Academic Performance and the Use of Internet as a Form of Entertainment
The Correlation of the Academic Performance of the Senior Students and the Use of Internet as a Form of Entertainment
Chapter I
The Problem and Its Scope
Background of the Study Now, almost three decades on from the internet’s first inception, the World Wide Web has become a mandatory entertainment sourcing tool. Having been involved with the internet since its infancy, Splash (which is older than Google) had the good fortune to observe the web evolve, to the point that there is now a whole generation of people whom would not know life without it. Despite this, there are still people of my own generation whom have not ventured into the full workings of cyber land, and as a result, miss out on a huge chunk of modern life. Furthermore, the internet has probably become the dearest friend to people. People cannot even imagine their life without it. It has starched its acceptance in every single part of their lives; from film to music, from education to politics, from child birth to terrorism all the subjects can be known and share out with the help of that magical “www”. It is a literary web that is widely spread all over the world. The internet is too strong to avoid. The fast and easy access makes it more desirable to all. It is the key source of information no matter what the subject people are looking for. Now there are thousands of uses of internet but mostly it is used for three purposes. Those are for education or knowledge, spreading information and for entertainment; now people can subdivide these two into millions. Keeping in mind the worldwide effect of internet some like to use it as a very effective platform of promoting or spreading their ideas, requirements or information through net. Now come to another use of internet that is entertainment. This segment is really vast and a little bit confusing as for various people the definition of entertainment is distinct. Different types of people use internet for entertainment but in different
Chapter I
The Problem and Its Scope
Background of the Study Now, almost three decades on from the internet’s first inception, the World Wide Web has become a mandatory entertainment sourcing tool. Having been involved with the internet since its infancy, Splash (which is older than Google) had the good fortune to observe the web evolve, to the point that there is now a whole generation of people whom would not know life without it. Despite this, there are still people of my own generation whom have not ventured into the full workings of cyber land, and as a result, miss out on a huge chunk of modern life. Furthermore, the internet has probably become the dearest friend to people. People cannot even imagine their life without it. It has starched its acceptance in every single part of their lives; from film to music, from education to politics, from child birth to terrorism all the subjects can be known and share out with the help of that magical “www”. It is a literary web that is widely spread all over the world. The internet is too strong to avoid. The fast and easy access makes it more desirable to all. It is the key source of information no matter what the subject people are looking for. Now there are thousands of uses of internet but mostly it is used for three purposes. Those are for education or knowledge, spreading information and for entertainment; now people can subdivide these two into millions. Keeping in mind the worldwide effect of internet some like to use it as a very effective platform of promoting or spreading their ideas, requirements or information through net. Now come to another use of internet that is entertainment. This segment is really vast and a little bit confusing as for various people the definition of entertainment is distinct. Different types of people use internet for entertainment but in different