LITERATURE REVIEW OF INTERNET USES

Christian Gross (1996) stated that Internet is like a highway, the Internet has congestion
and moving information from source to destination.(p. 132). The World Wide Web or the
Web assist to make information which easily accessible, bring a new ways of interaction
with others, obtain information whether resources or software, and find entertainment.
Users of Internet are showing an increasing exposure and commitment to Internet-based
activity. They are spending more time online and doing more types of things( Horrigan
and Rainie,2002). Longtime users, new users and former users all rank Internet activity as
number one or two as a reason for being online (Katz and Aspden,1997).

Facebook initially allowed only college students to become members, and remains the
most popular social media among college students. In a recent study, college students
reported using Facebook approximately 30 minutes throughout the day as part of their
daily routine (Pempek, Yermolayeva, & Calvert, 2009, p. 227).
Facebook expended to allow any member of the public to join, and now reports more
Internet traffic than any other social media in the U.S. (Schonfeld, 2008).
Social media provide opportunities for users to engage in self-presentation of identity
(DeAndrea, Shaw, & Levine, 2010 ; Grasmucks, Martin, & Zhao, 2009; Pempek et al.,
2009; Zhao, Grasmucks, & Martina, 2008) and talk with famiy, friends, and colleagues
(Mazer, Murphy, & Simonds, 2007; Page, 2010; Pempek et al., 2009).
Further, online social interactions fundamentally differ from face-to-face interactions in
offline social networks. Online social networking typically offers opportunities for
expression that are less restrictive. Users may disclose at levels quite different than in

their face-to-face conversation (Debatin et al., 2009; George, 2006; Gozzi, 2010).
While online social networks differ from face-to-face social networks in important ways,
they nonetheless function as a viable channel for interaction (Memmi, 2006).
According to Correa, Hinsley, and de Zuniga (2010), social media are digital and internet
tools that have little to do with tradional media. Instead it provides a mechanism for the
audience to connect, communicate, and interact with each other and their mutual friends
(Correa et al., 2010, p. 248). Other scholars define social media more broadly than just
networking sites, to include blogs, wikis, user-generated media, and forums (Schrock,
2009). Researchers Boyd and Ellison (2008) provide a more complex three-prong
definition of social media:

Nie (2001) found that Internet perpetuate or exaggerate existing offline behaviour, such
as increasing connectedness only for those with initially larger networks and better
resources.
At another level of analysis, there is concern for the well-being of geographically defined
communities when individuals spend their time on individual activities, or on interactions
with people outside the area ( Hampton and Wellman; Wellman. 1999).
Nie and Erbring (2000) find that the more time people spend online, the greater the
percentage of individuals reporting decreased time spent with family and friends: from
for percent with 1 hour of Internet use per week to 15 percent with more than hours use.

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