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__**1.0 INTRODUCTION**__

1.1 **Background** **of the proposed report** The use of Internet by people in all walks of life increases day by day. In the drive higher education to promote the use of information and communications technology (ICT), the role of the Internet cannot be over emphasized. The Internet provides scientists, lecturers and students, access to non-traditional sources of information at any poinr of the globe. It is becoming more and more convenient to access the Internet. The Internet plays a crucial role in access to information resources.Statistic from Geographic Region (as cited in Tsitsika, 2008) indicate that at least 1802.3 million internet users in the world on 2009 and 764.4 million are from Asia. This shows that the Internet is becoming a common tool,a standard information-gathering and communications resource in both the learning and home environments of most students.

Yet, the vast majority of university districts have stringent rules against nearly all forms of social networking--even though students report few problem behaviors online. Indeed, district leaders believe that social networking could play a positive role in students' lives and they recognize opportunities for using it in education--at a time when teachers now routinely assign homework that requires Internet use to complete. In light of the study findings, university districts may want to consider reexamining their policies and practices and explore ways in which they could use social networking for educational purposes. Beyond communications and networking, students are also engaging the Internet for creative purposes, from uploading podcasts to blogging to updating personal websites to writing articles that they submit to sites at least weekly.

The goal of this project is to evaluate how much the students use internet and how they use the internet in their daily life.Beside that, this project will evaluate either the use of the Internet will give the good or bad effect to the UMP's students.

1.2 **Research Objective**

The research objectives of the study are ;

- To examine the use of internet among the FSKKP's students. - To find where FSKKP's students often access the Internet.

1.3 **Research Questions**

Two questions that are going to be highlighted for this research are ;

- What do the FSKKP's students access when use the Internet? - Where do students often access the Internet?

1.4 **Definition of Terms**

According to www.wikipedia.com, Internet is a a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services.

-FSKKP = Faculty of Computer Science and Software Engineering -UMP = University Malaysia Pahang -BCN = Bachelor of Computer System and Networking