International Research Journal of Arts and Social Sciences

Abstract

This exploratory review report discoveries on the profile of Malaysian youthful grown-ups age 20 to 24, otherwise called the Generation Y or potentially the millennial age, with exceptional respect to their utilization of Internet and virtual entertainment advances. Information was gathered from 379 youth from a public Malaysian college across six schools of concentrates in a Malaysian public exploration based college: the Academy of Islamic Studies, School of Economics and Administration, School of Engineering, School of Education, School of Business and Accountancy, and School of Arts and Social Sciences. Discoveries show that the most favored exercises are online correspondence and socialization, followed on exploring on unambiguous data to finish tasks, "how-to" and "DIY" data. The most un-favored movement is purchasing things, for example, books and dress on the web. Also the Academy of Islamic Studies understudies are more dynamic in examining policy centered issues online contrasted with their companions from different schools. Information from this study will permit social specialists to use Internet and virtual entertainment advancements for the educating and learning exercises

Keywords

social media, youth, technology.

INTRODUCTION

Versatile innovations, Internet and online entertainment have become social peculiarity particularly among youthful grown-ups age 18 to 29 or otherwise called the millennial age Among others, their discoveries showed that the utilization of interpersonal interaction destinations American teens and youthful grown-ups has risen altogether beginning around 2006. They are viewed as more participated in numerous social connection exercises, for example, sending everyday messages to companions, sending releases, bunch messages and confidential messages on these locales (Johnson J G, 2002). Social networking and online activities Informal communication is an innovation that permits two-way correspondence and collaboration between unambiguous people as well as associations in a web-based climate (Gould M S, 1988). A considerable lot of these person to person communication locales (SNS, for example, Facebook and Twitter are worked with miniature publishing content to a blog innovation that supports contributing to a blog action with more modest size of word posts The easy to understand element of SNS welcomes its wide utilization among youth and grown-ups (Shaffer D, 1988). The Pew Internet and American Life Project. Have recognized a few exercises completed by these two gatherings utilizing SNS. The exercises include: Mobile advances, Internet and online entertainment have become social peculiarity particularly among youthful grown-ups age 18 to 29 or otherwise called the millennial age among others; their discoveries demonstrated that the utilization of person to person communication destinations American teens and youthful grown-ups has risen essentially beginning around 2006. They are viewed as more participated in numerous social connection exercises, for example, sending day to day messages to companions, sending notices, bunch messages and confidential messages on these locales.

• sharing substance like photographs, recordings and stories with others

• Remixing on the web content, for example, music and recordings together to make Artistic Manifestations.

• Writing for a blog and remarking on others' web journals.

• Building sites.

• Presenting remarks on news bunch, site, blog or photograph destinations.

• Data looking through on subjects like wellbeing, news and political news, and web based buying.

Methodology

A survey on online social media activities are distributed to a sample of 379 young adults in the age of 20 to 24 years old (referred to as young adults throughout this paper) across six main faculties in a Malaysian public researchbased university. These schools are Academy of Islamic Studies, School of Economics and Administration, School of Engineering, School of Education, School of Business and Accountancy, and School of Arts and Social Sciences. 73% of the respondents are female, thus, the ratio female to male is 2.7. For ethnicity, 53% of the respondents are Malay and 37% are Chinese which is aligned with Malaysia’s population in 2010. The number of respondents surveyed is representative of the Malaysian population, and the gender and ethnic distribution in Malaysian higher education institutions. (Table 1) presents the background of the respondents based on their schools, gender and ethnicity.

Findings

Information from this study uncover a few fascinating discoveries on understudies' admittance to innovations and their exercises both on the web and via virtual entertainment (Garland A, 1988). Discoveries are introduced by the three primary exploration inquiries of this review. (Table 2) demonstrates that over 90% of the respondents own different sorts of handheld telecom gadgets, for example, PDAs and advanced cells, and near 100 percent of the understudies own PCs. Every one of them approaches the Internet and most use the Internet to check (Yan L, 2015) send and get messages. This finding affirms the underlying supposition that the overviewed bunches are innovation wise and do use their mechanical gadgets for correspondence purposes.

CONCLUSION

All in all, we noticed that there are different ways of behaving between understudies from each school who took part in this review despite the fact that they are all in the sorted as Generation Y (Tan Y, 2014).It is primarily because of different factors, for example, their experiences, the courses they are chasing after, companions' persuasions and admittance to innovations (Xu S X, 2013). Notwithstanding, this gathering of youthful grown- ups shares a few qualities. They are effectively participated in the virtual entertainment locales both for sharing data and for instructive purposes. This shows they are agreeable in involving innovation for educating and growing experience, and know about and keen on political and social issues around them ( Wu L 2013). According to scholastic perspective, discoveries from this study uncover that scholastics of higher instructive establishments ought to use the advances in speaking with this youthful age of understudies Farrah Dina Yusop and Melati Sumari/Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences (Wei C, 2013- Lowry D T, 1988).and plan their educating and learning errands to empower them in friendly activism undertakings applicable to their scholarly projects.