Internet Addiction
What is an Internet? According to wikipedia, the internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. There are a lot of uses of Internet. The common uses of the internet are to communicate and socialize, to gain information, learn brand new stuffs, to be able to do their work, gain income and make their own business. To be honest, there are much more stuffs that can be done by using Internet, but that is not the topic for the day. The topic of the day for us to gain sight in is regarding 'Internet Addiction'.
According to wikipedia, Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) is defined as internet overuse, problematic computer use or pathological computer use that interferes with daily life. In this digital era, everything around us are all digital and internet plays a big role in our life. Social network websites such as Facebook, are one of the most used communication medium that are dominating most of our lives. Statistics in Facebook shows that more than 400 million active users are using Facebook. According to digitizor.com, there are at least 125 million login for at least once almost daily which makes average of these 125 millions users spend 4 minutes on Facebook everyday. In this 'Cyber World', people are starting to drift away from important activities, such as spending time with their family, socializing, working, exercising and worry about their health concerns. This phenomenon has encouraged us to carry out a research regarding internet addiction on students of Faculty of Creative Multimedia in Multimedia University, Cyberjaya. The main objective of this research is to find out regarding the internet addiction among the students in Faculty of Creative Multimedia, MMU, Cyberjaya. By having this research, we will be able to find out wether internet addiction has any advantages or disadvantages among the students. Questionnaire, observation and interviews are the main source that will be used to carry out the research. The results of this research will be analyzed and studied regarding the internet addiction among the students. Secondary resources will be mainly books, newspaper articles, and sources from the internet.
i will at least spend 1 hour on facebook everyday.. for me,this is a way of gaining information and updates, of course,the point of it is to socialize...what an addiction. -hong ka-
ReplyDeleteI think i spent more than 3 hours in front of the computer, surfing the internet, reading blogs, logging into my facebook. I can say that I'm an internet addict as well. -ikhwan-
ReplyDeletein this modern world,spending how many hours in front of the computer isn't a big problem. because we work with computer,learn from computer,almost any information can be easily get from computer,internet. what im afraid is those kid and teenage who addicted to gaming,forget bout d days n nights,even eat n bath. that is the bad part. -hong ka-
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