This document discusses several studies that have examined the relationship between social media use and students' academic performance. Some key findings include: 1) Studies have found lower GPAs among heavy social media users, with Facebook users averaging a GPA of 3.0-3.5 compared to 3.5-4.0 for non-users. 2) Excessive time spent on social media is associated with less time spent studying, which can negatively impact grades. 3) However, some studies have found no correlation, suggesting social media may now be integrated into student life without harming academic performance. 4) The relationship between social media use and academic performance is complex with many possible influencing factors.

1. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Social media has lead the youth to explore new patterns of information and perform
multitasking. Though, this multitasking has effect the time utility and distribution in both
positive and negative ways. One of this significant effect of social media is the student’s
academic performance and several empirical studies have reported the excessive unproductive
time spent on social networking sites have effect the students grades (Facebook and academic
performance). Similarly, SNS do affect one’s academic performance adversely. It causes the
gradual drop in the grades of the students directly. It affects the student’s academic performance
if he/she invests his/her time in SNS instead in his studies.
According to HR, IT/Technology, Management facebook has negative effect on the
academic performance. The Britain School study which was about the Facebook and its cites.
Testing was done for a period of three months, the first two months access to Facebook was
denied and the third month access to Facebook was allowed. In this study, it was noticed slight
decline of grades, but what is even more important is lack of concentration and poor knowledge
acceptance. The problem does not occur only in case when students were actually logged on to
Facebook and didn’t pay attention to what teacher says. The problem is in the fact that current
event on the Facebook divert them also in the time when they are not connected to it. The
students do not concentrate on their studies because their concentration is divided into study and
Facebook both. The test showed that the use of social networks in school has a negative impact
on grades.
Similarly, FACEBOOK users may feel socially successful in e-world but they are more
likely to perform poorly in exams, according to new research into the academic impact of the
social networking website. Mostly students spend a lot of time on these sites during exams
instead of on preparation for their exams. The Karpinski research shows that students who used
Facebook had a “significantly” lower grade point average – than those who did not use the site.
The majority of students who use Facebook every day are underachieving by as much as an
entire grade compared with those who shun the site. Researchers have discovered how students
who spend their time accumulating friends, gossiping and poking others on the site may devote
as little as one hour a week to their academic work. Karpinski says she isn’t surprised by her
findings but clarifies that the study does not suggest that Facebook directly causes lower grades,
merely that there’s some relationship between the two factors. May be Facebook users are just
prone to interruption.
A study was presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research
Association on April 16, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that GPAs
of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade point lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5
for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers. It also found that 79% of Facebook

2. members did not believe there was any link between their GPA and their networking habits.
Oxford University neuroscientist Susan Greenfield expressed that social networks like Facebook,
Twitter and Yahoo etc. are “infantilizing the brain into the state of small children” by shortening
the attention span and providing constant instant satisfaction. It is in the hands of students, in
consultation with their parents, to define preferences and decide how to spend their time.
According to Ahmed T, Alahmar same as mentioned above, social networking among
college students has become more and more popular. Facebook has over 500 million members
and it is still growing. Approximately 85% of undergraduate students are Facebook users. The
average Facebook user had a GPA of 3.0 to 3.5, while the non-Facebook user had a GPA of 3.5-
4.0. Also, the average Facebook user studied for 1-5 hours per week, while the non-Facebook
user would student 11-15 hours per week. Many researchers are aware that Facebook is not the
only thing that could possibly be taking away study time. However, 55% of those surveyed
“access their pages several times a day or at least once a day for a long period of time”. This time
has to eat away at study time. Social networking is here to stay. As demonstrated above, its use
has an impact on how students interact with others, and on grades.
In the study of Rehan Masoom and Lucy Belnora unlike to the above mentioned
situations, this study implies the investigation of relationship between SNSs usage and
educational performance of the student users. A sample of one thousand students was selected
from different universities of Pakistan. In first step of Multistage Sampling Technique, simple
random sampling technique was used to select 6 universities i.e. 2 from private sector and 4 from
public sector. To form clusters, these universities were further divided and each cluster consisted
of four faculties i.e. faculty of social sciences, faculty of engineering, faculty of
business/management sciences and faculty of natural sciences. Simple random sampling was
done at last stage of multistage sampling. Personally administrated questionnaires were used as
data collection tool and 73% students responded back. Conclusion drawn is that student manage
their time efficiently and fulfill their study requirements effectively, hence use of SNSs does not
have an adverse impact on their academic performance. Likewise, Parents know that computers
are important for their children’s school work, but may worry that the attraction of social
networking pulls students away from studies. Those students who are heavily engaged with
social networking sites, those students do just academic discussion as well, those students are
less interested with other activities. The professor of University of New Hampshire Chuck
Martin, said that the College students have grown up with social networks. The research shows
that there is no correlation between the amount of time students spend using social media and
their grades. The study indicates that social media is being integrated with rather than interfering
with students’ academic lives. SNSs are now simply part of how students interact with each other
with no apparent impact on grades. Sixty-three percent of heavy users received high grades,
compared to 65 percent of light users. Researchers found similar results with lower grades.
While 37 percent of heavy users of social media received what were defined as lower grades, 35
percent of light users received fell into that same category.

3. HYPOTHESIS
If the students will focus in social media their study habits will decreased because
students spend most of their time in social media than studying their lessons.
HO: (Null hypothesis): there is no significance impact of social media to the students
study habits.
HA: (Alternative hypothesis): there is a significance relationship between social media
and students study habits.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Number of Hours
1-2 HOURS
3-4 HOURS
5-6 HOURS
7 AND ABOVE
Social Media
FACEBOOK
INSTAGRAM
GOOGLE
YOUTUBE
TWITTER
WATTPAD
Demographic Profile of
Grade 12 Students
Track
CSS 12-A
COOKERY-A
HUMMS-A
AGE
17 AND ABOVE
Framework
Impact of social media in the study habits of Senior High School
Students.

4. DEFINITION OF TERMS
Accumulating- to gather or pile up especially little by little.
Adversely- acting against or in a contrary direction.
Cluster- a number of similar things that occur together.
Consultation- a meeting to discuss something or to get advice
Divert- to turn from one course or use to another.
Empirical- originating in or based on observation or experience.
Excessive- is usual, proper, necessary, or normal.
Gradual- a book containing the choral parts of the Mass.
Gossiping- conversation or reports about other people's private lives that might be
unkind, disapproving, or not true.
Habit-something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are doing
it.
Indicate- to show, point, or make clear in another way
Impact- to have an influence on something
Interact- to act upon one another.
Multitasking- Multitasking, in a human context, is the practice of doing multiple things
simultaneously.
Prone- having a tendency or inclination.
Random- without definite aim, direction, rule, or method
Range- a series of things in a line.
Shun- avoiding deliberately and especially habitually.
Significant-having or likely to have influence or effect.
Social media- Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to
community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration.
Underachieving- one (such as a student) that fails to attain a predicted level of
achievement or does not do as well as expected.