Abstract In the past few years, ways and methods of communication have improved over the years and social networking sites are on the rise. Why do people go to social networking sites? Does going to social networking sites affect our studies? If yes, then do people know about it? Also, if yes, then why do people still go to social networking sites? As such, our research project aims to investigate if RI Year 2 students’ academic performances have dropped due to going to social networking sites, more specifically, Facebook games and to evaluate the degree of addiction to Facebook, the games that they are addicted to and why Facebook is addictive. Through a social survey, reasonable conclusions were drawn. The results revealed that Facebook games cause a decline in academic performance and Mousehunt was the main game in Facebook that pupils played but Facebook games were not the sole reason that their academic performance had declined.
In the past few years, ways and methods of communication have improved over the years and social networking sites are on the rise. Why do people go to social networking sites? Does going to social networking sites affect our studies? If yes, then do people know about it? Also, if yes, then why do people still go to social networking sites? As such, our research project aims to investigate if RI Year 2 students’ academic performances have dropped due to going to social networking sites, more specifically, Facebook games and to evaluate the degree of addiction to Facebook, the games that they are addicted to and why Facebook is addictive. Through a social survey, reasonable conclusions were drawn. The results revealed that Facebook games cause a decline in academic performance and Mousehunt was the main game in Facebook that pupils played but Facebook games were not the sole reason that their academic performance had declined.