SOSIOLOGY DA'WAH

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Objectives

1.3 Problem Statement

Chapter 2

2.1 Literature Review

2.2 Hypothesis

Chapter 3: Research Methodology

3.1 Research type

3.2 Data Collection

3.2.1 Main Data

3.2.2 Secondary Data

3.23 Data Analysis

Chapter 4: Finding

4.1 Data Analysis

4.2 Part A: Background of Respondents

4.3 Part B: Results of the Questionnaires

Chapter 5: Discussion

5.1 Background of the Respondents

5.2 Results of the Questionnaires

Chapter 6: Recommendation

Chapter 7: Conclusion


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Chapter 1

1.1 INTRODUCTION

This paper will be explored on the role of blog in influencing the teenagers.

Blog is one of the latest technological achievements in communication that is very

effective because the method of using blog is simple, fast and accessible in anywhere.

Actually, the function of blog is to share background about the self, various activities,

information and all that can be shared with others without the chargeable by someone.

In other word, the function of blog is a place where you keep the public informed

about whatever you do, what you like, what you think about and anything you think

suitable to specify in blog (Martins 2004). In addition, person can relate and share

personal thing, their thoughts about an issue and also to expand their influence and

networks to everyone in wider place.

Focusing on the activities of blogging among teenagers, when teenagers use

the blog in daily life, they become highly activated because, which blog can give the

many advantage for them and improved their performance life, they get the satisfied

in shared activities in blog. Once you have the blog set up, you can post whatever

information you like. It's really a fast way to get your articles and information up on

the web and the templates look good (Steven Veleudo, 2002) In addition, activity in

the blog can determine a person is more likely to own activities such as marketing,

health, entertainment, etc.

Although the use of blog can be applied on various fields such as in business,

educational areas, corporate and many more but the use of blog as the personal tool

seems to be in the highest rate amongst all. Obviously the people who use the blog as

personal tool mostly are teenagers. In order to know deeply why the blogs are very

popular among teenagers, the role of blogs in influencing them must be deeply being

understood.


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1.2 THE OBJECTIVES:

1. The purpose of this study is to identify the role of blogs in influencing

the students of Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University.

2. To know whether the bloggers influence social behavior among the

students of Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University.

3. To investigate whether the students of Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan

University can evaluate the information that is spread in the blogs is good or

bad.

1.3 PROBLEM STATEMENT

We conducted this research on this topic because of several issues. First, the

activities of blogging among teenagers seem to be in the highest rate. Although the

use of blogs can be implemented in various sectors and aspects such as in corporate

and organization, educational field, business and many others but the use of blogs as

the personal tools among teenagers is the highest.

Then, the activities of blogging, focusing on teenagers could bring some

effects either it is positive or negative. Although there are many benefits from this

evolving technology, blogs also could give negative impacts.

In order to understand why the teenagers love the activities of blogging, we

first must know the roles of blog in influencing the teenagers so that they are very

interested in this activity. For further understanding on this issue, we also need to

know the effects of this activity on them whether it is positive or negative impacts.


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Chapter 2

2.1 LITERATURE REVIEW

Title: Teen Blogs Exposed: The private Lives of Teens Made Public

First, a study about Teen Blogs Exposed: The Private Lives of Teens Made Public

by Huffaker, D. (2006). Referring to the journal, blogs represent popular online

diaries for teenagers to expose their daily life, thought and feeling to public. By

blogging, teenagers are tends to disclosure of their personal information which are

very important. The command blog themes among adolescence are covering on the

topics that affect their everyday life such as school- related topics, music, and also the

discussion on the topic of relationships in various forms which is almost half of them.

The activities of blogging have several benefits that can be seen though development

perspective which teenagers can explore and present their identity online and also

through social perspective where blogs can help create or maintain social ties.

However, blogging also provide some negative impacts on bloggers. The revelation of

personal important information to pubic will expose ten bloggers to two kinds of

dangers that are cyber talking or sexual predation by adult strangers and cyber

bullying by peers.

Title: Roles of Blogs in studying The Discourse and Social Practices of

Mathematics Teachers.

Second, a study about The Role of Blogs In studying The Discourse and Social

Practices of Mathematics Teachers by Makri, K, and Kynigos, C. (2007) According to

the writers, there are three elements in determining the successful of online education

that are social presence, cognitive presence and teaching presence. Social presence

focuses on learners' personal shared world, while teaching presence insures a

structured, coexist with other two elements. Authors also said that blog have potential

for teachers reflection. The use of blog by teachers will make them become more


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effective in improving their skills of teaching. By using the educational software's that

have been developed on the internet, their teaching method will be more effective and

easier. By using blogs in teaching, students or participants can give their comments

and ask the authors of the blogs (teachers) openly without need to past through formal

ways. The most significant things appeared from online mathematical education is

that the informal discursive style, and the effort of participants to engage in

communicatively demanding situations, they try to avoid the custom, daily or usual

mathematical writing styles. Some specific profiles with certain behavior also

appeared in online education that are, blog enthusiast, blog frequent visitors and blog

specific.

Title: Are blogs putting youth at risk for online sexual solicitation or

harassment?

Third, a study about the risk of online sexual solicitation or harassment on teen

bloggers by Kimberly J.Mitchal, Janis wolak, and David Finkelhor (2008). According

to the writers, the tendency of the youth blogger to put their personal information in

their blogs will keep them in danger. Blogs may be assessed by sex offenders who

will use that information to find their target victims. Besides, blogs also may be a

platform for other crime like the exposure to inappropriate material and identity theft.

Most of the bloggers are founded to be teenage girls who are in high risk of sexual

solicitation and harassment. However, the sexual solicitation and harassment did not

occurred purely because of the activities of blogging, there is no root reason that is

youth are attempt to make interaction with online contact and that interaction can

begin via various ways not only because of blogging. Researchers found that the non-

bloggers are attempted to interact with people what they meet online more than

bloggers. The only main reason why blog putting youth at risk of sexual harassment is

because of the exposure of personal information. Although some rules or guidelines

on the activities of blogging have been given, teenagers in particular, are likely to

ignore restriction against blogging.


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Title: Exploring the Role of the Reader in the Activity of Blogging

Fourth a study about The Role of The Reader in The Activity of Blogging by

Baumer, Mark Sueyoshi and Bill Tomlinson (2008). According to the article by Eric

Baumer, Mark Sueyoshi and Bill Tomlinson, blogs are developing at an increasing

rate. There is consensus that blogs has become an important and influential from

media. They also believe the study of blogging is similar with literary criticism by

some reader use the own theory. Besides, this article also believes that to fully

understand the activity of blogging, we must study overall, not only bloggers and the

blogs but also the readers of those blogs and their interaction and relation with the

blog and the blogger. Blogs can show their habitual nature as a self-prescribed system

to the readers. From some reader, checking and reading blog are using much time to

know fully of about the message from the blogs. Bloggers are believed to express

their feeling overwhelmed and released them through blogs. Blogs readers do not

read blogs in a temporally situated manner. There are differences in how reader

understands about the blogs and objectives of their activities. The manner and main of

reading and understanding blogs depends on many factors such as the content of the

blogger and the relationship with the reader to the blogger. The characteristics of an

interesting blogs are based from the concept of the blog, perception and presentation

of the blogs, also the consistent definition of the blog. Authors also said that the

format and content of a blog is based on the general understanding of a blog.

2.2 HYPOTHESIS

1. Teen Bloggers attempts to expose their detail information in their blogs

website openly.

2. The teen's blogs like to discuss more on the topic that have been

surrounding their daily life especially about their relationship with others

rather than other topic such as knowledge and entertainment.


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3. The activities of blogging among teenagers will help them in

maintaining and improving their social ties.

Chapter 3

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1 Research Type

In this research, we used descriptive types of research which is involves

observation/surveys that is questionnaires. We also used library research using

journals and books. Descriptive research also called as statistical research. The

main goal of this type of research is to study frequencies, averages, and other

statistical calculations. Descriptive research is the exploration of the existing

certain phenomena. (Wikipedia)

3.2 Data Collection

3.2.1 Main Data

Our main data in completing this research is by surveying. We used

questionnaires approach by distributing the questionnaires to the students of Kuala

Lumpur Metropolitan University who are taking the course of Certified Computer

Network Specialist. The questionnaires were filled with 30 questions regarding our

objective and hypothesis in this research. There were 30 students that have been

randomly selected from year 1 until year 3 which are 10 students from each year.

3.2.2 Secondary Data

As our secondary data, we used library research and also internet to

support our objective in this research. For library research, we used to refer on

journals and books which are connected to this research topic. Then, for

internet research, we find the information regarding to this topic by surfing the

related websites.

3.2.3 Data analysis

For data analysis, we will make the descriptive statistic according to the

results of the distributed questionnaires or by percentage from the


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questionnaires. For better figure, we will use Microsoft Excel to represent the

result.

Chapter 4

FINDING

4.1 Data Analysis

For data analysis, we got the data from distributed questionnaires that have

been answered by thirty students who are taking the course of Certified Computer

Network Specialist in Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University (KLMU). We have

chosen ten students from each year, from year 1 until year 3. The questionnaires

contain thirty question regarding our objectives and hypothesis on this research.

4.2 Part A: Background of Respondents

Table 1: The Gender of respondents

Gender Frequency Percentage

Male 20 67%

Female 10 33%

Total 30 100%

We had distributed 30 sets of questionnaires. From 30 of the respondents, 20 of them

are male which indicates 67% while 10 of them are female which indicates 33%.

Figure 1: Gender


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The chart above shows the gender of respondents. Based on the table, there are 30

respondents as whole with 100%. From this 30 respondents, 20 of them are male with

67% while 10 are female with 33%.

Table 2: The Year of Respondents

Studying

In selecting the respondents, we have chosen 10 students from each year which is

consists the students from year 1 until year 3. As the results, our respondents consists10 students which indicated 33% of the total respondents from each year.

Figure 2: Year of StudyThe graph above shows the year of the respondents studying. 10 students or 33%

from each year from year 1 till year 3 were selected.

Year Frequency Percentage

1 10 33%

2 10 33%

3 10 33%

Total 30 100%


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Table 3: Race of the Respondents

Race Frequency Percentage

Malay 26 87%

Indian 4 13%

Total 30 100%

The table tells us about the race of our respondents. We have 4 respondents who are

Indians which indicates 13% of total respondents while most them are Malays which

indicates 87%.

Figure 3: Race

The graph above shows the race of our respondents. There are only two kinds of races

covering our respondents that are Malay and Indian. Malay is in the highest frequencywhile Indian is the lowest.


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Table 4: Status of the Respondents

Status Frequency Percentage

Single 29 97%

Married 1 3%

Total 30 100%

The table shows the status of the respondents while these questionnaires were

distributed. Almost all of the respondents are single with the frequency of 29 personsor 97% from the total respondents and we have a person who has married which

indicates 3%.

Figure 4: Status

The graph shows the status of the respondents where 29 of them are single and 1

person married.


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Table 5: Educational Level of the Respondents

Education Frequency Percentage

SPM 0 0%

STPM 0 0%

DIPLOMA 30 100%

Total 30 100%

The table above show that the educational level of respondents. Based on the table,

there are three level education levels of respondents with SPM, STPM and Diploma

There are 30 respondents as whole with 100%. From this 30 respondents, 0 of them

from the SPM level with 0% while 0 of them from STPM level with 0%. Besides that,

all of the respondents are from Diploma level with 100%.

Figure 5: Educational Level

The above graph shows the educational levels of the respondents where all of them

came from Diploma level which indicates 100%.


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4.3 Part B

Section A: The exposure of personal information in the blogs website and the

effects.

1 2 3 4 5

Very Agree Agree Not Sure Disagree Very Disagree

NO QUESTION 1 2 3 4 5

1. I put on my personal information in my

blog website.

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23%

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27%

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23%

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23%

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4%

2. I am not interested in reading the blogs

that have no information about the

authors.

2/30

7%

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30%

11/30

37%

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27%

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0%

3. I feel that I'm in risk of sexual harassment

while blogging.

1/30

3%

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30%

11/30

37%

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20%

3/30

10%

4. I have been the victim of identity stealing

before.

3/30

10%

10/30

33%

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30%

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17%

3/30

10%

5. I seldom view the blogs that contains

improper contents.

5/30

17%

10/30

33%

5/30

17%

6/30

20%

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13%6. My blogs providers ask me to give my

details or identity.

3/30

10%

15/30

50%

3/30

10%

7/30

23%

2/30

7%


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SECTION A :

Question 1:

Answers Frequency Percentage

Very Agree 7 23%

Agree 8 27%

Not Sure 7 23%

Disagree 7 23%

Very Disagree 1 4%

Total 30 100%

The figures above show the results the question that asking whether they put on their

personal information in their blogs website or not. Most of the respondents agreedwhich is 8 of them, indicating 27% of total respondents and 1 of them answered very

disagree, indicating 4% of total respondents which the lowest.


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Question : 2


Very Agree 2 7%

Agree 9 30%

Not Sure 11 37%

Disagree 8 27%

Very Disagree 0 0%

Total 30 100%

The figures above show the results the question that asking whether they are

interested in reading the blogs that have no information about the authors or not. 11 of

them or 37% did not agree with the question which is the highest while none of themanswered very disagree, 0%.


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Question 3:


Very Agree 1 3%

Agree 9 30%

Not Sure 11 37%

Disagree 6 20%

Very Disagree 3 10%

Total 30 100%

The figures above show the result from the question that asking them about whether

they are feeling in risk of sexual harassment while they are blogging or not. Most of

them answered that tey are not sure with the frequency of 11 persons, indicating 37%

of them while 1 person or 3% of them very agree which is the lowest frequency.


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Question 4:


Very Agree 3 10%

Agree 10 33%

Not Sure 9 30%

Disagree 5 17%

Very Disagree 3 10%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking about whether the respondents have been the victim of identity

stealing before or not. 10 of them or 33% answered that they are agree which is the

lowest while 3 students or 10% very disagree, same frequency with the respondents

who answered very agree.


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Question 5:

This question is asking the respondents about whether they seldom view the blogs that

contains improper contents or not. Most of them agreed with the frequency of 10 of

them, with the percentage of 33% while 4 of them or 13% answered very disagree

which is the lowest.


Very Agree 5 17%Agree 10 33%

Not Sure 5 17%

Disagree 6 20%

Very Disagree 4 13%

Total 30 100%


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Question 6:


Very Agree 3 10%

Agree 15 50%

Not Sure 3 10%

Disagree 7 23%

Very Disagree 2 3%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking the respondents whether their blogs providers ask them to put

on their detail information to use their services or not. Most of them agree with thefrequency of 15 persons, indicating 50% of them and only 2 persons who are very

disagree with the percentage of 3% of total respondents.


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Section B: Topics that always being discussed in blogs.

1 2 3 4 5

Very Agree Agree Not Sure Disagree Very Disagree


1. I am interested in blogs that discuss the

topic of sexual relationship.

3/30

10%

15/30

50%

3/30

10%

7/30

23%

2/30

7%

2. I write down my personal problemshappened in my daily life in my blog. 5/3017% 10/3033% 5/3017% 6/3020% 4/3013%

3. I always joint the discussion about topic

related to entertainment in blogs.

3/30

10%

10/30

33%

9/30

30%

5/30

17%

3/30

10%

4. I rarely use the blogs to find any

information regarding my study at

university.

1/30

3%

9/30

30%

11/30

37%

6/30

20%

3/30

10%

5. I prefer to use blog as my diary rather that

books.

2/30

7%

9/30

30%

11/30

37%

8/30

27%

0/30

0%

6. My blogs are just for educational topic. 7/30

23%

8/30

27%

7/30

23%

7/30

23%

1/30

4%


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SECTION B

Question :1


Very Agree 3 10%

Agree 15 50%

Not Sure 3 10%

Disagree 7 23%Very Disagree 2 7%

Total 30 100%

The figures above show the result that asking the respondents whether they are

interested in blogs that discuss on the topic of sexual relationship or not. Half of them

answered that they are agree which is 15 persons indicates 50% of them while 2 of

them or 75 answered that they are very disagree which is the lowest.


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Question :2


Very Agree 5 17%

Agree 10 33%

Not Sure 5 17%

Disagree 6 20%

Very Disagree 4 13%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking the respondents whether they wrote down their personal

problems in daily life in their blogs website or not. The highest frequency is 10

persons or 33% who answered with agree and lowest frequency is 4 persons or 13%

who answered very disagree.


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Question 3:


Very Agree 3 10%

Agree 10 33%

Not Sure 9 30%

Disagree 5 17%

Very Disagree 3 10%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking whether the respondents always joint the discussion about the

topic related to entertainment in the blogs or not. Most of them are agree with the

frequency of 10 persons or 33% while 3 of them or 30% very disagree, same with the

respondents who answered very agree.


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Question 4


Very Agree 1 3%

Agree 9 30%

Not Sure 11 37%

Disagree 6 20%

Very Disagree 3 10%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking the respondents whether they are rarely use the blogs to find

any information regarding their study at university or not. Most of them are not sure

with the frequency of 11 persons or 37% of them and 1 person or 3% of them

answered very agree which is the lowest frequency.


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Question: 6


Very Agree 7 23%

Agree 8 27%

Not Sure 7 23%

Disagree 7 23%

Very Disagree 1 4%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking the respondents whether they are preferred to use blogs as

their diaries rather than books or not. 8 of them or 27% answered that they are agree

which is the highest while 1 person or 4% very disagree which is the lowest.


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Section C: Role of blogs in helping teenagers social ties.

1 2 3 4 5Very Agree Agree Not Sure Disagree Very Disagree


1. I trust my online friends more than my

daily friend.

8/30

27%

6/30

20%

7/30

23%

4/30

13%

5/30

17%

2. I feel that I am friendlier in online

activities, especially in blogging.

3/30

10%

16/30

53%

5/30

13%

2/30

7%

4/30

13%

3. I feel that I have become more social

able when blogging.

5/30

17%

11/30

37%

8/30

27%

4/30

13%

2/30

7%4. I prefer to use blogs to communicate

with my friends rather than hand phone.

5/30

17%

9/30

30%

5/30

17%

7/30

23%

4/30

13%

5. Blogs help me a lot in improving my

social relationships.

3/30

10%

15/30

50%

6/30

20%

5/30

17%

1/30

3%

6. The activities of blogging help me in

improving my self-confidence.

6/30

20%

11/30

40%

8/30

27%

3/30

10%

2/30

7%

7. I made a lot of friends via blogs. 30/30

100%

0/30

0%

0/30

0%

0/30

0%

0/30

0%


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SECTION C

Question :1


Very Agree 8 24%

Agree 6 20%

Not Sure 7 23%

Disagree 4 13%

Very Disagree 5 17%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking whether the respondents trust their online friends more

than their daily friends or not. Most of them very agree with the frequency of 8

persons or 27% of them while 4 persons or 13% of them disagree which is the

lowest.


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Question : 2


Very Agree 3 10%

Agree 16 53%

Not Sure 5 17%

Disagree 2 7%

Very Disagree 4 13%

Total 30 100%

The figures above show the result from the question that asking the respondents

whether they feel friendlier in online activities or not. Most of them agree with the

frequency of 16 persons or 53% which is the highest while 2 of them or 7% disagree

which is the lowest.


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Question 3:


Very Agree 5 17%

Agree 11 37%

Not Sure 8 27%

Disagree 4 13%

Very Disagree 2 7%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking the respondents whether they have become more sociable

when blogging or not. 36% of them


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Question : 4


Very Agree 5 17%

Agree 9 30%

Not Sure 5 17%

Disagree 7 23%

Very Disagree 4 13%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking the respondents whether they preferred to use blogs to

communicate with their friends rather than hand phone or not. 9 persons or 30% of

them agree which is the highest while 4 persons or 13% very disagree which is the

lowest.


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Question : 5


Very Agree 3 10%

Agree 15 50%

Not Sure 6 20%

Disagree 5 17%

Very Disagree 1 3%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking the respondents whether the blogs are helping them in

improving their social relationship or not. Half or 50% of them agree which is the

highest while 3% or 1 of them disagree which is the lowest frequency.


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Question 6:


Very Agree 6 20%

Agree 11 40%

Not Sure 8 27%

Disagree 3 10%

Very Disagree 2 7%

Total 30 100%

This question is asking the respondents whether the activities of blogging help them

in improving their self-confidents or not. 11 persons or 40% of them agree while 2 of

them or 7% very disagree which is the lowest frequency.


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5.0 DISCUSSION

This chapter discussed about the finding of this research. We have taken a few

parts of the question obtained into consideration to be discussed.

5.1 Background of the respondents

As for our respondents, we have chosen 30 students who are taking the course

of Course of Certified Computer network Specialist in Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan

University College (KLMU) which is located at Jalan Raja Laut, Kuala Lumpur. We

chose these students because they are taking the course that is related to computers

and networks which means they are the computers enthusiast. So, it is parallel with

the topic of this research that is about the role blog on teenagers where the percentage

of these students for having the activities of blogging is higher.

Based on the finding of data analysis on the background of the respondents,

most of the respondents are male because the course that they are taking is quite

unsuitable for female. The course needs them to travel often and working with

hardware, so that it is not too suitable for females.

As the race of respondents, our respondents come from only two kinds of

races that are Malay and Indian. This is because the other races like Chinese usually

do not interested in taking this field and also because of the location of this study

place which is located at Peninsular Malaysia. Where there are only three kinds of the

races that are majority Malay, Indian and Chinese while others races only in a small

amount.

Almost all of our respondents are singles because many of them are males and

males normally do not interested in marrying while they are still studying. While for

the educational levels, all of them are from Diploma level because it is the condition

to enter this KLMU. Basically, all of the students gave co-operation in answering this

questionnaire.

5.2 Result of the Questionnaire


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For this part, we have separated the questionnaires into three section that is

section A, B, and C according to our hypothesis of this research.

SECTION A: The exposure of personal information in the blogs website and the

effects.

Our first hypothesis for this research is about the attempt of teen bloggers to

expose their detail information in their blogs website openly without considering the

effects. We believed that the exposure of personal information will make the person

be in risk of criminal activities such as sexual harassment and identity stealing.

Teenagers also believed to view the blogs that have improper contents like

pornography.

By analyzing the questionnaires answered by respondents, it is true that the

teenagers put on their personal information in the blogs website openly. Although,

some of them have been the victim of identify stealing and feel that they are in risk of

sexual harassment and other crimes but they still attempt to put on their personal

information in the blogs. According to the answers of the respondents, this attempt to

put on their personal information happened because they do not interested in reading

or joint the discussion on the blog that have no information about the author. That

means, the evaluation of the popularity of a blog also refers to the background of the

author itself. In addition, many blogs providers set up the condition for the people

who want to use their services to fill online forms telling about the persons identity

and background. However, according to the respondents, that is not the reason why

they put on their personal information in the blogs. This is might be because they can

fill the forms with fake identities.

By referring to the respondents answers, we also found that teenagers are

attempt to view the improper contents of a blog especially something that related to

pornography such as video, pictures and erotic stories which is could be the cause of

sexual harassment. The spreading of these disgusting tools will make these bloggers

being in risk because they are open to anyone.


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SECTION B: Topics that always being discussed in blogs.

The second hypothesis of this research is teens blogs prefer to discussed more

on the topic that have been surrounding their daily life especially about their

relationship with others rather that other topics such as knowledge and entertainment.

Based on the respond from the respondents, the result obviously supports our

hypothesis.

According to the respondent, blog that discuss on the topic of sexual

relationship will easily have their attention. This is because teenagers are in growing

up process and at this stage, the sexual wills of these teenagers are high. Other than

sexual relationship, the results from the questionnaires also show that teen bloggers

are interested in writing down their personal problems happened in their daily life in

their blogs. They prefer to use blogs as their diaries rather than books. This shows that

teen bloggers want to share their personal problems with others and they want others

to know what is happening in their daily life.

One more topic that is having the teenagers attention towards a blog is about

the topic related to entertainment. However, their attraction on this topic is not as

much as sexual relationship topic. The entertainment topic contains the topic about

the music, artist, movies, games and many others.

However, according to the respondents, some of them still use their blogs only

to discuss an educational topic. The habit of the teenagers for having more than one

blog makes these statements acceptable. They might be having a blog that focuses on

educational topic only but they still more interested in other blogs especially the blogs

that discuss on the topic of sexual relationship.

SECTION C: Role of Blogs in Helping Teenagers Social ties.


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Our last hypothesis for this research is we believed that the activities of

blogging among teenagers will help their social ties. We have predicted that teens will

become friendlier and more sociable while blogging. We also expected that blogs will

help them in improving their self-confidence.

By referring to the respondents answers, it is clearly and purely parallel with

our hypothesis. The respondents agree that they have become friendlier in online

activities especially in blogging. The boosts of friendly manner in these teenagers are

proved when they have made a lot of friends via blogs. Having many friends meaning

that they have become more social able and having their self-confidence. They have

no doubt in joint any discussions, telling their personal problems and their daily life to

others. However in our opinions, based on our observation, this good manner that is

occurred and showed by the teenagers is just sticking in the online activities only.

They could not implement it in real life or daily life.

Based on the answers of the respondents, we also found that teenagers prefer

to use blogs to communicate with their friends. This might be because of two causes.

First, communication via online do not cause any cents and free of charge except for

certain services. Second, online communication allows persons to make friends

without knowing each other. This is also one of the reasons why teens become

friendlier in online activities. In addition, according to the respondents they trusted

their online friends more than their daily friends. This attitude will cause some of bad

effects such as being in risk of deception and other crimes.

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Based on the finding of this research, we would like to give a few suggestions

for the next researches who will conduct the research on this field of study.

First of all, we suggest that the next researchers should focus on finding the

solutions to avoid bloggers from putting their personal information in the blogs. This

is because, the finding of current research show that the exposure of detail

information will bring negative impacts. The solutions must be effective and could

afford the popularity of the blog.

` We also hope that the next researchers could make the research on this topic

by focusing on the effects of blogging among teenagers in wider aspects. This current

study only focused on a few bad and good effects such as being in risk into crimes

(negative) and improving teenagers social ties (positive).

Then, we propose that the next researchers should find more respondents on

their research where the respondents should consists the respondents from various

races, religions, ages, educational background and other background information.

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As the conclusion, we assumed that the activities of blogging play a big role in

influencing the teenagers when we looked into a few aspects.

The activities of blogging, focusing on teenagers could bring many benefits

for them. Through blogging, they are having their self- confidence and become

more social able in the society and community. However, this attitude should not

being limited in online activities only but they must able to implement it in their

real life.

Although there are many benefits that can be gained through this evolving

technology (blog), it also could give some of negative effects. Focusing on crimes

activities, we found that blog also could make the bloggers being opened into a

few crimes like identity stealing and sexual harassment. They easily become the

targets to be the victims due to the exposure of their detail information in the

blogs.

Overall, we feel very glad because this research has found and achieved its

objectives and goals. Thank you.

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