ANALYZING THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE SECONDARY SCHOOL LEARNERS

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze does social media have a positive and negative impact for secondary school learners? For analyzing the impact of social media discourse, the researcher applies library research. Furthermore, to collect data the researcher classifies data into two types of data i.e. the primary data, secondary data, and the supporting data. The primary data are gained from some articles which elaborate positive and negative impact of utilizing social media. Then, the secondary data are gained from the previous studies. These data are crucial to gain for the comparative data. The last data are gathered from books, proceedings, and internet sources which support the argument of this research. The results show that social media truly have positive and negative impact for learners