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**1.0 INTRODUCTION**


 * 1.1 Introduction of the research**

Nowadays, it is a trend for people to depend on the virtual world to communicate, share interest and activities and also explore information. Social networking websites such as MySpace, Friendster, Tagged and Face book have become extremely popular in recent years and more widely used by young people. Psychologists are seeing more teens increasingly dependent on the virtual world to communicate with friends, upload their own images, music and videos to make them available for public use. Furthermore, it has become a trend in online communication. The aims of this research are to investigate the implications of the social networking websites to students in their study as well as their social life, to find out the use of social networking websites among UMP’s students and to find out the awareness of the possible risk involve in using social networking websites when it comes with online sexual predators. (**I think you can elaborate more on this, try to read more to get more ideas.)**
 * 1.2 Statement of the problem**

I n particular, we are interested in how much the awareness of the youngster using these social networking websites when it comes to the risk involve. Many social networking websites such as Face book provide the user with a choice of who can view their profile but in contrast some users are taking chances on this social networking to attract teenagers for their sake. In general people are using this social networking for some applications such as government, business, dating, educational and medical. (**You don't need to include statement of the problem for this project, but you can have it if you want to.)** **1.3 Research objectives**

In order to fulfilling our case study, we have decided to highlight three main objectives that related to our research. As we know, UMP’s student was provided with free wireless service which allowed them to surf the internet around the campus. Therefore, our main objective is to find out the use of social networking websites among UMP’s students. Social networking website such as My Space, Face book and Tagged allow user enjoy customizing their profiles, sharing photos as well as playing online games. Our next mission was to identify the level of awareness of the possible risks involved using the social networking websites. Individuals with profiles on social networking websites have greater risk taking attitudes than those who do not have any profiles on social networking websites. In addition, we also want to discover whether female users have greater risk taking compare to male users. Therefore, users should be concern about the possible risk involved using the social networking website.  Apart from that, we also want to investigate the implications of social networking websites to the students in their study as well as their social life. Some of the teenagers, especially female user was easily influenced by strangers who confess their fake love. Besides that, most of the student also spends their time more than an hour, sitting in front of the laptop just want to enjoy their social networking website. Nowadays, a lot of teenagers also obsessed surfing their social networking website. As a result, this phenomenon will affect their study. **1.4 Definition of terms use**
 * (You don't have to elaborate your objectives. Just list them like you did for your proposal.)**

Here are several definitions of terms that are related to our study. These terms are important and recurring in our research. One of those terms is social networking website. Social networking website can be defined as free online website where people communicate with other people by sharing their interest, profile and playing games. These terms can help respondents to understand what is the research is all about. Apart from that, the other term is awareness. Awareness is knowledge or understanding of a particular subject or situation. Our aim is to figure out whether the user of social networking website has any knowledge about the effect of using social networking website to users. Besides that, the other important term is implication. Implication can be defined as a possible future effect or result of the action, event as well as decision. In our research, we want to find out whether the respondents are aware about the effect of using the social networking website. We also want to discover the positive effect as well as negative effect to the user of social networking website.
 * 1.5 Research questions and or hypothesis**



  