Pasek et al. (2009) conducted a study to show a reverse in the negative relationship between Facebook and
academic achievement done by Karpinski(2009) that had generated a great deal of media attention. Pasek et al
(2009) suggested that facebook users were no more or less lightly to get good grade than non-users. Study by Pasek
et al.(2009) was a more thorough. Three different samplings were done; the first study was a cross-sectional study
on first year students from University of Illinois in Chicago, and thesecondstudy involved the National Annenberg
Survey of Youth (NASY) where a random digit dialing method was used on 14 to 22 year olds with parental
permission. The third study in 2008 was a longitudinal study.Involvingthe same 415 respondents from the second
study and 835 new respondents. For all these three studies, age, gender, race/ethnicity and socio-economic status
were controlled. The first sample did not show a significant relationship between Facebook and GPA (Pearson’s
r=0.10, p=0.746). However, the NASY cross sectional studies showed a significant positive correlation without
controls (Pearson’s r=0.122, p= 0.002) but the NASY studiesshowed a negative correlation (Pearson’s r=-0.148, p=
0.010). Hence, the results of these studies generally suggest that there is no negative relationship between Facebook
use and academic performance