The Influence of Social Networking Sites on the...

THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON THE INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE 3rd year and 4th year EDUCATION STUDENTS AT ST. MARY’S COLLEGE, BAGANGA A Research Proposal Presented to the Faculty of St. Mary’s College Baganga, Davao Oreintal In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Basic Research By Jenelyn Orada Saint Mary’s College Baganga, Davao Oriental October 2012 ABSTRACT Social Networking Sites are increasingly popular nowadays. Many SNSdevelopers like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others are competing to give the best features in terms of socialization, interaction, privacy and even entertainment. It is not surprising that many people are hooked on with these sites since it is free and easily†¦show more content†¦It is evident that many students greatly rely on these sites in order to interact with their friends and other people whether they know them or not. Being dependent to these sites promotes online friendships which are not good since they might encounter people that are suspicious in behavior. These sites hinder face-to-face friendship but many students reason out that they use SNS in order to communicate conveniently with their faraway friends. What do these SNS possess to make the students keep on using them? Why do students upload photos, videos, post comments/messages on other profiles and play social games? What are the benefits and purpose of doing these activities? Why are social networking sites frequently used by students nowadays? The researcher goal is to address these questions and have an in-depth study with regards to those questions stated above. Students’ usage of social networking sites provides long-lasting insights to identity construction, social behavior and peer-to-peer interaction therefore studies such as this arises that found out the real perspective of students about social life. B. Conceptual Framework In general, online relationships contain much weaker ties than face-to-face relationships (Vitak, 2008). Social networking sites such as Facebook offer users a convenient method for maintaining a large number of weak ties. While maintenance of strong ties typically requires significant commitments of time and energy, weak ties maybe managed