Social Media Reaction Paper

Discussion The researchers have gathered the data and the results were as expected. All the respondents own a social media account and mostly everyone has a Facebook account, making Facebook the number one social media site accessed by the respondents. This is why Facebook earns the most number of dollars compared to other social media sites. Other social media sites used by the respondents, from mostly used to least used, are Twitter, Instagram, Viber, Snapchat, Tumblr and Youtube.

Almost all of the respondents always use their social media accounts, although this may sound negative for being online all the time instead of getting offline and doing other important things in the real world, most of the respondents’ reason why they use social

Other than the positive benefits of using social media like better communication, faster information and news gathering, and freedom of speech, there are also drawbacks from using these sites such as time consuming, less bonding with family, and bullying.

Social media has been affecting this world since the day it began to work. It has produced various benefits and issues along the way. One of the population that social media has been affecting is the college students. This study aimed to know the attitudes and perceptions toward social media of selected BS Psychology first year college students of De La Salle Lipa and has found out that almost everyone is an active user of different social media sites. The researchers have found out that social media sites are mostly used for communication, rather than to just waste time.

The respondents saw social media as helpful and very benefitting for them. Some of these benefits are better communication and faster gathering of information. Although there are also some flaws in the use of social media, such as, social media being really time consuming and bonding times with family members are lessened. However, in spite of these issues, all the respondents said that social media is helpful and 26 of the 30 respondents recommend the use of social media for studying

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