Extra Credit Week 8: Facebook Moms Gervaise says more and more mothers are using Facebook as a platform to boast about their lives‚ their kids‚ their parenting techniques. And that’s making it harder and harder for moms like her to log on without getting slapped in the face. Bragging about your kids is nothing new‚ but before Facebook‚ the Compare & Contrast game was mostly played at the playground or the preschool parking lot. Moms would stand around discreetly scrutinizing kids to see who was
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We should not add our parents as friend on facebook According to the statistic updated in year 2013‚ there are total numbers of 1.26 billion of Facebook users. It is common to have a Facebook account‚ vice versa. The percentage of teenagers that add their parents as friend on Facebook is 70%. 70% of them think that there is no problem to add their parents as friends on Facebook. However‚ it is my view that I should not add my parents as friends on Facebook as it retrains me from being myself‚ invades
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Facebook has become the most popular social net-working website in the 21st century. The main idea of Facebook is to let you keep in touch with friends all over the world as long as they have a Facebook account. You can post anything on your friend’s electronic wall and put up a status about something as trivial as what shoes you wore that day. The highest age groups who uses Facebook are teenagers. Facebook are now an essential
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Here’s where all those billions come from. Facebook makes an astonishing 85% of its revenue from advertising. Of that‚ around 30% comes from mobile advertising. The rest 15% of Facebook’s income comes from various sources‚ which have been further explained below The biggest reason for the success of Facebook lies in advertising. Like I already mentioned‚ Facebook has access to all the information that you post on the site. They then publish ads on your screen that are directly related to where you
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offered Facebook a $ 750 million in 2006 but was turned down and the same year Yahoo! Attempted to buy it for $1 billion but got refused too and it finally decided to become public because it crosses threshold of 500 shareholders according to the Reuters Financial blogger Felix Salmon. As Facebook finally went public‚ it had to filed for an initial public offering on February 1‚2012 by filling the document with the securities and exchange commission and to ensure the early investor of Facebook would
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Is Facebook Making Kids Mean? Rude comments have always been part of the middle school world. But it’s getting out of hand. Interactions on Facebook are the complete opposite of talking face-to-face. Facebook makes kids meaner. One reason Facebook is making kids meaner is because online communication can bring out hostile behavior. In the text‚ the author says‚ “Devon‚ 13‚ says that not long ago‚ a friend lashed out at her in a Facebook post.” Kids and adults say things online that are much different
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Do you think you are addicted to Facebook? What are the signs which show a person is addicted to Facebook? Give reasons to support your view. Yes I am addicted to Facebook. The signs that shows a person that is addicted to Facebook is when he/she is constantly thinking about Facebook‚ like always updating his/hers statuses‚ always talk about the topics that he/she saw from Facebook or constantly checking his/her phone for Facebook updates. Another sign of Facebook addiction is when he/she always
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FACEBOOK HAS MORE ADVANTAGES THAN DISADVANTAGES BY: PRESENTED TO: UNIVERSITY: DUE DATE: Bessant (2001‚ p. 207) confirms that facebook is known widely by people all over the globe; those with accounts in face book are able to connect with people who are not near them at the shortest time possible. The introduction of the system has enabled communication between people who are familiar with each other and strangers. At the end of July 2011 many sites had integrated the comments made in facebook.
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With the ample presence of social networking sites these days such as Facebook and Twitter‚ it is much easier to be connected to people from the other end of the world than it used to be. With just a few clicks of the mouse‚ you will become friends or be connected virtually to other people from the other side of the continent. However‚ friends‚ particularly in Facebook and friends in real life are truly different. In Facebook‚ your friends list may contain people whom you are completely oblivious
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being many varieties. Looking for Alaska by John Green and Half my Facebook Friends are Ferrets by J. A. Buckle both have excellent examples of the theme of friendship with the main characters‚ Miles “Pudge” Halter in Looking for Alaska‚ and Joshua “Josh” Walker in Half my Facebook Friends are Ferrets. Through comparing and contrasting‚ the differences and similarities between the two events will be examined. In Half my Facebook Friends are Ferrets‚ the major event in which the theme of friendship
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