THE ADVANTAGES AND

DISADVANTAGES OF
SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG
GRADE 10 STUDENTS OF
ILIGAN CITY NATIONAL
SCHOOL OF FISHERIES
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to our
teacher Laurice S. Saquin who gave us the golden opportunity to do
this wonderful project on the topic THE ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG GRADE 10
STUDENTS OF ILIGAN CITY NATIONAL SCHOOL OF
FISHERIES which also helped us in doing a lot of research and to
know about so many new lessons. We are really thankful to them and
we would also like to thank our parents and friends who helped us a
lot in finalizing this project within the limited time frame.
 ABSTRACT
Social media is a platform that we use every day and spend much time
on them. Therefore, it is necessary to know the basic information about
the advantages and disadvantages using social media. Our research
deals with social media and their perception of the general public. We
examined by the survey which social media people use, for what
purpose they are used and how they perceive the positive and negative
aspects of using social media. After analyzing the survey results, we’ve
identified the three most used social media and the opinion of social
media users on the advantages and disadvantages associated with their
use.
 CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Social media is growing rapidly and becoming a vital part of everyday
life, because of the latest technological revolution. This stunning
growth is due to the increasing usage of smart phones like
BlackBerrys, Androids and iPhones. These Smart phones make it easy
to access any social media platform from anywhere virtually. The
mobile versions of these social media sites are so easy to access made
it user friendly. As well as the Map services made a remarkable usage
through mobile to find direction and places easily. It could be noted
that all the online advertisement channels are into the social media
thing.
 Theoretical framework
This chapter provides an overview of crisis communications and social
media theories, followed by a discussion and summary. The presented
theories are used as a foundation for discussion of empirical findings
presented within the research. The literature on crisis management is
fragmented, as people write about crises from very different
perspectives. To further this notion is the fact that the use of the
internet is evolving as a corporate communication tool but little is
known about the actual use of the internet in a crisis. This review of
theory examines research in the areas of crisis communications and
social media thereby providing direction as well as an overall
framework for the basis of this quantitative and qualitative study. Key
concepts are defined and background is provided to support the
research question.
Conceptual Framework
 HYPOTHESIS
Advantages
1. Connects with the People
2. Easy and Instant Communication
3. Real Time News and Updates
4. Great Opportunities for Businesses
5. Fun and Enjoyment
Disadvantages
1. Information is Overwhelming
2. Privacy Issues
3. Social Peer Pressure or Cyber Bullying
4. Substitution for offline Interaction
5. Affects Lifestyle
 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study would show the study about the advantage and
disadvantages of Social Media among the grade 10 students of Iligan
City National School of Fisheries. It would also show the reason why
teenagers are the most widely users of social media and social media
and social media affects the users, mentally, emotionally and verbally.
 SCOPE AND LIMITATION

This research is mainly focusing on the advantage and disadvantages of social media
among grade 10 students of Iligan City National School of Fisheries and this research.
This research is limited and conducted at the school campus, school year 2018-2019.
The respondents of this research is the grade 10 students of ICNSF. The research is
conducted where in students with different status in life are asked to answer certain
questions with regards to the advantages and disadvantages of social media. In particular,
as the main issue of influence. The study aims to establish whether using social media can
make a student a better leader or a troublemaker.
 DEFINITION OF TERMS

1.Viral: Anything shared across social networks that get passed along rapidly.
YouTube videos are a great example.
2. Platform: A system that manages content. For instance, WordPress is a
platform that manages a community of blogs.
3. Authenticity: Used to describe "real" people behind blog posts and other
social profiles.
4. Influence: An individual's importance online is now measured by the Clout
Score, a measurement of online influence.
5. B2B: Business to Business.
 CHAPTER 2
RELATED LITERATURE
There are three different parts that are being discussed in the literature
review. It is examined that the first one id the comparative analysis of
the ABC and the other social media channels. The second one is the
advantages of the social media, and the third one is the disadvantages of
the social media so that the entire picture could be explained in the
paper.
It is noted that there are many different advantages of the social media
in the country. It has been noted that the one of the biggest is that the
realities and the latest news are updated to the globe all over.
There are many disadvantages for the social media too. One of the
greatest could be seen as wrong of the false statement does spread with
the speed of fire over the social media. Things go viral in seconds.
 RELATED STUDIES

This study highlights the advantage and disadvantage of social media

that was conducted among grade 10 students of Iligan City National
School of Fisheries.
 METHODOLOGY
METHOD USE
The researchers did their research paper by the participation of the respondents in
making an informal interview. The researchers used questionnaires that are easy to
answer.

THE LOCALE OF THE STUDY

The researchers conducted their study in Iligan City National School of Fisheries
among Grade 10 students. The school is located in Barangay Buru-un, Iligan City. The
researchers conducted their study in this school because they are one of the Grade 10
students specifically section Unicorn.
THE RESPONDENTS OF THE STUDY
The grade 10 students of Iligan City National School of Fisheries are the
respondents of this research. The identified 10 students were coming from section
Unicorn.
RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS
The researchers used questionnaires as the instrument of this research
because it is easy for the respondents to answer.

STATISTICAL TOOL USED

The researchers used the percentage frequency to specify the percentage
for each data. The steps of finding the frequency are count the total
number of answers of the data points and then divide it by the total
number of the respondents by this method they will know how many
respondents are recently using social media in their daily life.
DATA GATHERING
The researchers gathered the data by giving the questionnaires to the
respondents in grade 10 section Unicorn. The researchers waited for about
5 minutes for the respondents to answer the questionnaires.
 CHAPTER 4

This chapter is to present the presentation, interpretation and the

analysis of the collected data. Ten respondents took part in the
research. The data obtained from the ten questionnaire were analyzed
and will be discussed in this chapter and were presented in a clear and
concise form, specifically through tables.
 Table 1. What are the things you have at home
or owned?
Respondent Computer % Cellphone % Tablet % Others

10 2 20 7 70 1 10 0

The table shows that the ten respondents there are 2 or 20

percent of the respondents have computer at home, 7 or 70
percent of the respondents has cellphones and 1 or 10 percent
of the respondents have tablet. This data shows that majority
of the respondents has a cellphone.
 Table 2. Do you have an account in social
media?
Respondents Yes % No %

10 8 80 2 20

The table shows that the 10 respondents there are 80 percent

have an account in social media and 20 percent have no account
in social media.
 Table 3 What social media you often used
Respondents Fb % Twitter % Instagram % Others %

10 7 70 1 10 2 20 0 0

The table shows that the 10 respondents there are 70 percent

have an account in Facebook, there are 10 percent have an
account in twitter, and 20 percent have an account in
Instagram.
 Table 4 is the social media you used is
important?
Respondents Yes % No %

10 5 50 5 50

The table shows that the 10 respondents there are 50

percent using the important app and 50 percent they
used unimportant app.
 TABLE 5 CAN YOU TAKE WITHOUT
SOCIAL MEDIA?
Respondents Yes % No % Undecided %

10 3 30 6 60 1 10

The table shows that the 10 respondents there are 30 percent who can
take without social media, there are 60 percent who cannot take without
social media and there are 10 percent who are still undecided.
 FINDINGS

Majority of the students have their own gadgets to access internet and in
social media and has too much account on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
And engaged chatting to their friends, families, relatives and in the other
countries like United States of America. According on the researchers, it can
be the reason why they can’t focus on their studies.

Social media may include Google, Wikipedia and other websites where the
students do their assignments. Facebook is the most popular website in
social media because majority of the respondents are engaged in friends
group which means that many of them is communicating through Facebook.
However, the social media is very important in getting information and in
communication. Therefore, the researchers conclude that the students are
really engaged in social media.
 CHAPTER 5
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND
RECOMMENDATION
SUMMARY
The overriding purpose of these study was to determine how does social media affects
the student’s life, especially in balancing their time between their studies, family,
friends, and social media. To accomplish that what goal, it became necessary to reach
some prerequisite goals. Determining what is social media and its effects of impact
students assumed a high degree of important for us to know the reason why do students
keep on using it and why do they chose to get engage with it. Related to the effort, it
became necessary to reach an understanding about how do this thing works. To provide
for the answer of the question stated above, it is important to do some research with the
questionnaire to do their reason. Once this fundamental was achieved, this research was
able to move forward. This chapter efforts the summary, findings, the conclusion and
the recommendation that resulted from this research.
 CONCLUSIONS

It could be concluded that there are many different portions of the

proposal that are being taken into consideration. It is stated that the
scope of the paper is explained in a well-mannered way. Here the
research questions are explained in accordance to the primary and the
secondary questions that what are the advantages and many
disadvantages for using social media in ICNSF. Moreover, the
questionnaire will be used in the paper. Here the research limitations
are noted
 RECOMMENDATIONS
• Based on the study, this research paper makes some following
recommendations to the students who are engaged in social media
• Be aware of what you post or share in social media
• Know your limit in spending time in social media
• Don't publish private information about yourself
• Don’t use the social media for any conflicts or arguments
• Be careful in choosing your friends in any social media accounts
 A Research Paper
Presented to English Area

ILIGAN CITY NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FISHERIES

by
Darylle S. Benelayo
Babylyn C. Kanor
Mike Carlo Navarro
Erica Dohilag
Mica Andales
Fretzie Ann Maghanoy
Dennis Canoy
Mae Ann Tingal
Nourine Generalao
Ellamae Joy Panuncialman

March 2019