International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 9

Problems of Students with Internet Usage

  • Author:
  • Geeevargese Peter1, S. Santha2
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 589 to 599

1B. Com Student, in Commerce & Research Guide, Department, Post Graduate and Research Department of, Commerce Institution, St. Peter's College, Kolenchery, Ernakulam, Dist., Kerala, India

2Associate Professor in Commerce & Research Guide, Department, Post Graduate and Research Department of, Commerce Institution, St. Peter's College, Kolenchery, Ernakulam, Dist., Kerala, India

Online published on 20 June, 2019.

Abstract

Internet, being an important media of communication of information has grown significantly and has become a part of the social, commercial, educational, political, and personal activity of the people during the last few years in the world. Even though it gives several benefits to its users, internet users face different network problems while accessing internet across locations, facing quality and reliability issues like connection breaks, Spam Mail POPOUTS, Winner Declare POPOUTS, Advertisement POPOUTS, inconsistent speed, commuting take long time to refresh, fail to load, Auto Downloads, session failures etc.

The study aims to analyse the problems faced by the commerce students of St. Peters College Kolencherywith internetusage. The data were suitably classified and analyzed based on the objective of the study. For analysis, statistical tools like percentages, chi-square test and Kendall's W Testwere used.

The major problem faced by the students with internet usage was ‘Advertisement POPOUTS” and “Redirecting to Another Site “was the second major problem faced by them.” Auto Downloads” was ranked last.

Most of the respondents faced the issues relating to the Advertisement POPOUTS, Jammed Site, Redirecting to Another Site. However, the major problem faced by the students with internet usage was ‘Advertisement POPOUTS”.

Keywords

Cybercafés, Advertisement POPOUTS, Jammed Site, Spam Mail POPOUTS