Summary: The Impact Of Social Media On Students

Miller, Costa, Haynes, McDonald, Nicolescu, Sinanan, Syper, Venkatraman, and Wang(2016) define social media as a medium of socialization,not just a means of communication. Furthermore, social media is a way that helps many individuals feels just as they belong to a society. The developing measurement of the utilization of social media among teenagers today can't be over emphasized. Throughout the years, the popularity of social media to the students has become more and more rampant. Most of the students used social media to make connection not only on campus,but also outside of the school premises. And because of the increasing popularity of social media, professors and economists are addressing whether the grades of students are being affected

Rouis, Limayem,and Sangari(2011) focused on the relationship between Facebook and its impact to the academic achievement of students. The overall findings of their study revealed that 15% of Facebook usage has an impact to the students' academic achievement. Although it is not that high, this percentage must be recognized. However, their study also proposed that Facebook has a positive impact to students when it comes to satisfaction, because through this kind of platform they can communicate and get updates to their friends and family. On the other hand, Acheaw and Larson(2015) proposed that Facebook has the highest percentage when it comes to social media usage with an average of 66.4%. Moreover, about 80.1% of their respondents answered that the usage of social media affects their academic work negatively. This study of Achaew and Larson(2015) confirm Choney's(2010) and Enriquez's(2010) who believed that social media really had a negative effect to the academic performance of students. Choney(2010) says that a Facebook user has an average "GPA of 3.06,while the non users have an average GPA of 3.82". The said studies strongly proposed the different effects of the time spent on Facebook to the academic performance of

Mollette, Moran, and Dunleavy (2011) defines twitter as a form of micro-blogging that allow users to send and receive short public messages called tweets. Most of the teachers believe that social media like twitter is one of the reasons why pupils get poor grades (Bloxham,2010). There are about 6.2% students who says that Twitter is their favorite social media site (Acheaw and Larson, 2015). According to Junco, Heibergert, and Loken(2010), Twitter can be an educational tool that may let students as well as teachers to engage and mobilize into a more active and participatory in class. Furthermore, a study of Alakloby(2017) finds that 83% of the students believe that Twitter is beneficial with regards to enhancing their communication skills and collaboration with teachers. However, 37% of the students says that Twitter can sometimes be a distraction in their learning process (Alakloby,2017).

YouTube is another form of social media site that gains billions of users. According to Mehmood and Taswir(2013), Youtube is one of the social networking sites that students commonly used when it comes to academic purposes. Monkhouse and Forbes(2015) claimed that YouTube can be beneficial to students because it can be a teaching tool that offers audio- visual resource in learning. YouTube offers many educational videos that can help to improve the students' academic