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The college experience is not only about learning in the classroom, it is also about encountering new social situations and gaining new social skills. College students use the Internet nearly as much for social communication as they do for their education. But just as they use the Internet to supplement the formal parts of their education, they go online to enhance their social lives. Internet has become the appendage of our day-to-day life in recent times. Life cannot be imagined today without its functioning all over the world. In fact, it has caught the public in its expanding web and has begun to alter some people’s sense of community, ways of work and play, and even how they deal with government. Television and radio stations, news-papers, financial institutions, and many businesses are beginning to present information on the World Wide Web and are inviting comment from readers. Internet use is a staple of college students’ educational experience. They use the Internet to communicate with professors and classmates, to do research, and to access library materials. For most college students the Internet is a functional tool, one that has greatly changed the way they interact with others and with information as they go about their studies. The goal of this paper was to learn about the Internet’s impact on college students ’ daily lives, and to determine the impact of that use on their academic and social routines