THE IMPACT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY TO FAMILIAL INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION OF GENERATION Z

This study aimed to find out the impact of modern technology to the familial interpersonal communication of the young generation, the Generation Z. The respondents of the study were teens who were born from 1995 and ends 2012. For this research, teens age 16 to 23 were the target age to serve as respondents of the present study. This consists of Junior and Senior Grade students from the ABM Track of San Pablo City DepEd and other secondary schools for the school year 2019-2020. Findings show that among the modern technology variables blog and email appear significantly related to the familial interpersonal communication variables such as verbal, written, nonverbal (positive and negative) and paraverbal both positive and negative too. These results indicate that both blog and email are used by the respondents in communicating with family. In terms of mobile phone, it appears to be significantly related to nonverbal and paraverbal in both and negative communication. This is linked to their responses that they use text messaging if they could not tell matters personally to messages whether it is good or bad news. They also have reservations of talking personally about things that are such confidential to them such as school problems or “heart matter”. Facebook found to be significantly related to all interpersonal communication variables. Facebook as the world largest social network used by many especially teens of any age. Facebook is the most popular social network used in the Philippines. This only shows that Facebook has captured the heart, mind and interest of people to communicate using this platform and leave behind the use of “real talk” or face-to-face communication. Because teens or adults can use Facebook in communicating with friend’s peers and most of all family anywhere else in the world. Twitter and Instagram also found to be significantly related to familial interpersonal communication variables except for written and paraverbal communication in the positive manner. However, Instagram is not significantly related to written communication and paraverbal (positive). Like Twitter and Instagram, both are social media platforms where one can chat, post or inform people of their day-to-day activities. Words that they can’t fully express in person to their families can be done by posting picture with caption in Instagram or message using Twitter account. Keywords: ABM Track Students, Generation Z, Modern Technology, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Blog, E-mail