The Total Number of Hours A Senior High School Student of Swiss Montessori School Spent A Day On Social Media
The Total Number of Hours A Senior High School Student of Swiss Montessori School Spent A Day On Social Media
The Total Number of Hours A Senior High School Student of Swiss Montessori School Spent A Day On Social Media
Introduction
Social Media has made our life quite easy and convenient and it keeps us
With the help of social media, there will be endless possibilities for every
everyone has a social media profile on social platforms nowadays. Almost all
peoples' lives are dependent on and influenced by social media. Social media
addiction. However, most people are concerned about how it keeps us away
from reality, and living through the virtual communication only that leads us to a
health, the more we use social media it consumes our time to look at those fake
this digital world, people look at their smartphones, use them for some time
within a few minutes of waking up, just a few minutes or less than a minute
before sleeping, and also in between the time of waking and sleeping. They are
using social media almost every time. While doing various activities throughout
the day, updating status, or posting activities. This increasing amount of time
spent on smartphones browsing and scrolling through social media has become
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According to a study conducted in 2019 by Ms. Aachal Taywade and Dr.
helpful to make plans for prevention of adolescents from future mental illnesses
and healthily deal with their life.” In one research, smartphone addiction was
2017). Another research explains that smartphone addiction disturbs one’s sleep
usage. Another reason for this may be that students who spend more time on
social media may have difficulty balancing their online activities and their
academic preparation. Since students tend to spend more time on social media
than educational purposes; this tends to cause distraction from the learning
Hettiarachchi, 2014).
eventually lose their capability to connect or be involved socially the way people
do when face-to-face. This is even true with video call meetings and conferences
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Therefore, researchers were curious to find the total number of hours
spent using social media and its effects on the senior high school students of
Swiss Montessori School. The present study was conducted to know the hours
on social media the students spent and to give awareness on how these affect
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Statement of the Problem
This study was aimed to determine the total number of hours a senior high
school student of Swiss Montessori School spent a day using social media
platforms.
a. Age
b. Gender
3. How does the time spent on social media affect the students’ mindset?
5. What are the influences of using social media in students’ daily lives?
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Conceptual Framework
Profile of the
respondents in terms of:
a. Age
b. Gender
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FIGURE I. Conceptual Paradigm of the Study
The figure above shows the conceptual paradigm of the study. On the first
box, the researchers presented the statement of the problem with the study. This
includes the profile of the respondents according to their age and gender. It also
includes the time spent on social media, which can either have a positive or
negative effect on the students' mindsets. Also considered is the impact of social
factors on their academic performance. The second box indicates the processes
involves the conduct of the study, these includes the survey and the analysis of
data through questionnaire. The third box shows the output of which is the time
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Research Hypothesis
The Figure II. above shows the relationship of the variables, which shown
above that the number of hours spent on social media has something to do with
internet and scrolling through media we tend to neglect or make excuses for
doing our school works so it can result to a poor academic performance affected
by too many hours using social media; unproductivity is also related because we
media, we forgot to do the most important task of the day; poor behavior to some
teens are also connected by the usage of social media, we are influenced to
some of the media we view and we project that behavior sometimes such as a
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violent behavior we can see from social media we can be trigger by that; socially
unskillful is also one related to the usage of social media, the longer time we
spent on social media the more we disconnect to the real world, we don’t
socialize more often that leads to detracting to face to face interactions, lack of
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Importance of the Study
Students needs to be aware of how the long hours spent using social
media can impact their lives, academic performances, and even their mindsets,
for them to have the proper social media etiquette, be informed of its harmful
effects and use it wisely. This study is carefully planned to know the total number
of hours a Senior High School Student of Swiss Montessori School Spent a day
on Social Media.
Therefore, this study is deemed significant to the following persons for the
following reasons:
● To the STUDENTS- this study will give them an idea of the effects of long
spending time on social media and the right way of using it for good
reasons.
● To the SOCIAL MEDIA ENTHUSIASTS- the result of this study will help
them to be aware of the possible negative effects of too much usage and
● To the PARENTS- this study will serve as a guide for them to understand
the impacts of too many hours on social media on their child’s social life.
● To the FUTURE RESEARCHERS- with the help of this research, this will
provide baseline data needed for future research and studies related to
this one.
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Scope and Limitations of the Study
This research paper entitled “The Total Number Of Hours a Senior High
School Student Of Swiss Montessori School Spent a Day On Social Media” aims
to determine the total number of hours a senior high school student of Swiss
Montessori School spent a day using social media platforms as well as for the
students to be aware of how the long hours spent using social media can impact
their lives, academic performances, and even their mindsets, be informed of its
harmful effects and to use it wisely. As we are browsing the social media
platforms, its either we get a positive or negative effects of it. It might benefit us
or not depends on how we properly use it and as long as how we follow the
However, this research does not seek to include and discuss about the
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Definition of Terms
To understand and clarify the terms used in the study, the following are
hereby defined:
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Information. This is what the students consume and gained from using social
medias, they gain information from sites that can be useful for them.
Instagram. This is a social media platform students are engaged in wherein
they share photos and videos.
Internet. This is a network that provides the students the information they
need and allows them to connect to people in distance.
Interpersonal Communication. The interaction and communication in
personal between more than two person.
Mindset. This is the set and fixed attitude that are already wired in the
student’s brain.
Online. A term commonly referred as being connected to the internet or a
server; being available.
Platform. This is an operating system designed for the users of a social
media applications that enables them to use media.
Procrastination. This is the habit of some of the students that they made
excuses for doing a task and putting it off, delaying or postponing that may
result in a habit of procrastinating.
Smartphones. This is a type of cellphones that allows the students to
multitask things, call or messaging, browsing the internet, a device that they
use on their online classes that supports the modern software, also functions
similarly to a computer that has internet access and commonly a touch
screen.
Social Media. This is the technology that the students spends a lot of time
with and this is what the students use to create and share ideas, information,
and to express their emotions and opinions through virtual.
Social Media Algorithms. This is what runs a social media in order for it to
understand and remembers a users’ usage and to provide a customize social
media experience; such as the things we like and shares, now the social
media will show us more often the things we like based on our interests.
Social Media Profile. It is a made account in social platforms that enables its
users to showcase their identity and shares their latest status and updates.
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Status. This is the status updates posted or published by a user to interact
with the audience by sharing the latest happenings through pictures or videos
even a written one.
Technology. This serves as a tool for the students in some things that is
using a scientific knowledge for making things in their daily lives convenient
and fast to accomplished.
TikTok. This is a social platform and a trend these days that most of the
teens are engaged in using this to create short clips of videos and share it.
Trending. This is the current popular or hot in the internet, and widely
discussed on websites that are sometimes imitated by others, they copy or
make versions of their own.
Twitter. A social platform that allows the users to post anytime whats
happening currently, this is where you can also be updated about the latest
trends and viral hashtags; a great platform for sharing ideas and connecting
with people.
Unproductive. This is a behavior of some students being ineffective and
inefficient, doesn’t produce any results or made progress of some students
as a result of too much hours spent on social media.
User. A term used for the people who has an account on social media
platforms and uses it.
Viral. This is the media that involves the photos and videos that contains
information and is widely discussed and shared on internet.
Virtual Communication. This is the interaction between people without having
a face to face meeting, it is either through webinars or an online video
callings.
Websites. These are the pages or sites that the students usually visit to look
for information and interests.
YouTube. This is a social platform that allows the users to share online
videos or they commonly referred to as “vlogs” or short for video logs. This is
also a most visited sites for some students when they watch videos of the
lessons they want to understand furthermore.
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CHAPTER II
This chapter examines the literature and research relevant to the hours spent
by students using social media as well as its impact to their life, behavior and
academic performances.
The following are the research literature that served as the basis in the
current research. This presents some local and foreign research conducted
LOCAL
The latest research (Zipagan, 2022) show that our society has been
influenced by social media. It has become an important part of our everyday lives;
from trends to news, we utilize social media to share our thoughts and express
nations; we are also one of the countries that is actively involved in promoting our
discovered that senior high students' study habits are influenced by their time
management, study environment, and usage of social media, and that these
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In the study of De Jesus et al., (2017), Social networking sites are defined as
places where you may create public or semi-public accounts within a framework
with your selected security settings. These social networking sites are well-
networks and web blogs are clearly the most popular sites among young people.
entitled: ‘’Social Networking Sites and It’s Effects to Social Well- being of College
of the most popular web-based activities in the Philippines, with Filipinos being
conveniently with the use of social media. Filipinos like to utilize social media
because it is more efficient. Social networking may be the most efficient and
quick way to communicate with others. Students, too, utilize social media to do
the majority of their schoolwork. Social media has a deeper importance than
platforms such as Facebook have been around for decades. Social media
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interactive discourse. One of the most significant benefits is the online exchange
FOREIGN
and improper activities such as pointless talking and excessive online surfing.
Based on the above statement, we may conclude that social media can have a
Furthermore, Sheldon (2008) stated that with such a huge growth in the
number of teenagers using social media throughout the world, a lot of worries
about the unknown effects of social media on many parts of human existence. It
is therefore critical to monitor the impact of social media on their academic study
habits, which is a critical activity for them, particularly in the life of a student.
Students that spend too much time on social media and less time studying
their studies, on the other hand, have lower point grade point averages. Few
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According to (Osharive, 2015), in a research done at the University of Lagos
in Nigeria, social media has both beneficial and bad impacts on teens, mainly
Distracting students from their academic work, consuming the majority of their
family, friends, and their social circle .Positive effects, on the other hand, such as
class material, or using social networking sites to keep in touch when a student
Olubiyi (2012) observed that today's students are so involved in social media
that they are online about 24 hours a day. Even in classrooms and lecture halls,
some students have been caught pinging or Facebooking while lectures are
taking place. Times that should have been spent studying, doing scholarly
research, and creating have been squandered by the need to meet new people
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter presents and discusses theories that are applicable to our study.
These theories helps explain the concept behind the research and establish the
This research was based on the theory The Uses and Gratification Theory,
this is an approach to understanding why and how people actively seek out
specific media to satisfy specific needs and was developed by Katz, Blumler, and
Gurevitch in the year 1974 However, McQuail (2010) claims that the hypothesis
may be dated back to when scholars began exploring why individuals listen in the
early 1940s to famous radio shows and why they read newspapers every day. As
a result, the hypothesis arose in response to the demand for explanation to why
individuals utilize particular media and what they get from them Mass The U & G
solutions regarding why individuals utilize specific media and what they are
This study was guided by the Social Learning Theory, an individual's local
to say that inappropriate conduct and replies repeated, viewed as genuine, one-
of-a-kind, deliberate, and Outstanding people are more likely to learn. The
in the environment, such as the Family, school, biological factors, and others all
have a role. In this section, The social conditions that are the most prevalent in
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social education are the social situations that are the most common in social
Theory, wherein this theory state that media technology shapes how we as
individuals in a society think, feel, act, and how the society operates as we move
from one technological age to another. Marshall Mcluhan established the idea in
1962. It describes how people learn and grow because of the signals they
receive through the present system, they feel and think the way we do
to listen and develop your hearing ability Television stimulates both the auditory
and visual senses. Then we transfer We want to bring those honed senses back
into our daily life. The medium consists of then comes our message. People must
listen in order to participate in social media, which has been made possible by
rising technology and frequently engaged People then interpret the social media
messages that are delivered to them in their own way in ordinary life. According
civilization changes. The senses required to operate the new technology were
quickly altered. According to the theory that society will alter and adapt to each
straightforward cause and effect relationship between the introduction and the
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conclusion as a result of new technology and changes in society's way of thinking,
Theory, In 1960, Joseph Klapper at Colombia University, was worried that the
referred to as phenominist theory. With this idea, he believed that media rarely
has direct impacts and is relatively impotent when compared to other forms of
standing, group participation, firmly held beliefs, education, and so on. According
to Klapper's theory, media does not normally serve as a necessary and sufficient
cause of audience effects, but rather acts among and via a nexus of mediating
the media, such as television, will establish and promote a more consistent
attitude about how the media represents a version of reality against what is
television influences their attitude. Gerbner regards television as the world itself,
socialization agent that may educate and raise public awareness, and it can also
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research Design
with specific survey techniques in gathering the data from the questionnaire to be
employed to know the profile of the respondents in terms of the social media
platforms they use, the time they spent using social media, how it affects their
academic performances, mindset, and its impact to their daily usage of social
media. Further, the research is descriptive design since the research is primarily
done to determine the total number of hours a senior high school student of
Population
This study involves 25 senior high school students from Swiss Montessori
School, Inc. who will answer the questionnaires in the academic year 2021-2022.
The subjects’ age ranged from 16-19 years old. There were more female than
male respondents.
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Sampling Method
There are two (2) strands of Senior High School students at Swiss
So, for a total of 118 students, the researchers randomly selects 25 respondents
as sample size of each selection and the respondents of the study will answer
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Data Collection Procedure
The survey questionnaire was given to Senior High School students who
were enrolled for the S.Y. 2021- 2022. The researchers personally administered
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CHAPTER IV
This chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of the data gathered
out of the questions responded by the selected Senior High School students of
Swiss Montessori School for school year 2021-2022. The data are presented in
TOTAL 25 100%
As the Table 1.1 shows the profile of the respondents in terms of age. It is
obvious above that the 18 and 19 years old (64%) respondents are more than
those of 16 and 17 years of ages (36%). It can be concluded that the Senior High
School Students are commonly teenagers who is engaged in using social medias.
The result of the present research is congruent with the article of Newport
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2021 by Common Sense Media on social media’s effects on teens, about half of
the 1,500 young people surveyed said social media is very important for them in
order to get support and advice, feel less alone, and express themselves
creatively, as well as for staying in touch friends and family while social distancing.
And 43 percent said that using social media makes them feel better when they
are depressed, stressed, or anxious. Among LGBTQ youth, 52 percent said social
media helps them feel better when they are experiencing these difficult emotions.
Male 6 24%
Female 19 76%
TOTAL 25 100%
The Table 1.2 above shows the gender of the respondents in the study
and resulted that there were more female (76%) respondents than the male (24%)
were more female respondents using social media than male respondents. An
terms of gender, men are online to search for information, women use the
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platforms predominantly to connect with people. Studies also show that men
open social media accounts to network and form new relationships, and women
FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE
The Table 2 above shows the total number of hours a spent a day using
social media, which shown above that the 18 or 72% of the students spent 1-9
hours a day using social media while the other 7 or 28% spent a total of 10 hours
and more on social media. In terms of sleep hours the students get, the 25 or
100% got a 1-9 hours of sleep a day. While the hours of spent outdoors
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disconnected, almost all the students are spending 1-9 hours a day outdoors
while the 4% of the respondents spent 10 hours and more outdoors. As we can
conclude from the result, the majority of the student spent a lot of time being
online on medias, in terms of sleeping all of the students’ get enough time of
sleep while being disconnected majority of them spent a lot of time outdoors. A
study by Nature Communications (2022) has shown that the use of social media
at a young age can have an impact on a teen's life at a later stage. The study
was conducted on more than 72,000 people, taking into consideration how much
time they spend on social media on a typical day. According to the study, 16 to
21 year olds who claimed to use social media for more than seven hours per day
reported lower life satisfaction than those who used it for up to three hours daily.
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Table 3. The effect of using social media to the students’ mindset
FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE
The Table 3 above shows the effects of using social media to the students’
mindset. Wherein we can notice the lower percentage of social media influencing
a students’ behavior and self comparing thoughts (16%), in terms of mood, there
are same rate of 6 (24%) that are not affecting their mood and still unsure. In
lower rate of 28% that are affected by these negative emotions due to social
media usage. It can be concluded that social media usage has really an effect to
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students’ mindsets that can be also bothersome since it was affecting us
individual spent on social media the more likely they were to experience a
time spent using social media and the quality of that user’s relationships,
meaning that the more time a person spent on social media the more likely their
The top three responses for negative effects of social media use on emotions
were frustration, depression, and social comparison. The top three responses for
distraction, irritation, and decreased quality time with their significant other in
offline settings.
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Table 4. Impact of social media to the students’ academic performances
FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE
The Table 4 above shows the impact of social media to the students’
agreed that social media is a distraction in studying and only leads them to
achievement of low grades, there are 11 (44%) that agreed upon it. As a
conclusion, social media is also a factor for the students in focusing in studies,
productivity and achievement of good grades. As for what Belesti and Debela
usage of social media, they showed that most students preferred to use
Facebook and YouTube to follow their friends posting and to watch video
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contents of different programs respectively. Furthermore, the data output
revealed that students spent an average of 6.10 hours and 7.24 hours per day in
using different social media accounts than dealing with studying their academic
subject matters.
Does 25 0 0 100% 0% 0%
social
media
make it
convenient
for you to
communic
ate with
people in
distance
with you?
the students’ daily lives. As for the result, 100% of the students find it convenient
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for them to use social media as a means of communication to those in distant
with them, while majority of the 88% find it sometimes as too distracting in terms
of doing their daily tasks. In terms of socializing and life outdoors there is a 76%
of the respondents that sometimes find social media as a hindrance for them to
socialize outside and live life outdoors. As to conclude, social media could be
very useful as well for us in communication, but the abusive and too much use of
it affects our life, it keeps us away from our goal of finishing a daily chores or
tasks even our life outside it prevents us to socialize. An article written by Eiland
(2016) under the odyssey online states that students attempt to fully concentrate
and study, our phones are always by our sides, distracting us and breaking our
motivation. Even if we turn off our phones, our minds always have a thousand
tabs open, as we’re simultaneously thinking about what to eat for dinner, the test
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CHAPTER V
Conclusions
1. It may be assumed that Senior High School Students are typically teens that
use social media. It may be concluded that female respondents utilized social
2. The 18 , or 72 %, spent 1-9 hours every day on social media, while the other 7,
that the majority of the students spent a lot of time online on medias, and in
terms of sleeping, all of the students got adequate sleep while being offline, and
communication, but its abusive and excessive usage impacts our lives, keeping
us away from our aim of completing daily chores or duties, and even our life
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Recommendations
findings:
1. Students should be mindful of using social media and learn the different
2. Students should be aware of the time they spent using social medias and limit
the usage since it was stated in the result that majority spent 1-9 hours of using
social media.
4. Students should make time for outdoor activities, that will balance their social
5. Students should avoid consuming of too much social contents that affects their
6. Since the mental health of the students are also a responsibility of the parents,
they should be informed and aware on the too much usage of social media to
their child’s emotions, academic life and physical health. Furthermore, they
should also guide their children in surfing internet, setting time limits if possible,
8. Further researches about this topic should be done to determine the different
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9. A follow study in this particular topic should be made in the same school to
determine the progress of the students progress and knowledge in utilizing social
medias.
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APPENDIX A
Survey for The total number of hours a Senior high school student of Swiss
I.
1. Name:
(First name, Middle name, Last name)
____________________________________________
2. Grade/Strand
⎕ Grade 11 HUMSS
⎕ Grade 11 ABM
⎕ Grade 12 HUMSS
⎕ Grade 12 ABM
3. Age
⎕ 16 years old
⎕ 17 years old
⎕ 18 years old
⎕ 19 years old
4. Gender
⎕ Male
⎕ Female
II.
5. How many hours do you spent a day using social media (social platforms, this
could be Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) * *if less than an hour/more than the
choices below, please kindly indicate the minutes of usage below on the
underlined "other".
⎕ 1-3 hours/day
⎕ 4-6 hours/day
⎕ 7-9 hours/day
⎕ 10-12 hours/day
⎕ 13 hours/day or more.
⎕ Other:____________
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6. How many hours of sleep do you usually get every night? * *if less than an
hour/more than the choices below, please kindly indicate the minutes of usage
below on the underlined "other”
⎕ 1-3 hours
⎕ 4-6 hours
⎕ 7-9 hours
⎕ 10-12 hours
⎕ 13 hours or more
⎕ Other: ___________
7. How many hours do you think are you spending outdoors, not using any
technology or medias? * *if less than an hour/more than the choices below,
please kindly indicate the minutes of usage below on the underlined "other"
⎕ 1-3 hours
⎕ 4-6 hours
⎕ 7-9 hours
⎕ 10-12 hours
⎕ 13 hours or more
⎕ Other: __________
III.
8. Does the usage of social media influenced you an inappropriate behaviors like
self comparing thoughts, self ruminating, envy, or hating oneself?
⎕ Yes
⎕ No
⎕ Maybe
9. Does the things and stuffs you see online affects your mood or shifts your
mood instantly from good to bad mood, that triggered by what you see?
⎕ Yes
⎕ No
⎕ Maybe
10. Does the longer time of spending on social media gives you feelings of
uncomfortable like loneliness, depressed, alone and isolated?
⎕ Yes
⎕ No
⎕ Maybe
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IV.
11. Social media usage distracts you from studying and focusing on your classes
because of the countless and unending alerts of notifications from tagged to likes.
⎕ Agree
⎕ Disagree
⎕ Undecided
12. A long time spent on social media sites made students to put off tasks and
make excuses not to do school works
⎕ Agree
⎕ Disagree
⎕ Undecided
13. Social media indulgence leads to poor academic performance that will lead to
achieving low grades
⎕ Agree
⎕ Disagree
⎕ Undecided
V.
14. Does social media make it convenient for you to communicate with people in
distance with you?
⎕ Always
⎕ Sometimes
⎕ Never
15. Does social media affects your important tasks of the day, like putting it off
just to use social media, not doing it at all?
⎕ Always
⎕ Sometimes
⎕ Never
16. Does the too much usage of social medias, prevent you to spend time
outdoors to socialize?
⎕ Always
⎕ Sometimes
⎕ Never
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