The Singapore Internet Project -- SIP studied the Internet usage pattern and its social impact among its citizens. On the whole, its findings of the 2001 student survey opposed the skeptical outlook that Internet users tend to be glued to their virtual world and ignore real-life relationships leading to social seclusion. For instance there are no variation in the number of times devoted weekly having dinner with their families among heavy and light users. No substantiation emerged of the variation among both heavy and light users and the evidence could not hold water that Internet usage resulted in lower personal contact with their families. This goes on to prove that Internet users are inclined to devote more time with their families, not due to the fact that Internet usage encourages family interaction, rather due to presence of other factors like association between a family's importance on family interconnected nature and the family's understanding regarding the importance on IT education for the children. (Singapore Internet Project- Key Findings of 2001 Student Survey: Attitudes towards Internet) .

             Normally such families score higher in their socio-economic status with higher-educated parents who comprehend the magnitude of IT in their children's education and have the means to hearten IT use in the daily lives of their children. As regards perceiving the impact of the Internet on the society in general, as opposed to the above segment regarding the usefulness of the Internet towards them, the variation among the users and non-users for this segment was much narrower. Nearly 57% perceived that the Internet helped students to concentrate on their studies in an effective manner that could be the fallout of the initiative of the Singapore Govt.'s endeavor in nurturing information technology in education. But more than 29.2% among the light users, 27.4% heavy users took a neutral stand and the remaining nearly 14% of the users held the opposite view.