Abstract: Black Berry Messenger chat facility is very popular in the process of communicating through text messages, pictures and videos, so that the process of communication in the interaction between users can be carried out actively in virtual world. In this study, it will be examined as to whether the Black Berry Messenger has a significant influence on academic achievement in SMK Health PGRI Denpasar. This study will show the effect of the BBM in the improvement of academic achievement, using quantitative methods by distributing questionnaires from a random sample of the student population of SMK health PGRI Denpasar. The correlation analysis uses the correlation coefficient Kendall's tau which managed to deliver the results that the BBM is very influential with the increase of academic achievement.

I Wayan Gede Narayana, “A Survey on Smart use of BBM and its Influence on Academic Achievement in SMK Health PGRI Denpasar” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 6(9), 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060941

@article{Narayana2015,
title = {A Survey on Smart use of BBM and its Influence on Academic Achievement in SMK Health PGRI Denpasar},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060941},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060941},
year = {2015},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {6},
number = {9},
author = {I Wayan Gede Narayana}
}