Significance of the Study

The significance point of this study is to explore the relationships between

Facebook use and academic performance. This study investigate the specific ways in

which Facebook use could affect students’ performance in their social lives by asking

participants about factors including: extra curriculum activities, study habits, student’s

perceptions towards studies and Facebook use, procrastination and distraction

occurred by Facebook engagement. Also most of the research has been conducted on

the high school and fresh college students, very few studies were on Master’s degree

students.

The unique point of this research is considering the social variables (extra

curriculum activities and student’s attitude towards studies) and their effect on academic

performance.

Definition of terms

Social Media: they are forms of electronic communication which facilitate interactive

base on certain interests. Social media include web and mobile technology. Boyd &

Ellison (2008) defined Social Media as a group of internet based application that allows

the creation and exchange of user generated content.

Social Networking: the use of internet to make information about yourself available to

other people especially people you share an interest with to send messages to them.

Facebook: simply Facebook is a most popular free social networking website that

allows users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in

touch with friends, family and colleagues.

Computer Mediated Communication: In short CMC refers to human communication

via computer and includes many different forms of synchronous, asynchronous or real-

time interaction that humans have with each other using computers as tools to

exchange text, images, audio and video.

Elomake: Elomake is Finnish language word; it means E-form (Electronic Form).

Elomake is an online form generator utility which allow user to create, manage and

publish electronic questionnaire form online.

Drop-down list: In computer sciences it is called graphical user interface (GUI) control

element which allows user to choose one value from a list.

Radio Button: A radio button is also graphical user interface element that allows the

user to choose only one option among the two or more predefined set of options.

Comment Box: It is used to collect participants’ opinions. A comment box let website

visitors send in their comments via an online form. A user can make the text fields of a

comment box optional or required.

MySpace: MySpace drives social interaction by providing a highly personalized

experience around entertainment and connecting people to the music, celebrities, TV,

movies, and games that they love.

Twitter: A social network service that allows users to send and read short messages

and posts each other’s walls these messages is called tweets.

LinkedIn: An online social networking site which has been designed particularly for the

professionals from any field, that they commercialize their profession sand abilities.

YouTube: YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally

created videos.