However, this study showed that time spent on Facebook did not have corelation with CGPA. A study by Kolek
and Saunders (2008) showed similar findings. There were no difference of CGPA achievement,similar finding was
shown by Bjerregaard (2010) in her study. She found there was no different between facebook users and drop in the
CGPA achievement. Her study involve subjects using the Facebook for more than 1 hourand those less than 1 hours
per day as non-users. In this study, we did not exclude the subjects with less than 1 hour spent on Facebook.
A study by Karpinski and Kirschner (2010) found that ‘more time spent on Facebook equals slightly lower
grades’. In Karpinski’s study the average Facebook user had a GPA of 3.0 - 3.5, while the non-user had a GPA of
3.50 – 4.00. The average Facebook user studied for 1-5 hours per week, while non-Facebook user would study 11 –
15 hours per week. The main finding was that a significant negative relationship exists between Facebook use and
academic performance. Facebook users reported lower mean GPAs and reported spending fewer hours per week
studying on average than non-Facebook users (Karpinski, 2009) Facebook users and non-Facebook users reported
comparable percentages of average daily internet use; however the nature of the internet activities was not