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__BACKGROUND OF THE REPORT (INTRODUCTION) __

Nowadays, teenagers seems to be very close with the technology. Most frequently used technology is the internet as through the internet, we can get any information within a second. The way we communicate with friends from all over the world will be minimized as it took not much time in sending any news through emails or just saying 'hi' through the messenger application besides using the other technology such as telephone.

The university students also cannot get rid from using the well known world wide technology which is internet, as there are wireless internet facility provided for them at the hostel and also computers with the internet access in the computer labs. They will use this facility during the class either with permission or without permission from the lecturers or the lab instructor.

Our group have decided to focus our research on the usage of the internet during the class especially during the lab sessions. This is because of the existence of the computer and also internet facility in the Center of Modern Language and Human Sciences (CMLHS) labs and Faculty of Computer Sciences (FSK) labs.

The research is about the misuse of the internet facility which is provided by the university for the students supposedly for searching the information or the study materials. However, the students are using this facility for their own stuff such as updating their social networking sites such as Facebook or Myspace, downloading the songs or even chatting with their friends through Yahoo Messenger or Skype.

__LITERATURE REVIEW (EFFECTS) __

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**GRID OF COMMON POINTS** Research Question: What are the effects of surfing internet? Possible Answers: The effects of surfing internet are displacing valuable time with family and friends; effect the academic achievement, financial problems, and having low social skills and confidence. ~students with personalities characterized by dependence, shyness, depression and low self-esteem had a high tendency to become addicted. || ~Internet provides a new communication medium that enables access to vast amounts of information across a wide variety of topics ~Anecdotal and empirical evidence shows growing problems of Internet related harassment, stalking, and pornography. ~high school students displayed problematic consequences of Internet dependence, for example skipping meals, losing sleep and study time, increasing financial costs for on-line activity, and rearranging daily routines or even neglecting studies to spend more time online. ~reduced the time spent with family and friends while increasing time in front of their computers ~Kandell (1998) found that the Internet can be used to enhance developmental needs and thus obtain and maintain meaningful interpersonal relationships and intimacy. ~Kandell (1998), Lin and Tsai (2002) and Chou and Hsiao (2000), that both the addict <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">and non-addict groups saw the Internet as positively influencing their relationships with friends/schoolmates || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~face-to-face contact promotes the development of rapport and thereby individuals that use the internet excessively will lack these necessary social skills || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~Internet use can displace <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">valuable time that people spend with family and friends, which leads to smaller social circles and higher levels of loneliness, stress, and depressive symptoms (Nie, Hillygus, & Erbring, 2002). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~The consequences of excessive usage have been documented as neglect of academic, work, and domestic responsibilities, disruption of relationships, social isolation, and financial problems (Egger & Rauterberg, 1996; Griffiths, 2000; Young, 1996). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~research indicates that access, anonymity, and autonomy are the aspects of online communications that aid in the surfacing of psychopathology when the individual is offline (Suler, 2004). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~some psychologists believe that traumatic experiences tend to cause certain people to gravitate towards excessive Internet usage. Therefore, it is believed that these excessive behaviors actually function to reduce anxiety as a strategy to manage stress (Hardie & Tee, 2007). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~Socially inhibited individuals, as the evidence suggests, tend to be lonely, lack necessary social skills to form and develop close <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">interpersonal relationships, and harbor negative perceptions of others (Wittenberg & Reis, 1986). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~social problem solving <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">and empathy are less developed in socially inhibited people (Bengtsgard & Bohlin, 2001). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~displacement of strong ties because the quality of online relationships are lower than that of face-to-face relationships <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~individuals that use the internet excessively rate themselves as being more depressed and socially <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">inhibited <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~excessive Internet usage demonstrate higher emotional loneliness, or lack of a truly intimate tie, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~lack of a network of social relationships with peers, || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">& Furedi, 2001), excessive amounts of time spent online, compulsive use of the Internet, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">difficulty in managing the time spent on the Internet, feeling that the world outside <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">of the Internet is boring, becoming irritated if disturbed <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~increased loneliness and depression (Nalwa & Anand, 2003; Whang, Lee, & Chang, 2003). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~others have described a cognitivebehavioral model (Davis, 2001) where Internet addiction may result when some psychological factor causes an individual to be vulnerable to dependence on new online content. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~Students who use the Internet excessively are also very likely to favor online activities over sleep, and in at least one study, only sleep patterns distinguished high users from low users (Anderson, 2001). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~students become so involved with using the Internet that <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">they miss class or skip exams, even when they know they might fail their classes (Chou, 2001; Tsai & Lin, 2003). || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~ Dating anxiety, defined as anxiety felt over initiating or maintaining a romantic liaison, is correlated with such states as loneliness, depression and substance dependence (Glickman & La Greca, 2004) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~Research has shown a positive correlation between problematic Internet use and shyness, loneliness and avoiding social relations <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~individuals with a high level of loneliness having low self esteem and being pessimistic in social relations <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~difficulty in establishing eye contact, reluctance to speak, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">sweating in proximity to the opposite sex and blushing, impede genuine romantic relationships <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~Excessive use of the Internet may cause students to experience significant academic problems, eventually resulting in poor grades, academic probation and even expulsion from universities (Chou & Hsiao, 2000;Wainer et al., 2008). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The findings of the research reveal that students forming dating relationships online have a significantly higher level of problematic || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">AUTHOR’S NAME || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">STATEMENTS || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">EFFECTS ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Yang S.C, Tung C.J || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~The analytical results revealed that Internet addicts spent almost twice as many hours on line on average than the non-addicts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Iacovelli A, Valenti S || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~increase in communications brought about by Internet usage actually had negative effects on user’s psychological well-being and social involvement.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Yellowlees P.M, Marks S || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~individuals who are vulnerable, especially with a history of impulse control and addictive disorders, are especially at risk of using the Internet in a problematic way. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~(Chou, 2001; Treuer, Fabian,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Odaci H, Kalkan M || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~Internet use of 5 h a day and more is regarded as problematic. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~ that individuals with low social skills experience greater dating anxiety