing.

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Social Networking Literature Review The increase use of social networking websites has become an international phenomenon in the past several years. What started out as a hobby for some computer literate people has become a social norm and way of life for people from all over the world (Boyd, 2007). Teenagers and young adults have especially embraced these sites as a way to connect with their peers, share information, reinvent their personalities, and show case their social lives (Boyd, 2007).With the increase of technology used for communicating with others and the popularity of the internet, Social Networking has become an activity that is done primarily on the internet, with sites like MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster and Xanga ( Coyle et al., 2008). Many people actively participate in content generation and value creation, and several researchers (e.g., Younget al., 2009; Vasalou et al., 2010) have examined their profiles to determine why and to what extent they are keen on posting their entire identity, sharing pictures and videos, and indicating their religious affiliations, material status, and political orientations on the internet. These users interact with others, exchange information about their interests, raise discussions about new topics, follows news about specific topics on different Social Networking Sites. Teenagers now use the internet for the majority their daily activities and information gathering, as opposed toddler generations who used recourses like the television or newspaper (Lewish, 2008). A recent survey showed that approximately ninety percent of teens in United States have internet access, and about seventy-five of these teens use the Internet more than once per day (Kist, 2008). This study also showed that approximately half of all teens who have internet access are also members of social networking sites, and use the internet to make plans and socialize with friends (Kist, 2008). In September, 2005, out of total adult internet users (1829 years) 16% were those who were using any social networking site nad this percentage increased to 86% on may 2010 ( www.marketingcharts.com). Tuckman (1975) defined performance as the apparent demonstration of understanding, concepts, skills, ideas and knowledge of a persona and proposed that grades clearly depict the performance of a student. Hence, their academic performance must be managed efficiently keeping in view all the factors that can positively or negatively affect their education performance. Use of technology such as internet is one of the most important factors that can influence educational performance of students positively and adversely.
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Social Networking Shah et al. (2001) proposed that student users are affected by the internet and this impact is determined by the type of internet usage. They are positively affected by the informative use of internet while having drastic impact of recreational use of internet on them. Oskouei (2010) proposed that internet is advantageous to both students and teachers if used as a tool of knowledge creation and dissemination. Several studies have been done regarding social networking and grades. White more School of business and economic recently conducted a survey of over 1,000 students. They asked questions regarding which social networking sites were used, how much time they spent on a site, what their grade point average (GPA).

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Objective of the Study: Does the spending time on social networking sites strengths the academic performance of students. The relationship social network and students academic performance. Does online social networking have an impact on students achievement. We define social networking sties as web based services that allow individual to (1) construct a public or semi public within a bounded system (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection and (3) view and traverse their list of connection and those made by others within the system.

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Methodology
In this research , first of all we design a questionnaire containing sixteen question .Then filled the questionnaire from the student of Bahauddin Zakariya university sixty

participants (30=M, 30=F). Female easily filled the questionnaire gave their opinion but male put so many questions. We use survey method for collecting data. We randomly select the participants who filled the questionnaire. Then we use statistic for finding and result making process .eighty percent (80%) participants are agree that they are using social networking more frequently and (78%) agree that social networking helpful in their studies. We define age ,gender and education in the demographic variable. The research methodology which is used in this research is quantitative. Quantitative research gathered data in numerical form which can be put into categories or in rank order or measures in unit of measurements. This type of data can be used to construct graphs or table of raw data. The population of this research was of those students who were aware from social networking. The population of this research provided answers according to their own will. The participants were of Bachelor and Master Students and the age group is 17-20 and 21-24 define in demographic variable. The result shows that social networking has many positive impacts on students studies. Majority of participants are in favour of the use of social networking sties.

Demographic table

Sr: 1

Demography Gender Male Female Age 17-20 21-24 Occupation Student

n(%)

30 30

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Discussion
In this table we define demographic variable age ,gender and occupation .Thirty percent of male and thirty percent female participants are define in table .the age limit is 1720 or 21-24 and the questionnaire filled by the university students . The demographic variables are those variables that are define other then dependent and independent variable.

Table 1:
Use of social networking facebook, YouTube and MySpace: Percentage % Percentage % Yes 80 No 18 Percentage % Dont know 1.7

Discussion:
The study show that majority of the student are in favour of the use of social networking .eighty percent of student use social networking in their daily life. Source: Browser Media, Socialnomics, MacWorld shows in 1.1.2014 that people use any networking sites 58%in daily life. And 56% use facebook daily .this show that our finding is right according to others researches. About 1.61 billion people will use a social networking site, such as Facebook, Google+, Instagram or Twitter, this month, according to eMarketer, a market research company. That's a 14.2% increase from 2012, and double-digit growth is expected to continue through next year.

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Table 2:
Social networking helps in studies and increase confident in student: Percentage % Percentage% Percentage % Dont know

Yes

Yes

78

18

3.3

Discussion:
The result shows that (78%) percent participants agree that social networking increase confidence in student and social networking help student in their studies. Student get more confidences in class activities using social networking. Ronald J.J. Voorn* and Piet A.M. Kommers University of Twente, show in his research that social networking increase confident in lower confident student. Few participants who says that they are not using networking sties so not get confidence.

Table 3:
Communication and information is the main purpose of using social networking: Percentage % Yes 74 Percentage % No 24 Percentage % Dont know 4

Discussion:
The result show that (74%) participants says that information and communication is the main purpose of using social networking. Using social networking sties student get more or more information and communicate with each other.(24%) participants are not agree that communication is main purpose of social networking.

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Table 4:
Addict of social networking sties:

Percentage % Yes

Percentage % No

Percentage % Dont know

35

57

Discussion:
Participants says they are not using networking as a addict .They are not negatively use social Networking and their studies are not affect the networking. Majority of student are in favour of (57%) that they not addict of social networking.

Result:
Result indicate that social networking sties has many positive impact on student academic performance .Majority of student are in favour that through social networking they learn so many things ,they get information on different topic and many student get confidence through social networking. Same research article presents the findings of the research project, which generated a large amount of attention during this years National Psychology Week. A set of tips to promote positive online social networking were developed to accompany the media release about the NPW survey findings. The APS survey media release was picked up all around Australia and internationally online, and reached more than 2.3 million people in Australia alone through the print media. International publications online that featured the story included The Epoch Times (US), The Cambodia Times, The Japan Herald, The Times of India, India News, The India Times and LUnita (Italy).

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Psychology survey

Questionnaire

Social networking M.sc Applied psychology

Sex Education Age Group

Please tick () on the right answer. Be true to yourself. The information will not be revealed. 1: Do you use social networking sites? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know

2: Do you use Facebook, You-tub and MySpace? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont Know

3: How long hours a week do you spend on social networking sites? (a) 0-5 hours (b) 6-10 hours (c) 10-15 hours 4: Do you agree social networking help in studies of students? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know

5: Do you think social networking increase confidence in students? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know 6: Do you think that communication is the main purpose of using social networking? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know

7: Do you agree that information is the main purpose of using social networking? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know

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8: Do you think that entertainment is the main purpose of using social networking?

(a) Yes

(b) No

(c) Dont know

9: Do you agree that social networking affect the studies of student? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know

10: Do you think that social networking provide enough opportunities? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont Know

11: Do you have an opinion that connecting with friends and family on social networking is an appealing factor? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont Know

12: Do you agree that excess of using social networking has positive effects? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know

13: Do you feel distractive towards internet (Mobile) when you are taking lectures? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know

14: Do you agree that you are addict of social networking sites? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know 15: Do you like to highlight your relationship to your college/university at your social networking profile? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know

16: Do you believe that social networking affect student physical and mental health? (a) Yes (b) No (c) Dont know

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