The Abuse of Social Networking 1 Among University Students

1.0 1.1

INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Nowadays, computer and internet are the most important daily users especially for the

youth generations. Students are the main priority using computers and internet in their education programmes which involve doing research subject matter, finding information, to communicate with faculty and anything which suited their coursework. Most of the students have their own computers and laptops. Also, having electronic gadgets such as digital camera and iPod have becoming a norm to the students life in the modern days. Moreover, the electronics companies keep producing the latest technology involving computers such as Sony, I-Mac, Dell and Toshiba. The government always supporting the students to have a computer for each student to keep up with the advance technological world in the new era of computers. Survey on students says that students prefer to buy and use their own computer instead of using computers provided by university Practically, in these 'cyber world', there is always social networking programming which involving students. The social networking is amongst the highly-rated programmes that are used by the students. Facebook, a modern social networking is a fast developed engine used by the students. Produced by billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, facebook is a friendly social network which can connect and interact students with other friends. Other social network engines are 'Myspace', 'Friendster', and 'Twitter'. Students also nowadays doing blog in the internet. Blogging is a part of a person's diary in their daily life. We can speak through the internet by telling stories, express the feeling in the blog and also doing business. This is part of e-business which involves trading between a blogger and the users. Have you ever heard that mostly your friends bought clothes, rare collectible items, and electronics gadget are from the blog engine? The other network engine that the students always used is the 'Video' search engine. 'Youtube' is one of the pioneers in this modern day. Practically, students always open this engine to listen to music, watching video clips and watching documentary programme. Besides that, students can also upload a video to entertain people on all over the world.

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1.2

Problem Statement As technology improves upon itself, so does the ease of performing everyday tasks by

using new gadgets. The internet has become one of the most universal means of communication with millions of users logging on daily. The availability of internet accessibility from gadgets such as gaming consoles and even cell phones has made it easier for people to stay connected and get work done. People from all walks of life use the internet for different reasons. Generally speaking, business people use it to send emails, students use it to gather information and others use it for recreational purposes such as chat rooms and since recently social websites .This quantitative casual comparative research was geared at finding the underlying causes and symptoms of the effect the abuse of Internet has on human beings. Rationale for the study exists in the fact that the internet abuse is now an illness and can be diagnosed. Nowadays, social networking is very popular among the Malaysian. It seen that Malaysia has experienced a dramatic growth in number who use social networker. The past few years has seen the social networking becoming necessity among Malaysians. At first social networking are not first choice of communication but through the time, social networking begun to build its popularity among people because it is faster and easier to use compare old ways of communication . The usefulness and convenience of this technology has made more and more Malaysian become too dependent on its function without realising they misuse it for wrong attention. Given the uprising number of social networking user in the country, there may be a corresponding increase case of people abuse of it.

The problem statement states that there is a growing epidemic in the field of Technology of an increase in the obsession with the Internet which has resulted in some people abuse it. Given the situation, it is high time that our local government take serious effort in studying the possible danger that may arise from abuse of social networking. Past few year many developed nations have not only invested fund into research program that study about this abuse of social networking but also show the public the research finding on effect abuse of social networking .

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1.3

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of study is to find out the main reason in the abuse of social networking amongst the students and to determine the number of students that prefer spending their daily days on internet engines products in three categories, 'Facebook', 'Blog' and 'Youtube'. Other than that, this study will also investigate the amount of hours spent by each student and to determine whether it is proper or not for the students to follow the norm in the cyber technologies.

1.4

Objective of the Study

The objectives of this study are:

1. To identify the abuse of social networking amongst the students. 2. To clarify the implication of social networking to the students' future. 3. To notify the social networking in the perspectives of religion. 4. To notify the new generations' attitude towards the globalisation era.

1.5

Research questions

1. What are the disadvantages of social network to students? 2. What are the factors that cause the problem of social network? 3. What action should be taken to solve these problems? 4. What are the role government and private sectors to solve the problems? 5. Who responsible for the abuse of social network? 6. Who will be the victim for the negative outcomes of the social network?

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1.6

Significance of the Study

The findings of this study are very important to make student to understand the importance of not misuse the social networking engine. The most important thing is to teach the students the awareness of social networking in the modern days. Students will be more careful in exploring the internet which involves the facebook, blog and Youtube. This study is also to make sure students to make their religion as a mind set and guidance in the social networking norm. Hence, this study will make students realize the wrongdoing in their history life. Students should be more alert and careful so that they can be a idol to other students as well.

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Scope of the Study

The respondents for this research are based on an amount of 50 UTM students. They are divided from different courses, such as architecture, quantity surveying and planners. The questionnaire was given for them to make sure they fill in based on their daily spending on the research. Moreover, we have done an interview with some lecturers and students regarding on this issues and hopefully we can find some solutions based on their answers.

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2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW.

2.1 History of social network Social networking websites may be defined as sites that allow users to build a profile that will be made public within an enclosed system. Social networking websites also allow users to display some of the other users they communicate with and they allow them to view lists of other members found within the system. It should be noted that the main purpose behind creation of a social networking website is to enable persons to avail pre-existing connections. Social networking websites have also been created for the purpose of initiating friendships between strangers. (Acquisti & Gross, 2006) The past few years has seen the social networking becoming necessity among Malaysians. The burgeoning of the social networking market has generated the founding a number of internet service providers who are competing among themselves for a larger market share. When social networking were first introduced, they were expansive status symbol since who used it must have expansive gadget. We could only see it being used by high-class people but then, similar to other technologies after several years it would become cheaper and easier to use .When it first introduce to people at late 1990 no one seem interested to it. This is because at that time they still dont know about it use. One of the reasons why it not so famous because to use it people must have quite expansive gadget like computer. Through the time, social networking begun to build its popularity among people. It easier and faster to connect with other people compare the old ways attracts people attention. But until era 20 century the social network become very famous .According to SueLynnCarty (2010) Social networking actually existed before MySpace and Facebook. Online communities began building in the late 1990s with sites such as Classmates and Six Degrees. It wasn't until around 2005 when social networking exploded with MySpace, Facebook and Xanga.

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Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook offer opportunities to post a host of personal and professional experiences, information, and even photos. You can also block information and make it available only to those you select to be able to view what you have posted. Facebook is a social networking site for professionals and provides an opportunity for them to connect and communicate with people working in specific fields of interest. Facebook also offers an opportunity to connect with people who know people you know in your network. Social networking services were started with the intention of linking small communities. Elements of these features were present in the past but very few companies offered all the three essential features that make social networking websites. These are an ability to create profiles, provide the profiles to other users and also to view their users' lists. According to Cassidy (2006) All service networking companies have had major differences because of restrictions or access to the above three features. MySpace and Facebook are one of the most reputable companies in the industry.

2.2

Advantage of Social Networking

When we talk about social networking advantage there are many points that can support it. One of the reasons is that people can make friend worldwide with it. Social networking is really famous nowadays. It has become necessity for each people without boundary of age or status financial. This is because it have become cheaper and easier to use it by time. The Internet service provider is competing with each other to lower the price in order to attract more people. As a result more and more people are capable to use it nowadays compare to the late 1990.People are attracted to know people from other region in the world as they did know much before this. Social networking is one of the ways that make this concept become reality since it faster and easier. SueLynnCarty (2010) state that Because of the vast amount, (roughly 150 million users altogether) on the two major social networks, MySpace and Facebook, the door for social networking is left wide open. If we talk about old ways of communication it takes a lot of time to connect people at distant. For example by post a letter it may take few days or week to reach its destination. It also cannot guaranty that it will reach its destination safely because a lot of thing can happen during at travelling time.

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So one of the ways to make sure their communication did not have any interruption is by social networking. From a business point of view, the first two advantages of social networking enable you to meet new clients and expand your business because most of these sites allow you to customize your webpage and provide links to your personal website. Just to give you a few examples, there is Multiply, MySpace, Friendster, Face Book and Classmates. With so many around, you won't have a hard time looking for a social network that you like. You can even post ads here so you can inform other members of an event that you are hosting. The best part about becoming a member of a social network is that majority of these is free. This means that you don't have to pay any fees. All you have to do is sign up by filling up the form and then activating the link when this is sent to you via email. Now that you are a member, you can invite other friends to join and look at other profiles.

2.3 Disadvantage of social networking .

To use social networking people has to insert data about their self in order to make an account .One of the disadvantage of it that the amount of personal data that is made available should be highly customizable, or it is best to find a site that provides better privacy features. Elizabeth. (2010) State that The disadvantages are also endless. Social networking sites can sell your personal information to anyone who wants to buy it, including spammers and on line predators. Even if the terms of understanding claim that no personal information will be sold, the site can change its policy at any time. If blogs or other original content is published at a site, the site can take over copyright privileges in unlimited ways. Few writers, artists and musicians are aware of this and forget to read the terms of understanding in order to find out what can happen to their works. Another disadvantage of social networking is person can lie about themselves. In order to attract other people usually will say something about them which not true .In order word they lie about themselves. According Elizabeth M. Young (2010) to True identity is never known unless people meet in person. While it is a myth that, without body language, a person's behaviour and personality can never be understood, there is never a way to get a person's complete behaviour and personality profile strictly through on line interaction.

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Social networking is a time consuming activity. A person is expected to participate by reading and to commenting on many topics and posts, rather than just skimming and lurking. It takes time to figure out ways to tweak the profile page into a masterpiece of beauty and widget. It takes time to find out where the great groups and people are. Once they are found, it takes time to carry on the conversations and to develop the relationships. According to Elton Gahr (2010) Even sneaking over to a site for a guilty pleasure: games can turn into a time consuming group process. The farming, group interactive and other games can become a full time job as others want to borrow this, give that and then to talk about it all.

In the shorter term problems list is that of social networking being a time sink and perhaps a bit addicting. There are a lot of people who spend far too much time on sites like facebook. If all you're doing in spending a few breaks checking in with your friends that isn't a big deal but there are people who can spend hours a day on this. These social networking disadvantages are due to dangers, irritants, untrustworthy processes, such as selling registration information, and there are untrustworthy people who are active in social networking. The savvy social networker takes time to establish solid friendships and memberships in groups, has a sceptical mind, and holds back when prompted to give up too much personal information or to interact with total strangers.

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3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1

INTRODUCTION

Research methodology is one of the most important parts in research report. It shows the main purpose of the research to find out the abuse of social networking among university students. The data for research were collected through questionnaire and 50 students of UTM, Skudai was selected randomly to answer the questionnaire.

3.2

RESEARCH INSTRUMENT

The research utilized quantitative research methodology. Our questionnaire contains 21 questions divided into two (2) parts. The questionnaire has different types of questions and divided to various parts according to objective of the research such as part A about demographic of respondents, part B are the questions about the abuse of social networking, does the social networking helping in giving information, social networking in religion perspective, and also about teenager in involving to the social networking.

3.2

RESPONDENTS OF THE STUDY

The respondent of the study is from any year undergraduate students from different courses at UTM, Skudai. A total of 50 questionnaires were distributed to students at different faculties of the university. From the 50 questionnaires distributed, 23 respondents were male students and 27 respondents were female.

3.4

RESEARCH PROCEDURE

The research was conducted by distributing the questionnaires at various locations on campus, such as in the class, faculties, several cafeterias, library and also the colleges. The questionnaires were distributed for male students and for female students.

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3.5

DATA ANALYSIS

To analyze the data, a total of four variables were taken into consideration to make the data precise, the percentage of the number of respondent in identifying the abuse of social networking among the students, the percentage of the number of respondent in clarifying the implication of social networking to the students future, the percentage of the number of respondent in notifying the abuse of social networking in the religion perspectives and the percentage of the number of respondent in identifying the new generation attitude towards the globalization era. Data were entered to counts into the computer using Microsoft Excel software by manual method.

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4.0 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION Regarding to this section, The colleague will reveal the outcomes of our research. We have done our findings into one part which is questionnaire. This quantitative method has been applied by our group to obtain our own findings. Most of the findings are involving the students of University Technology Malaysia. 4.1 Questionnaire For the first part of our findings which is questionnaire, we have classified our findings into particular objectives of our research. It means that, each objective have its own findings and graphs. 4.1.1 To identify the abuse of social networking among the students

HOW MUCH THE STUDENTS WILL SPENT THEIR TIME FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING IN A DAY
60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 1-2 HOURS 3-4 HOURS ABOVE 4 HOURS HOW MUCH THE STUDENTS WILL SPENT THEIR TIME FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING IN A DAY

Based on the first graph of our first objective, it shows that how much the students will spent their time for social networking per day. The result tell us that most of the students will spent their time for about 1-2 hours in a day for social networking which are 50 percents. It means, half of the students in the university are spending their 1 to 2 hours out of 24 hours given by the god on social networking. The following data shows, 30 percents of the university students will spend their time for social networking which 4 hours and above. The least percentages are 20 percents which is the students will spend their time for about 3 to hours for social networking.

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By referring to our outcomes, the most percentages of the students will spent their time on social networking is 1 to 2 hours. For the period of time of 1 to 2 hours is not a very long period that the students should normally spend their time on social networking. This type of students can be classified as students that know how to manage their time very well. Meanwhile, for the least percentages is on 3-4 hours and above. These types of students are most likely to waste their time on social networking and maybe they do not have so many works as the other university students and obviously, the kind of these students in the university are not so many. For the middle percentages which are 4 hours and above, these kind of students are more worst then the least category. They really love to spend their time on social networking like they do not have any assignment to do or class to attend.

THUS THE SOCIAL NETWORKING INVOLVE IN THE STUDENTS DAILY LIFE

100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% YES NO THUS THE SOCIAL NETWORKING INVOLVED IN THE STUDENTS DAILY LIFE

According to our second graph which is related to the social networking on the students daily life, most of the students are involving the social networking on their daily life which are 93 percents. The other remaining 7 percents of university students are not using the social networking every day. Maybe they even keep in touch with their lecturer through facebook.

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For the students who are in the category of the students who used social networking in their daily life must be so dependable their life on social networking. They even search information about anything they want in the facebook. These kind of students have a really IT lifestyle. For the remaining students who are not using social networking everyday are not too dependable their lives on the IT. They maybe still keep practising the traditional method, go to the library to seek information, reading the books or did the meeting with their lecturer through face to face.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN DISTURBED BY THE PEOPLE WHO YOU DO NOT KNOW IN SOCIAL NETWORK

NO HAVE YOU EVER BEEN DISTURBED BY THE PEOPLE WHO YOU DO NOT KNOW IN SOCIAL NETWORK

YES

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

The figure above is the last graph for this objective. This graph will more tell us on the aspect of abuse itself that will usually happen on social networking. 70 percents of the students are answering yes when we asked, did they ever been disturbed by the strangers when they are on the web. The others 30 percent are answering no to this question, which means they were never been disturbed by the people who they do not know before this. Under the category of the students who are answering yes, we notify that most of them have a good look. This is maybe the biggest factor that encourage the strangers to disturbed them in order to tackle them or to make them as their friends. For the other category of students which are answering no, apparently they are vice verse with the yes category of students.

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4.1.2 To clarify the implication of social networking to the students future

WHAT NORMALLY WILL STUDENTS DO ON FACEBOOK

60% 50%

40%

30%

WHAT NORMALLY WILL STUDENT DO ON FACEBOOK

20%

10%

0% FIND FRIENDS PLAY GAMES ONLINE BUSINESS OTHERS

The representative graph above shows the first graph for the second objective. The main idea for the second objective is to study the impact of social networking toward students. Basically, the graph above represent what will normally students do when they are on the web. The most common thing that the students will do on their facebook is to find friends, which is 50 percents. Follow by the others, which is 30 percents. Playing games obtained the percentages of 7 percents and finally the online business rank the lowest percentages which is 3 percents. For the most percentages rank by the find friends option, the students are maybe love to make friends, Besides, they are still young and it is a teenagers lifestyle for having such a many friends everywhere around the world. Regarding to the others option, most of them will find information on facebook. Looks like there are still amount of students who making use of the facebook wisely. Lastly for the second least and the least percentages which are playing games and online business does not suite the lifestyle as a students. That is why it is only a small amount of the students who are involved in these two fields.

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THUS THE SOCIAL NETWORKING ARE HELPING STUDENTS IN GIVING INFORMATION

90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% YES NO THUS THE SOCIAL NETWORKING ARE HELPING STUDENTS IN GIVING INFORMATION

The second graph under the second objective revealed the level of beneficial of social networking toward the students. There are two option for the respondents which to answer the question that is integrated with the proposed graph. The result of the question revealed that 83 percents of the students find that the social networking really helping them to seek for information and the other 17 percents does not agree that the social networking are helping them in finding information. Majority of the respondents are agreed that the social networking does really giving them the information that they seek for. Clearly, this category of students knows how to benefit their own social account network. Instead of wasting their time for hours facing their laptops chatting on facebook, they could use those precious hours to find information and complete the task that were given by their lecturers. It is actually true that the facebook can be use to find information. Nowadays, there are a lot of intellectual people have their own account of facebook. And what they do was they post their notes or information on the wall of facebook so that the public will read their notes and they can share their knowledge to the others. Or even we can directly ask to these intellectual if we have any doubt or uncertainty regarding to our problems.

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THUS THE FACEBOOK BRING NEGATIVE EFFECTS TO THE STUDENTS

60

50

40 THUS THE FACEBOOK BRING NEGATIVE EFFECTS TO THE STUDENTS

30 20 10 0 YES NO

The final graph under the second objective of our research represent the impact of social networking especially facebook in their daily life. Majority of the students are agreed that the facebook brings the negative effect toward the students itself. The percentage for this answer is 53 percents. The remaining 47 percents says that they are not agreed that the facebook brings the negative impact to the students. According to the students that choose yes as their answer to this particular question, the students are often to be on facebook for so many hours just to chatting with their friends or strangers who they just know a few seconds before. Most of the chatting purposes are nothing but asking what they did, what are they doing and any others question that are unnecessary to ask for. Just imagine they are able to spend their hours of time by doing that. Referring to the students who were choosing no for their answer, they are totally disagreeing with the opinions of facebook badness. They are really making use of this social network web to find information and do any other essential matters to do.

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4.1.3 To notify the abuse of social networking in the religion perspectives

80% 70% 60% 50% YES 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% THUS THE SOCIAL NETWORKING GIVE A GOOD IMPACT IN RELIGION PERSPECTIVE NO NOT SURE

Before we go through the graph shown in above, The Colleagues would love to describe why we choose to run this objective in our research. We are also a facebook user and generally we know what are going on with the facebook everyday. This lately, we notify that the religion matters do really being related with the facebook in order to spread it to the public either for a good or bad purposed. Therefore, this graph purpose is to show whether the social network especially facebook give a good impact or vice verse it in religion perspective. 70 percents of the respondents agree that the social networking give a good impact in religion aspect to the society. They assume that the social networking will help to spread the information relating to the religion to the society easily since nowadays there are so many people involve with the social networking. The social networking will also facilitate the missionaries to do their work and obviously we can see a lot of missionaries especially Muslim missionaries using their own facebook account to spread goodness. The following percentages is 27 percents which is they do not agree that the social network bring a positive matters to the religion. They just find out that the people are used to quarrel and argue about their own religion on the social network. Commonly, what will happen is, this side of religion will criticise the other religion and this matter will happen in cycle and it will not stop until there is one side squabble. The remaining 3 percents are not sure maybe because do not care about this matter when it is happen.

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4.1.4 To identify the new generation attitude towards the globalisation era

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE TEENAGERS GENERATION ATTITUDE THAT IS INVOLVE IN SOCIAL NETWORKING?
90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 RUDE THEY DO ANYTHING WITHOUT THINKING FIRST CUTE POLITE

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE TEENAGERS GENERATION THAT IT INVOLVED IN SOCIAL NETWORKING?

The figure above shows a graph regarding to the teenagers generation attitude that is involve in social networking. Most of the respondents are choosing the option of they do anything without thinking first as their answer for this particular question. The percentage for that answer is 77 percents. The following percentage is rude. 13 percents of the students choose rude as their option. Next is the polite option which is 7 percents. The lowest rank was occupied by the cute option which is 3 percents. For the most common answer choose by the respondents, they are choosing this answer based on their observation and experience themselves. Nowadays, there are a bunch of teenagers who are doing anything as their favour and do anything without thinking first. The purposed of this kind of teenagers doing nonsense on the social network maybe because of the lack in aspect of parental advisor and control. When they are not being watch or observe by their parent, they will do anything without thinking the consequences and the effects will affect the surrounding of social network itself. The second highest percentage is rude. The causes of the problem may be the same as the first option that we have mentioned earlier. The cute and polite option for this proposed graph may be referring to the kids that are in primary school. Of course, the majority of the primary school students are cute and polite because they are still small and not being exposed to the real world yet. Besides, may be if there are the teenagers under this category, they received a well education from their parents.

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5.0 CONCLUSION This research studied the impact of social networking among students in university. The primary data that were collected by randomly distribute the questionnaire paper to the students with the total amount of 50 respondents. As we had mentioned before in the introduction, the purpose of our research are to identify the abuse of social networking among the university students, to clarify the implication of social networking to the students future, to notify the abuse of social networking in the religion perspective and to identify the new generation attitude toward the globalisation era. Based on the findings that we have discovered, regarding to the first objective most of the students in the university is literally involved in social networking everyday either on facebook, through blog or any other social networking channel. Most of them are also had gone through the experience of abuse on social networking especially facebook. For the second objective, we can say that social networking gives good and bad impact to the students future. Social networking are really helping the students on seeking for information especially through blog but in the same time, students are also keep wasting a lot of their quality time on social networking to do unbeneficial matters. Next finding is referring to the third objective. We are able to find out that the social networking thus really gives a good impact to the society in religion perspective. Last but not least, our final findings shows that most of the teenagers that were involved in social networking are not mature regarding to their behaviour and do all the things that they want without thinking. The result of this study indicates that the social networking really gives an impact to the students lifestyle either in positives or negatives way. Therefore, the students themselves should really be wise on dealing with the social networking matter and use the social networking channel for goodness to themselves, their family and society surrounding instead of the vice verse way. The university students are motivated and dedicated enough to think what are the best for themselves and what should they do to guarantee a better future instead of ruining it. It just a matter of either they have the desire or not to change to a better style of life or they are more prefer to the enjoy lifestyle that can ruin their future.

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6.0 RECOMMENDATION 6.1 Based on Findings Based on findings and conclusion of the research, here are the several recommendation that should be considered: 1. Students should be wiser on dealing with the social networking matter and gain the benefits from the social networking itself. 2. The social networking user especially students should not easily being influence by the strangers on social networking without knowing their true intention first. 3. The founder or the organisation that is involve in building and developing a certain social networking should take more precaution on privacy matters for the user and execute a filter for the bad and negative contents on the social networking channel. 4. The government especially the defence department must monitor the movement and flow of the user of social networking especially to those who are giving the bad influence to the society and execute an appropriate action to the responsible person. 6.2 For Future Research Since this study are only been done in the area of University Technology Malaysia, we recommend that maybe after this it will be more suitable to done this research to the others university in Malaysia. It is good to execute this study for more than one university because our research target are the students themselves and the outcomes of the result will be more variety due the variety of different environment of university. The total questionnaire and respondents should also be increase to give a better result with a variety answer form the respondents. The manpower in this group of research should also be increase if the research target wants to proceed to the others university in Malaysia because it needs a lot of people to ensure the smoothness of work programme and make sure everything going under control.

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8.0 APPENDICES Questionnaire We are the students form Advance English subject. Our group name is The Colleague and we are doing our project based on the title The Abuse of Social Networking. We are also doing some researches based on the title and hope that you can spend some of your time answering these questions.

PART A 1. Gender a. male b. female 2. Year a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 3. Race a. Malay b. Chinese c. Indian 4. Age a. 18-20 years old b. 21-24 years old c. 25-30 years old 5. Mother tongue a. Malay b. English c. Mandarin d. Tamil

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Part B 1. Do you use social networking in your daily day? a. Yes b. No 2. How much time you spend social networking in a day? a. 1-2 hours b. 3-4 hours c. above 4 hours 3. What type of social networking do you always use? a. Facebook b. Friendster c. my space d. twitter 4. How do you find Facebook? a. Interesting b. boring 5. What do you do in Facebook? a. Find Friends b. Play Games c. Online Business d. Others ( Please

state:_______________________________________________ ) 6. Do you think Facebook bring negative effects to student? a. Yes b. No 7. Why? a. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ ____________ 8. Do you blog? a. Yes b. No

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9. What type of blog do you prefer to read? a. Entertainment b. Politics c. Education d. Others (Please state:-

_________________________________________________ ) 10. Why do you blog? a. Finding information b. Doing business c. Making friends d. Others state:__________________________________________________ ) 11. Are you a blogger yourself? a. Yes b. No (Please

12. How do you find blogging? a. Interesting b. Boring 13. Do you watch Youtube? a. Yes b. No 14. What type of videos do you watch in Youtube? a. Music b. Politics c. Education d. Entertainment 15. How often you watch video in Youtube? a. Every hour b. Every day c. Every week

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16. Do you think Youtube bring negative effects to youngsters? a. Yes b. No 17. Why? a. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ ____________ 18. Have you ever being disturbed by the people who you do not know in social network? a. Yes b. No 19. Do you think by social networking are really helping in giving you information? a. Yes b. No 20. In your own religion perspective, do you think social networking give a good impact? a. Yes b. No 21. What do you think about the teenager generation that is involved in social networking? a. Rude b. They do anything without thinking first c. Cute d. Polite