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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
 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
 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
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%. Year Frequency Percentage
1 10 33%
Table 2: The Year of Respondents
Studying 2 10 33%
3 10 33%
Total 30 100%

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 consists
10 students which indicated 33% of the total respondents from each year.

Figure 2: Year of Study

The graph above shows the year of the respondents studying. 10 students or 33%
from each year from year 1 till year 3 were selected.
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 frequency
while Indian is the lowest.
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 persons
or 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.
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%.
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 7/30 8/30 7/30 7/30 1/30
.blog website 23% 27% 23% 23% 4%
.2 I am not interested in reading the blogs 2/30 9/30 11/30 8/30 0/30
that have no information about the 7% 30% 37% 27% 0%
.authors
.3 I feel that I'm in risk of sexual harassment 1/30 9/30 11/30 6/30 3/30
.while blogging 3% 30% 37% 20% 10%
.4 I have been the victim of identity stealing 3/30 10/30 9/30 5/30 3/30
.before 10% 33% 30% 17% 10%
.5 I seldom view the blogs that contains 5/30 10/30 5/30 6/30 4/30
.improper contents 17% 33% 17% 20% 13%
.6 My blogs providers ask me to give my 3/30 15/30 3/30 7/30 2/30
.details or identity 10% 50% 10% 23% 7%
 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 agreed
which is 8 of them, indicating 27% of total respondents and 1 of them answered very
disagree, indicating 4% of total respondents which the lowest.
 Question : 2

Answers Frequency Percentage

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 them
answered very disagree, 0%.
 Question 3:

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
 Question 4:

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
 Answers Frequency Percentage Question 5:

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 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.
:Question 6

Answers Frequency Percentage

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 the
frequency of 15 persons, indicating 50% of them and only 2 persons who are very
disagree with the percentage of 3% of total respondents.
.Section B: Topics that always being discussed in blogs

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

NO QUESTION 1 2 3 4 5
.1 I am interested in blogs that discuss the 3/30 15/30 3/30 7/30 2/30
.topic of sexual relationship 10% 50% 10% 23% 7%
.2 I write down my personal problems 5/30 10/30 5/30 6/30 4/30
.happened in my daily life in my blog 17% 33% 17% 20% 13%
.3 I always joint the discussion about topic 3/30 10/30 9/30 5/30 3/30
.related to entertainment in blogs 10% 33% 30% 17% 10%
.4 I rarely use the blogs to find any 1/30 9/30 11/30 6/30 3/30
information regarding my study at 3% 30% 37% 20% 10%
.university
.5 I prefer to use blog as my diary rather that 2/30 9/30 11/30 8/30 0/30
.books 7% 30% 37% 27% 0%

.6 .My blogs are just for educational topic 7/30 8/30 7/30 7/30 1/30
23% 27% 23% 23% 4%
SECTION B
Question :1

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
 Question :2

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
 Question 3:

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
 Question 4

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
 Question: 6

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
.Section C: Role of blogs in helping teenager’s social ties

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

NO QUESTION 1 2 3 4 5
.1 I trust my online friends more than my 8/30 6/30 7/30 4/30 5/30
.daily friend 27% 20% 23% 13% 17%
.2 I feel that I am friendlier in online 3/30 16/30 5/30 2/30 4/30
.activities, especially in blogging 10% 53% 13% 7% 13%
.3 I feel that I have become more social 5/30 11/30 8/30 4/30 2/30
.able when blogging 17% 37% 27% 13% 7%
.4 I prefer to use blogs to communicate 5/30 9/30 5/30 7/30 4/30
.with my friends rather than hand phone 17% 30% 17% 23% 13%
.5 Blogs help me a lot in improving my 3/30 15/30 6/30 5/30 1/30
.social relationships 10% 50% 20% 17% 3%
.6 The activities of blogging help me in 6/30 11/30 8/30 3/30 2/30
.improving my self-confidence 20% 40% 27% 10% 7%
.7 .I made a lot of friends via blogs 30/30 0/30 0/30 0/30 0/30
100% 0% 0% 0% 0%
SECTION C

Question :1

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
Question : 2

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
Question 3:

Answers Frequency Percentage

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
Question : 4

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
Question : 5

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
:Question 6

Answers Frequency Percentage

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.
Question : 7

Answers Frequency Percentage

Very Agree 30 100%

Agree 0 0%
Not Sure 0 0%
Disagree 0 0%
Very Disagree 0 0%
Total 30 100%

This question is asking the respondents whether they have made a lot of friends via
blog

Chapter 5
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 computer’s 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

 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 blog’s providers set up the condition for the people
who want to use their services to fill online forms telling about the person’s 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 respondent’s 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.
SECTION B: Topics that always being discussed in blogs.

The second hypothesis of this research is teen’s 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 teenager’s 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.

 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.

6.0 RECOMMENDATION
 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.

7.0 CONCLUSION
 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.