Chapter 2
REVIEW RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter presents the review related to the study about lowering the time
spent on using Facebook to accelerate the academic performances of the students. It
also presents the information about the Facebook and how it affects the academic
performances of the students.
Related Literature
Facebook is a social networking website where users can share photographs,
post comments and post links to other interesting content on the web, chat live, and
watch short-form video (Daniel, 2019).
According to M.A. (2014), Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris
Hughes created Facebook as a site for Harvard students in February 2004. By January
2008, it becomes the most popular and visited with 34 million unique visitors and with
98 million unique visitors (comScore, 2008). 67 million active users was reported by
Facebook, and more than half of the users returning daily and spending an average of
20 minutes per day on the site (Facebook, 2008). It provides a formatted web page into
which each user can enter personal information, including address, gender, birthday,
political and religious views, e-mail and physical, relationship status, activities, interests,
music and movies, educational background and a main personal picture. Types of
people were comprised by Facebook, but college students still make up the largest
percentage of active Facebook users, which is roughly 30% of all users
([Link], 2009). Facebook serves roughly 500 million people enabling them
to share multitudes of information and connect with others (Fletcher, 2010).
According to Kirkpatrick (2010), Facebook provides an online platform on which
students create profiles, promote and share information and contents and have
interactions with contacts both known and unknown. People of all generation have led
to its use when the Facebook has expanded. Online platform attraction and its
persuasive character and the reason that cause people of every kind and different ages
to this community was examined by several types of research. Facebook extension
presence can have effects that are harmful to academic performance shown from other
studies. Their academic performance will be reduce and thus their grades if students
spends more of their time on Facebook.
Academic Performance refers to how students deal with their studies and how
they complete different assignments given to them by their teachers. Facebook have
become a furious craze for everyone these days. Students pay more attention towards
Facebook rather than spending their time for studies and affects their academic
performance. The students become preys of social networks more often than anyone
else. This is because when they are studying or exploring their course online, they get
attracted to these sites to eliminate the boredom in their time in studying, sidetracking
their attention from their work & they forget why they are using internet (M.A. 2014).
Facebook has covered the way for a faster, more comfortable and efficient
social interaction. Over six hundred million users worldwide and has an annual growth
of 45.2%, Facebook is the current biggest social networking site (Inside Facebook gold,
June 2011). In addition, in the Philippines, Facebook has more than 28 million users
which ranks no. 8 in Facebook statistics by country ([Link], 2012).
Filipino students have abused the advantages that Facebook and has been
using it without moderation and caution. Eventually, it has greatly affected their
academic performances. Garcia (2011) generally stated that Facebook usage have
apparent effects on students, both positive and negative.
