Interaction

  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 34
  • Issue: 3

Common activities on internet and benefits received by the users

  • Author:
  • Ramjee Lal Meena1, Kirti 1, Pankaj Kumar Mandal1
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 96 to 100

1 Research Scholar Department of Extension Education, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Abstract

The study revealed that most of the respondents (91.25 per cent) considered ‘looking for information about books, movies or other leisure activities ’as the major common activity on internet followed by ‘doing e-mail ’(88.75 per cent), ‘looking for news or information about politics and campaign ’(86.25 per cent), majority of the respondents (96.25 per cent) visited the website ‘bhu.ac.in ’followed by ‘www.youtube.com ’(95 per cent), and ‘www.linkedin.com ‘ (81.25 per cent). In benefits of internet use most of the respondents (91.25 per cent) found ‘Getting more recent information ’as the major benefit followed by ‘relying more on self-study ’(87.5 per cent), ‘Enhancing Knowledge ’(85 per cent), ‘changing study materials ’(81.25 per cent), ‘learning new study techniques ’and ‘Connecting long distance people ’(80 per cent each), ‘online Shopping ’(78.75 per cent), ‘Very convenient to use ’(77.5 per cent), ‘Quicker access to information’ (76.25 per cent), respectively.

Keywords

internet, online activities, websites & benefits