The use of social networking and its impact to the personal lives of selected employees of De La Salle Health Sciences Institute

The correlation method was used in the analysis and interpretation of the result in the study. Out of 220 non-teaching staff, 202 participated as respondents. A self-made questionnaire was used to gather data. The data obtained was treated using the following statistical tools: mean, standard deviation, percentage, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient. Results showed that (1) most of the respondents are 18 to 27 years old, female, married, regular employees, have two (2) to three (3) social networking sites that they access from 30 minutes to less than one (1) hour a day; (2) the respondents found social networking as useful to a moderate extent to their personal lives; (3) the respondents found social networking has a low negative impact to their personal lives; (4) the use of social networking sites of the respondents is the same regardless of their age, gender, civil status, employment status, and number of visits of social networking sites in a day but differs in terms of the number of social networking sites being maintained and length of use of social networking sites; (5) the impact of social networking to respondents is the same regardless of their age, gender, civil status, employment status and number of visits of social networking sites in a day but differs in terms of the number of social networking sites being maintained and length of use of social networking sites; (6) the result revealed that the use of social networking of selected employees of De La Salle Health Sciences Institute has a moderate positive relationship to the personal lives of the respondents