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Effects of Social Networking Sites To The Youth of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas
A Research Presented to the Faculty of University of Batangas
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In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Social Science I
Alexandra B. Manzanillo
October 2011

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Acknowledgement

Social networking is the process of finding friends and managing friendships through the Internet. Those who wish to meet others online put up their most compelling and attractive presentations through their profile pages. They join various groups that meet their interest and communicate by commenting topics therein or by simply introducing new topics related hoping to encourage discussion. According to Danah M. Boyd and Nicole B Ellison (boyd, d., & Ellison, N. (2007))“social networks are web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded

Lipa City system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection and view and traverse their list of connection and those made by others within the system.” This can be seen on the various social networks available on the Internet, such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and many others. In this paper, I will explain the history of social networks, the advantages and disadvantages of such sites and where I stand as a social networking person, although I favor social networking sites.

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Dedication I dedicate this research paper to my professor Dr. Minerva Apita as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Social ScienceI, and to my parents who taught me that the best kind of knowledge to have is that which is learned for its own sake, and taught me that even the largest task can be accomplished if it is done one step at a time.

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Abstract
Name: Alexandra B. Manzanillo
Subject: Social Science I
School: University of BatangasLipa Campus
The aim of this study is to research the different Social Networking Sites used by the youths of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas and its advantages/disadvantages, effects, and importance.
Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme

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section of theJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition.

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List of Graphs 1. What are the different Social Networking Sites used by the youth of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas?
Graph No.1 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Social Networking Sites to every youth in Brgy.Poblacion, Balete, Batangas.?
Graph No.2 3. How does it affects the Youth of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas?
Graph No.3

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4. What is the importance of having this Social Networking Sites to the lives of the Youths from Brgy.Poblacion, Balete, Batangas.?
Graph No.4

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CHAPTER 1
Background of the Study

Introduction
The first hint of social networking websites was witnessed in the year 1997 through formation of a certain company called Sixdegrees.com. This company was the first of its kind; it allowed user to list their profiles, provide a list of friends and then contact them. However, the Company did not do very well as it eventually closed three years later. The reason for this was that many people using the internet at that time had not formed many social networks hence there was

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little room for maneuver. It should be noted that there were also other elements that hinted at Social network websites. For instance, dating sites required users to give their profiles but they could not share other people's websites. Additionally, there were some websites that would link former school mates but the lists could not be shared with others. (Cassidy, 2006)
After this there was the creation of Live Journal in the year 1999. It was created in order to facilitate one way exchanges of journals between friends. Another company in Korea called Cyworld added some social networking features in the year 2001. This was then followed by Lunar Storm in Sweden during the same year. They include things like diary pages and friends

Lipa City lists. Additionally, Ryze.com also established itself in the market. It was created with the purpose of linking business men within San Francisco. The Company was under the management of Friendster, LinkedIn, Tribe.net and Ryze. The latter company was the least successful among all others. However, Tribe.net specialized in the business world but Friendster initially did well; this did not last for long. (Cohen, 2003) I define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.

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The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.
While we use the term "social network site" to describe this phenomenon, the term "social networking sites" also appears in public discourse, and the two terms are often used interchangeably. We chose not to employ the term "networking" for two reasons: emphasis and scope. "Networking" emphasizes relationship initiation, often between strangers. While networking is possible on these sites, it is not the primary practice on many of them, nor is it what differentiates them from other forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC).
What makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users

Lipa City to articulate and make visible their social networks. This can result in connections between individuals that would not otherwise be made, but that is often not the goal, and these meetings are frequently between "latent ties" (Haythornthwaite, 2005) who share some offline connection. On many of the large SNSs, participants are not necessarily "networking" or looking to meet new people; instead, they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network. To emphasize this articulated social network as a critical organizing feature of these sites, we label them "social network sites."
While SNSs have implemented a wide variety of technical features, their backbone consists of visible profiles that display

Lipa City an articulated list of Friends1 who are also users of the system. Profiles are unique pages where one can "type oneself into being" (Sundén, 2003, p. 3). After joining an SNS, an individual is asked to fill out forms containing a series of questions. The profile is generated using the answers to these questions, which typically include descriptors such as age, location, interests, and an "about me" section. Most sites also encourage users to upload a profile photo. Some sites allow users to enhance their profiles by adding multimedia content or modifying their profile's look and feel. Others, such as Facebook, allow users to add modules ("Applications") that enhance their profile.

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The visibility of a profile varies by site and according to user discretion. By default, profiles on Friendster and Tribe.net are crawled by search engines, making them visible to anyone, regardless of whether or not the viewer has an account. Alternatively, LinkedIn controls what a viewer may see based on whether she or he has a paid account. Sites like MySpace allow users to choose whether they want their profile to be public or "Friends only." Facebook takes a different approach—by default, users who are part of the same "network" can view each other's profiles, unless a profile owner has decided to deny permission to those in their network. Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other.

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After joining a social network site, users are prompted to identify others in the system with whom they have a relationship. The label for these relationships differs depending on the site—popular terms include "Friends," "Contacts," and "Fans." Most SNSs require bi-directional confirmation for Friendship, but some do not. These one-directional ties are sometimes labeled as "Fans" or "Followers," but many sites call these Friends as well. The term "Friends" can be misleading, because the connection does not necessarily mean friendship in the everyday vernacular sense.
The public display of connections is a crucial component of SNSs. The Friends list contains links to each Friend's profile, enabling viewers to traverse the network graph

Lipa City by clicking through the Friends lists. On most sites, the list of Friends is visible to anyone who is permitted to view the profile, although there are exceptions. For instance, some MySpace users have hacked their profiles to hide the Friends display, and LinkedIn allows users to opt out of displaying their network.
Most SNSs also provide a mechanism for users to leave messages on their Friends' profiles. This feature typically involves leaving "comments," although sites employ various labels for this feature. In addition, SNSs often have a private messaging feature similar to webmail. While both private messages and comments are popular on most of the major SNSs, they are not universally available.

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Statement of the Problem
Questions
1. What are the different Social Networking Sites used by the youth of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Social Networking Sites to every youth in Brgy.Poblacion, Balete, Batangas.
3. How does it affects the Youth of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas?

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4. What is the importance of having this Social Networking Sites to the lives of the Youths from Brgy.Poblacion, Balete, Batangas.?

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Significance
The following and the significance of the study in students, community, and readers.
Students
The result of this study will make the students aware of how does socialnetworking sites influence them and how does it affect their interpersonalrelationships. This will educate the students regarding the proper usage of socialnetworking sites. This will help the students to improve their social life with theuse of social networking sites.

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Teachers
This study can help the teachers by suggesting some ways in order for themto relate with student’s social activities especially with regards of using socialnetworking sites. In line with this, teachers, as student’s second parents, willknow a way how to help the students if they will be encountering a problemregarding the relationship of their students with other people.
Parents.
This study will help parents to understand their child’s purpose of using social networking sites and for them to be aware of the influence from social networking

Lipa City sites that might affect their children.With enough knowledge, parents can think if possible preventive ways if their child is prone to develop a weak interpersonalrelationship with other people because of too much usage and dependence fromsocial networking sites.

Community
This study can help the further studies of future researchers regarding the influence of social networking sites on the interpersonal relationship of students. This can serve as a reference for further improvements to be done in their study.

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Readers
This study will help the readers to be aware of the influences of social networking sites to the students, youthschildrens and others. By informing them of this matter, they will be able to relate more with students/youths and to give accurate advices to students that have problems involving SNS’s.

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Definition of Terms
This study, which is about the influence of social networking sites to theinterpersonal relationship of the students, used the following terms defined conceptuallyand operationally. These terms are used within the context of the study.
Face – to – face friendship. It is a type of friendship wherein you can actually be withthem and see them more often and you know about them well enough.
Offline Friend. It is a term used to call a person who is your friend in real life.

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Online Friend. It is a term used to call a person added on your Social Networking Siteaccount.
Privacy.It is the ability of an individual or group to secure their personal informationand activities apart from others.
Profile. This is offered by social networking sites that contains all the personalinformation about the person and their activities.
Social behaviour. It is behaviour directed towards society, or taking place between,members of the same species.

Social Games. They are defined as games found in social networking sites which allowsocial interaction with friends during the gameplay. (e.g. Pet Society, farmville)

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Social Networking. It refers to making a social structure made of nodes that are tied byone or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship,financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs,knowledge or prestige.
Social Networking Sites. It focuses on building online communities of people whoshare interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interestsand activities of others. Social networking sites are web based and provide avariety of ways for users to interact.

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CHAPTER 2
Review of Related
This chapter contains the review of related literature of the study and thejustification of the conceptual and research literature gathered from books, journals,researches and online sources.
A. Conceptual Literature
Social networking sites have added entirely new meanings to interpersonal interaction and community. It is the interplay between internet and real life communication and its subsequent effect on interpersonal relationships. Popular social networking websites such as Facebook have bundled many of

Lipa City the internet communication standards such as e-mail, forums, and instant messaging into one resource. However, its usage has become a staple activity in a young adult’s life. While it varies slightly among gender and race groups, overall, young adults (college aged)who have internet access use Facebook regularly for some type of social contact. With this mass assimilation into daily life, it has already begun to change the way in which interpersonal relationships are defined. It is one of the, if not the top medium for young adults to “scope out” and “research” potential partners. With Facebook playing a large role in many romantic relationships, it’s important to see how this will continue to shape interpersonal communication in the future. The importance of this research proposal is to look at how Facebook is an extension of real life.

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B. Research Literature
According to the youths of Brgy.Poblacion, there are some reasons why an individual uses asocial networking site. The first reason is for them to meet strangers and becomefriends with them. This type of relationship is what we call a weak interpersonalrelationship.
Throughsocial networking sites like facebook, the user tends to maintain his weak interpersonalrelationship with his online friends because of an easy communication. He/she can useprivate messaging, chat rooms, and other method of communicating provided by thewebsite. On the otherhand, a strong interpersonal relationship with his offline friendsneeds time and effort to be maintained.

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Distance between two users that can change an offline relationship into onlinerelationship is also a reason why an individual uses SNSs.. With the use ofprivate messaging and chat rooms of this site, youths can communicate and maintaina healthy relationship with their friends from far places with ease that takes only a fewseconds to complete it.
Social Networking Sites also have negative effects in offline relationships. Somethings found in the site can lead to misinterpretation for some people. Because of onlinemessaging or comments that are visible to everyone in the friends list of a user, anoffline relationship can be affected or destroyed due to fights that will happen. For example, a jealous boyfriend saw a comment from a mysterious boy posted on the wallof his girlfriend that says intimate words, because of this,

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As a larger percentage of communication moves into the digital arena, we willsee a general weakening of ties between people. This weakening will be less pervasiveamong a person’s closest circle of friends and more obvious among lesser friends, asdigital communication will become the primary mode of communication in theserelationships.

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C. Justification of the Study
This related studies and concepts helped in determining the advantages/disadvantages, effects, and importance of social networking sites on the interpersonal relationship of youths in Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas. There were some studies conducted that dealt with social networking and its effects towards teenagers in different aspects. Interpersonal relationship, particularly that of youths in Brgy.Poblacion, Balete, Batangas , isn't one of those aspects, although some of the aforementioned studies have tackled somewhat similar aspects to that of the one being studied on by the researchers.

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CHAPTER 3
Research Design and Methodology
This chapter contains Research Design, Research Instrument, Personal Data Sheet, Method of Investigation and Procedure.

A. Research Design
This study used descriptive research design. It involves the description, recording, analysis, and interpretation of the present nature, composition, or processes of phenomena. It focuses on prevailing conditions or how a person, group, or thing behaves or functions in the present. It often involves some type of comparison or contrast.

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I used the survey technique which is under descriptive research design. Survey technique, requires gathering of facts that requires sufficient and accurate interpretation. This technique is used to collect demographic data about respondent’s behavior, beliefs, opinions, interests and the like and then the gathered data are analyzed, organized, and interpreted.
B. Research Instrument
As a researchers I used questionnaires and survey forms as research instruments. The survey form asked if the respondents are using social networking sites and their advantages/disadvantages, effects, and importance of using the sites. After determining those who use social networking

Lipa City siteseveryday, the questionnaire asked for the profile of the respondents and the status of their interpersonal relationship with their family, friends, teachers, classmates and others.
C. Personal Data Sheet
As a researchers I distribute a survey form to each youths in order todetermine the users of social networking sites and must be accomplished within two tothree days. After thatI collected the survey forms, a list of the respondentswhich are SNS users will be organized then copies of the main questionnaire will beproduced. The copies of the main questionnaire will depend on the number of therespondents. However, extra copies will be reproduced if some respondents loss theirquestionnaires. The respondents will be given two to three days allowance to answerthe main questionnaire. An

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D. Method of Investigation
As a researcher I used purposive sampling. This sampling method includedrespondents that fall under the purpose of the study and others that are not useful forthe study are positively excluded. The study focused on the effects,advantages/disadvantages, and importance of SNS to them.

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CHAPTER 4
Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation of Data
Problem1.What are the different Social Networking Sites used by the youth of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas?
Graph No.1

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Explanation:
In this Graph No.1, it shows that the SNS facebook is the highest site that used by the Youth of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas because, according to them facebook is the most attracted site today and it is enjoying because, there is a chat, or group chat, fun games and chat with camera.
Problem 2.What are the advantages and disadvantages of Social Networking Sites to every youth in Brgy.Poblacion, Balete, Batangas.?

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Graph No.2

Explanation:
In this Graph No.2, it shows that the SNS has more advantages than disadvantages to the youth because, it help them to communicate with others even if sometimes it has disadvantages to use it by them because it can cause addiction to the youths.

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Problem No.3 . How does it affects the Youth of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas?
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Explanation:
In this Graph No.3, it shows that the SNS has more good effects to the youth because, according to them they will have many friends.
Problem No.4 What is the importance of having this Social Networking Sites to the lives of the Youths from Brgy.Poblacion, Balete, Batangas?

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Graph No.4

Explanation:
In this Graph No.4, it shows that the SNS has more important to the youth because according to them the SNS help them to communicate with others in research papers and others.

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CHAPTER 5
Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations
Bibliography

A. Summary of Findings
The research was conducted for the purpose of finding out the influence of social networking sites to the use, advantages/disadvantages, effects, and importance of youths in Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas. Thedescriptive method of research was used and the descriptive survey technique was used by my research in gathering data. I made the use of questionnairesfor the gathering of data. The method of

Lipa City investigation used was purposive. I used 50 respondents for this research. This research wasconducted during the school year 20011.
Problem 1.What are the different Social Networking Sites used by the youth of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas?

Out of 50 respondents, 95 percent are mostly used the SNS facebook, 3 percent are used the SNS twitter, 2 percent are used the tumblr, and 0 percent for plurk. Out of 50 respondents, 95percent are 13-22 years old, 3 percent are 23 above years old, 2 percent are 23 above years old, and 0

Lipa City percent. Out of 50 respondents, 95 percent are females and males.
Problem No.2 What are the advantages and disadvantages of Social Networking Sites to every youth in Brgy.Poblacion, Balete, Batangas.?
Out of 50 respondents, 95 percent of them are more believe that SNS has more advantages and the 5 percent are not believe.
Problem No.3 How does it affects the Youth of Brgy. Poblacion, Balete, Batangas?
Out of 50 respondents the 95 percent of them are more good effects of SNS and 5 percent of them are have bad effects of SNS.

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Problem No.4 What is the importance of having this Social Networking Sites to the lives of the Youths from Brgy.Poblacion, Balete, Batangas.?
Out of 50 respondents 95 percents of them are said that the SNS has more importance to them as a youth because, they will have more friends and it will easy to do an a assignment and 5 percent of them said that it is not important for them.
B. Conclusions
After analyzing the data gathered by my research, I arrived with thefollowing conclusions:

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1.) Using social networking sites helped the respondents to communicate with their family, friends, teachers, and with others.
2.) Most of the respondents are using Facebook just to have fun and entertainmentbecause of its available features for the users.
3.) The respondents are cautious with the strangers that they meet in SNS's because of having a limited friends added to their account that they know.

4.) The respondents intend to open-up more with their friends in social networking sitesthan with others.
5.) Most of the respondents use social networking sites for only 1-6 hours in a day.

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C. Recommendations
Based on the conclusions that I research, I have formulated the following recommendations:
1.) Parents, teachers, and guidance counselors must encourage the youths/students to use SNS since it promotes good effects to the youths.
2.) Youths must properly use social networking sites and not just for fun and entertainment but for communication with their family, friends and teachers.
3.) Social networking site developers and companies must improve the security and privacy that they are giving to its users to promote a safe environment especially for children and teenagers.

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4.) Youths must also encourage their friends to use SNS frequently since it promotes good communication with their family, friends, classmates and teachers regarding works and related activities.
5.) Youths must also encourage their friends to use SNS since it promotes good relationship making friendship ties grow stronger.

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Bibliography
1.http://www.scribd.com/doc/27327211/The-Influence-of-Social-Networking-Sites-to-Interpersonal-Relationships-of-the-Youths-of-los banoslaguna.
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3. http://www.danah.org/researchBibs/sns.php
4. http://malenel.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/25-perspectives-on-social-networking/

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Appendices

APPENDIX A – SURVEY INSTRUMENT ..... 64
APPENDIX B – CARNEGIE CLASSIFICATIONS ..... 82
APPENDIX C –COMMUNITIES RESEARCH FACT SHEET ..... 85
APPENDIX D– GENERAL INTERNET USE BY INSTITUTION ..... 97
APPENDIX E– FACEBOOK USE BY INSTITUTION ..... 102
APPENDIX F – NON-FACEBOOK USE BY INSTITUTION ..... 111
APPENDIX G– PHYSICAL WORLD INVOLVEMENT BY INSTITUTION ..... 112

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Curriculum Vitae
Name: Alexandra B.Manzanillo
Course: BSBA-BM1
Date: October2011
School: University of BatangasLipa Campus
Professor: Dr. Minerva Apita