ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES USAGE

OF INTERNET AMONG STAFF OF CICT UTM

The "internet" is all the computers in the world that are
connected, including the technologies (routers, servers, which
are also computers actually) as well as the wires and antennas
that keep all the computers talking to each other.

Internet" is not just your web email. It is everything that goes
over those wires from one computer to another: the email
itself, web sites, messenger (such as Yahoo Messenger or MSN
Messenger), phone calls on Skype, messages from an ATM to
a bank.

INTRODUCTION
The internet has become a part of our everyday life because
of its ease to use, diversity and speed. The internet is easy to
use. All people can use the multi search engines easily.

The internet is a database full of information and offers us a
lot of services, sometimes for free. This makes our life easier.
The internet facilitates to exchange commodities.
To find out the frequency and duration of CICT Staff use the
Internet

To investigate the purposes of using the internet among staff

To find out the benefits of using the internet as perception by
the staff

To determine the problems of internet use on the staff
OBJECTIVE
How frequent and duration of CICT Staff use the
Internet?

What are the reasons for staff to use the Internet?

What are the benefits of using the internet on CICT
Staff?

What are the problems faced by CICT Staff when they
use the Internet?
RESEARCH QUESTION
The questionnaire are distributed to Staff of CICT from 15
th
April 2014
to 25
th
April 2014 on the CICT building
RESULTS OF STUDY
23
17
Gender
Male
Female
Chart 3.1 : Gender of Respondent
1. Gender of respondent
23 respondents equal to 57.5 % are male and the other are female.
2. Age of respondent
0
5
10
15
20
25
18 - 25 26 - 30 31 - 39 40 and above
Age
18 - 25
26 - 30
31 - 39
40 and above
Figure 3.2 : Age
20 respondents are aged between 31 and 39 years.

11 respondent aged above 40 and the others are below
30 years old.
3. Duration of using the Internet
Chart 3.3 : Duration of using the Internet daily
0 2.5 %
70 %
27.5 %
Duration
less than 1 hour
1 to 3 hours
4 to 6 hours
More than 6 hours
70 % respondents are using the internet from 4 to 6 hours
daily. 27.5 % respondents using internet more than 6
hours daily. Only 1 respondent using internet less than 4
hours daily. Overall, the chart showed that most
respondent using internet more than 4 hours daily.
4. Frequency of using the Internet
0
2.5 %
60 %
37.5 %
Frequency
1 to 2 times
3 to 4 times
5 to 6 times
More than 6 times
Chart 3.4 : frequency of using the Internet Daily
60 % respondents are using the internet 5 to 6
times daily. Others respondent are using the
internet below than 4 times daily. From the data
above most Staff of CICT are using internet
regularly and always connected to the internet
for some reason. The data showed that staff of
CICT addicted to the internet
5. Main reason for using the Internet
Figure 3.5 : Reason for using the Internet
8
0
13
3
2
0
11
3
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
TO search for work
related
information
To play games to interact using
online social
network
To keep updated
with current news
Male
Female
13 male and 11 female respondents are using the
internet to interact using online social network. 10
respondents using the internet to search for work
related information.

6 respondents using the internet to keep updated
with current news. More than half of the Staff of
CICT using the internet to interact using online
social network like facebook and twitter.
6. Benefits and problems of using the Internet
40
28
32
20
20
19
0
12
8
20
20
21
0 10 20 30 40 50
Internet made work easier
addicted to the Internet
wasted a lot of time using the Internet
work performance had declined due to
spending too much time on the internet
eyesight has deteriorated due to spnding
too much time on the internet
rather spending time browsing the
internet than do my work
Disagree
Agree
Figure 3.6 : benefits and problems of using the Internet
All respondent agree that the internet are
made their work easier.

28 respondent are addicted to the internet
and 32 respondent agree that they are
wasted a lot of time using the internet
rather than do their work.

20 respondent agree that their work
performance had declined and their
eyesight has deteriorated due to spending
too much time on the internet
CONCLUSION
Base on the findings of the study, the following conclutions have
been made:

Majority of CICT Staff spend 5 to 6 times daily using the
internet. This shows that the Staff use the internet regularly
perhaps for work purposes.

Almost all Staff CICT using the internet to interact using online
social network.

All CICT Staff agree that internet made their work easier.

Staff of CICT agree that spending too much time on the internet
can make their eyesight has deteriorated and their work
performance decreased.
The following are several recommendations based
on the finding and conclusions of the study:

CICT Staff should not miss use the internet
during office hour because that can cause their
work performance.

Staff also must spend more time to their work
rather than spend time on the internet.
RECOMMENDATIONS