J. Basic. Appl. Sci. Res., 3(9)31-35, 2013 © 2013, TextRoad Publication ISSN 2090-4304 Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research www.textroad.com * Corresponding Author: Addul Razaque Chhachhar, Department of Communication, Faculty of Modern languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Email abdulrazaquechhachhar@yahoo.com Internet Usage among University Students in Pakistan Addul Razaque Chhachhar 1 , Ghulam Mujtaba Khushk 2 , Ayaz Ahmed Chachar 3 , Barkatullah Qureshi 4 1 Department of Communication, Faculty of Modern languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, 43400, Selangor. 2 Department of Social and Development Science, Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 3 Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sindh, Jamshoro. Sindh, Pakistan 4 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Department of Social Science and Development, Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. ABSTRACT The revolution of internet usage among different communities cannot be denied. The information and communication technologies have spread all over the world and people are getting advantages and latest information by use of Internet. Similarly universities students also spent lot of time in findings and their related information on internet. The survey research was conducted among 200 students of University of Sindh Jamshoro Pakistan, where result revealed that, 36.5% of the students use internet for entertainment with the mean value of M= 2.73, SD= 1.35. While 42.2% of the respondents use Facebook with the mean value of M= 2.18, SD=1.41. However, 65.5% use Google website for searching the articles, reports and other material for their class assignments the mean value was (M= 1.86, SD= 1.38). The use of Facebook result showed that 42.2% of the respondents use Facebook with the mean value of (SD= 18, SD, 1.41). The result revealed that most of the students use internet for entertainments and obtaining the information for making their assignments of the class. KEYWORD Students Internet searching articles entertainment downloading and using social media. INTRODUCTION The rapid development of internet in recent years became so dominant in human life. The internet also increasingly boost the use of technology lies in education and it brings a new breath in the world information based education and communication. With the advent of technology, such information can be obtained easily with just one click of a mouse. Undeniably, the use of internet has grown rapidly in the country’s education system especially up to the tertiary level. Internet use has become a way of life in higher education institutes and department students use internet around the world. Most of higher education universities have brought the development and implementation of new and innovative teaching strategies in higher education institutions (Bashir et al., 2008). There are many problems were observed in the use of internet among university students most of the students have no facility of internet and access in their universities Internet practice that indicates the many issues such as everyone have no access of while some have Internet addiction, Internet misuse (Greenfield, 1999). In most of the universities of different developing countries have no proper internet centres, training courses and trend of workshop to facilitate students and guide them about right way of using internet for research and class assignments purpose. Most of the students have no knowledge of plagiarism just they copy and paste the material for making their class assignment, by use of the internet the trainers and teachers should organize such kind of programs to aware the students from such kind of things in university. University level there is needed to provide easy access to student of internet that they can do more research and work in academic level. The most vital thing of the internet use among university students was also students search job opportunities and students do many other things without their university class assignments and making their slide presentation. Internet provides open access to students for getting the information and knowledge about their higher education where they can easy find within seconds on internet. One another importance of internet is most publication companies uploaded their work on internet and students find research material in their academic life. Internet is one of the most beneficial sources of reference for obtaining different information (Javed, 2012). Most of student’s attitudes towards use of Internet were positive for getting the information and learning new things and research all over the world. The study was conducted in University of Malaysia Sarawak. It was indicated that students supposed to learn in new environments about use of internet in university for collecting the information about latest research (Hong et al. 2003). 31