For this research, descriptive research design will be used.
The sample size will be 300 Students of Ahmadabad. Structure questionnaire will be developed to mensurate influence of Facebook on college pupils ' Academic Performance with regard to Ahmedabad.
1.0 Introduction
Socializing via the Internet has become an progressively of import portion of immature grownup life. Relative to the general population, striplings and immature grownups are the heaviest Internet users.SNS are the latest communicating tool for interaction with people in their webs.Social networking sites can be defined as an on-line service, platform, or site that focuses on edifice and reflecting of societal webs or societal dealingss among people, who, for illustration, portion involvements and/or activities. A societal web service consists of a representation of each user ( frequently a profile ) , his/her societal links, and a assortment of extra services.The most celebrated societal networking sites in India are Orkut, facebook, LinkedIn, Ibibo, Twitter.
One such web site is Facebook, which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roomies and fellow pupils Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes and was launched in February 2004, operated and in private owned by Facebook, Inc. A January 2009 Compete.com survey ranked Facebook as the most used societal networking service by world-wide monthly active users.Users can make profiles with exposures, lists of personal involvements, contact information, and other personal information. Users can pass on with friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat characteristic.
They can besides make and fall in involvement groups and `` like pages '' , some of which are maintained by organisations as a agency of advertisement. To still concerns about privateness, Facebook enables users to take their ain privateness scenes and take who can see specific parts of their profile. The Web site is free to users, and generates gross from advertisement, such as streamer ads. Facebook requires a user 's name and profile image ( if applicable ) to be accessible by everyone.
Users can command who sees other information they have shared, every bit good as who can happen them in hunts, through their privateness scenes.Asia stands at 2nd place among the facebook users in the universe holding 183.9 1000000s of users holding 4.7 % incursion degree as of 2011. The incursion of facebook in India is 3.
4 %Facebook is a societal networking site that has become so popular among college pupils that it is non excessively implausible to believe that societal networking of this magnitude might hold some negative effects on college life. Several researches have examined the consequence of societal media on the academic public presentation of the pupils.Through this research, we have focused on one of the societal networking site i.e facebook and tried to happen out the influence of facebook on academic public presentation of the pupils.
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0 Literature ReviewIn the paper entitled `` The influence of societal networking sites on pupils ' academic public presentation in Malaysia '' by Adam Mahamat Helou and Nor Zairah Ab. Rahim, they tried to analyze the pupils ' perceptual experiences on the usage of societal networking sites and its influence on their academic public presentation. They found most of the respondents do experience that the SNSs have more positive impact on their academic public presentation due to its usage for assorted academic activities such as pass oning with the module and university authorization, pass oning with lectors and supervisors, doing academic treatments with schoolmates and chew the fating with friends in regard to subjects of educational involvement.Nicola Cavalli Et Al.
in his paper `` Facebook influence on university pupils ' media wonts: qualitative consequences from a field research '' found that in 2008, half of the pupils were wholly unfamiliar with Facebook, while in 2009 all their respondents were cognizant of it and 59 % of them were besides utilizing it on a regular footing.In the paper `` Effectss of societal web on pupils ' public presentation: A web-based forum survey in Taiwan '' the research worker investigates investigates the effects of societal webs on pupils ' public presentation in on-line instruction which uses networking as an accessory manner for heightening traditional face-to-face instruction or distance instruction. They found that reding web variables are positively related to pupil public presentation both in the category and on the forum. Adversarial variables are negatively correlated with about all pupils ' public presentation.
In a survey of `` Lessons from Facebook: The Effect of Social Network Sites on College Students ' Social Capital '' by Sebastian Valenzuela2, Namsu Park3, and Kerk F. Kee4 University of Texas at Austin they examine if facebook, one of the most popular societal web sites among immature grownups in the U.S. , fulfills the promise of civic news media: to trip attitudes and behaviours that enhance public life and civic action. They found moderate, positive relationships between strength of Facebook usage and pupils ' life satisfaction, societal trust, civic engagement and political battle.
In the paper `` The relationship between facebook use and academic public presentation '' - A survey at Ohio province University by Aryn Karpinski and Adam Duberstein ( Ohio Dominican University ) found that facebook use was associated with lower GPAs, and less clip analyzing. Those who use facebook tended to hold lower GPAs than those who did non, and it appears from the batch of articles written about it, that within the group that used facebook that more use was associated with lower GPAs and less clip analyzing.A survey on `` The Benefits of Facebook ''Friends: '' Social Capital and College Students ' Use of Online Social Network Sites '' by Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfield and Cliff Lampe examines the relationship between usage of Facebook, a popular online socialnetwork site, and the formation and care of societal capital.
The survey suggested a strong association between usage of Facebook and the three types of societal capital, with the strongest relationship being to bridging societal capital.In a research paper entitled `` Lessons from Facebook: The Effect of Social Network Sites on College Students ' Social Capital '' by Sebastian Valenzuela, Namsu Park, and Kerk F. Kee at University of Texas at Austin examines if Facebook, is one of the most popular societal web sites among immature grownups in the U.S.
3.0 Aims
To analyze How much clip pupils actively spent on face book.To cognize the most preferable societal networking site among pupilsTo cognize the impact by the ownership of GPRS phones and usage of facebook.To analyze association between the usage of facebook and academic public presentation.4.0 Research Methodology
A descriptive research was used for study Impact of Facebook on students'academic public presentation.A study attack was chosen to garner information from pupils of Ahmedabad. Non-probability trying technique or convenience sampling was used. The structured questionnaire was developed and administered to 100 respondents. Before finalising questionnaire sentiment of adept panel was taken and it was followed by pilot study of 15 pupils. Data and information gathered through questionnaire were analyzed utilizing SPSS Software.
Assorted statistical trials like qis -square and fisher exact trial were performed to analyze Impact of Facebook on students'academic public presentation.
5.0 Hypothesis
H1: There is important association in academic public presentation among facebook users with different frequenceH2: There is important association for ownership of GPRS Phone and usage of facebook.6.0 Analysis and Interpretation
6.1 Most preferable societal networking sites
TinResponsesFacebook107 ( 40.1 % )LinkedIn5 ( 1.9 % )Chirrup13 ( 4.9 % )Orkut42 ( 15.7 % )YouTube41 ( 15.
4 % )Google+59 ( 22.1 % )Entire267 ( 100 % )Table 1To analyze most preferable sites among pupils we have asked multiple pick inquiries to respondents what is your most preferable societal networking site. Table 1 shows that 40.1 % respondent preferable face book, Google+ is followed by facebook. LinkedIn and chirrup are non preferred by pupils of ahmedabad.
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2 Time spent on FacebookTable 2 Time spent on Facebook& lt ; 30 min.30 min. to 1Hr1 hour to 2 hour& gt ; 2 hourEntireDay22217959Week16115335Fortnight10102Calendar month432110Entire43351513106Table 2Table 2 show the clip spent by pupils on facebook, it reported that pupils who used facebook by and large the logged In several clip or one time in a twenty-four hours and exhausted clip 1 hr or less than that largely. Very few pupils log in on facebook biweekly or monthly. So we can state that pupils use facebook often.
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3 Purpose of FacebookPurpose of FacebookResponsesKeeping in Touch with Friends93 ( 29.4 % )Looking Photos/Videos37 ( 11.7 % )Playing Games14 ( 4.4 % )Chew the fating69 ( 21.8 % )Applications20 ( 6.
3 % )Messaging43 ( 13.6 % )Communicating with Faculties21 ( 6.6 % )Making Academic treatment Group19 ( 6 % )Table 3Consequences of Table 3 shows that 29.4 % Students used facebook for maintaining touch with friends, 21.
8 % respondent used facebook for Chew the fating merely 6.6 % respondents used facebook for Communicating with modules and doing academic treatment so, bulk of pupils preferred to utilize face book for maintaining touch with friends, chew the fating and messaging. for Playing games, pass oning with modules and for academic treatment really less pupils preferable Facebook.
6.4 Hypothesis 1
H1: There is no important association in academic public presentation among facebook users with different frequenceTo look into association of academic public presentation among facebook users with different frequences chi-square trial of association were performed.TimePercentage& lt ; 30 Minutess30 proceedingss to 1 hr& gt ; 1 hrEntire& lt ; 60 Percentage1311832& gt ; =60 Percentage910827Entire22211659Table 6 Chi-square trialDegree of Freedom3Degree of Significant5 %Calculated Value0.2915Table Value7.8150From above tabular array we have found that deliberate value for chi-square was 0.2915 and table value at 5 % degree of important and 3 d.f was 7.
8150 which is greater than calculated value so, we have accepted Null Hypothesis Hence, there is no important association in academic public presentation among facebook users with different frequence.
6.5 Hypothesis 2
H2: There is no important association for ownership of GPRS Phone and usage of facebook.Some literature surveies found that debut of the Smartphone increased the use of the facebook.So to happen out the relationship between ownership of GPRS supported phone and usage of facebook, Fisher 's exact trial was used. Consequence of the trial shown in table below.ValuedfAsymp. Sig. ( 2-sided )Exact Sig. ( 2-sided )Pearson Chi-Square4.
718a1.030Continuity Correctionb2.5581.110Likelihood Ratio4.
0951.043Fisher 's Exact Test.062Linear-by-Linear Association4.6641.031N of Valid Casesb87To analyze association for ownership of GPRS phone and usage of Facebook Fisher 's exact trial was performed. P-value of fisher 's exact trial is 0.
062 which is greater than degree of significance value ( 0.05 ) so void hypothesis accepted Hence, There is no important association for ownership of GPRS phone and usage of Facebook.
6.6 Percept of Facebook
To analyze perceptual experience towards facebook whether facebook have any impact on academic public presentation of pupils we have asked several inquiries and asked respondents to rate harmonizing to their perceptual experience where 1 for strongly agree and 5 for strongly disagree.StatementsMean markFacebook influences my academic public presentation negatively, because they distract me from my surveies.2.86Using Facebook requires passing money and are wastage of clip and by this manner it will impact my academic life.2.96Addiction to Facebook is debatable issue that affects my academic life.
2.95I find it difficult concentrating on survey cognizing that I can play on-line games and see the site merely by logging into it3.08I compare my classs before I become engaged into the Facebook and after I became involved. I see a bead in my academic public presentation.3.11Facebook is personal/ social-canaˆYt be used for instruction.
3.01The use of Facebook is utile in higher educational establishments, because it is an effectual communicating application.2.49Group treatments can be arranged with my schoolmates utilizing Facebook.
2.42An assignment can be fixed with my lector through Facebook.2.84Facebook is helpful in my surveies because I can have proclamations from lectors and module.2.
77Facebook aid in my surveies because I can discourse my assignments with friends.2.52Using Facebook improves my interaction with schoolmates and lectors2.57I use Facebook to ease academic activities and co-ordinate with friends2.
50 Table 7Table 7 we found that pupils have impersonal sentiment for facebook is personal ca n't be used for instruction and because of facebook there academic public presentation is dropped. Rest of statement pupils are agree.
