The University Students’ Knowledge of Internet Applications and Usage Habits

Abstract The internet has become an indispensible part of our modern life in accordance with the information technologies that has been growing rapidly. The limitations concerning time, place, equipment and cost have been eased recently. Therefore, the frequency, purpose and quality of internet use have been greatly improved and the number of internet users has been increased tremendously. With the rise of the mobile devices, especially the students have started to use the internet more actively. This study aims to examine the level of the university students’ knowledge of internet and online applications. A survey including questions about more than one online application was used to identify the knowledge of the students. The questionnaires were given to the students of a school which has five undergraduate programs and a statistics software was used to analyze the obtained data. According to the analyses done, the internet use rates and the applications they use were evaluated.