Why Is Facebook Addictive? Twenty Reasons For Facebook Addiction By Dr. Brent Conrad Clinical Psychologist for TechAddiction As explained in a previous article in this series‚ Facebook Addiction is not a recognized clinical disorder. Hundreds of millions of people use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family‚ plan events‚ receive news‚ and play games. For most‚ Facebook is a useful and enjoyable way of interacting with others online. However‚ some users claim
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FACEBOOK Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004‚ owned and operated by Facebook‚ Inc. As of June 2012‚ Facebook has over 955 million active users‚ more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. Users must register before using the site‚ after which they may create a personal profile‚ add other users as friends‚ and exchange messages‚ including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally‚ users may join common-interest user
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The Positive and Negative Effects of Facebook The Positive Effects----Keeping in touch with family and friends- Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with your family and friends that live far away. With instant messaging and even video chat‚ Facebook is the perfect environment to stay connected. With the status updates‚ photos‚ and profile information‚ it can keep you up to date on the happenings of all of your close ones. Making new friends- Facebook makes meeting new people extremely easy
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article titled‚ “Beware of Facebook Danger‚” on May 10‚ 2006. In this article‚ Waite ultimately tries to persuade her readers to avoid Facebook. She describes how predators can use Facebook as an opportunity to find unsuspecting victims. She also tells of the risk that a student might face from questionable photos posted of them. She explains how students can portray themselves as potential victims by exposing their insecurity. Finally‚ she talks about how employers can use Facebook to check the credibility
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Facebook Faces Up Case Analysis December 15‚ 2009 Case 3 Background and overview Facebook was launched in February 2004 by Harvard undergrad students as an alternative to a student directory or what they are use to at Harvard. This site got immediate popularity among students‚ then spread like wildfire as they have over three fifty million register users and six billion hits a month. Facebook is a real business that brings in over one seven hundred million dollars in revenue
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The amount of active worldwide Facebook users as of June 2012 is 955 million‚ accounting for approximately a seventh of the total population on Earth. With such a mass population of the world checked into Facebook‚ it sparks question as to what kind of effect this has. There is no doubt that Facebook itself is a fantastically engineered social media‚ connecting just about one billion of people in the world with the simple action of logging into a website. But with the rapid growth of this social
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few: Google – Motorola‚ e-Bay – GSI Commerce‚ Facebook – Instagram‚ etc. Last year‚ one of the biggest deals in business combinations was Facebook and WhatssApp. The acquiring company (Facebook) went as far as paid astounding amount of $19‚4 billions to acquire internationally popular messenger WhatsApp. They paid over $4 billions in cash‚ $12 billion worth in Facebook shares‚ $3 billion in restricted stock‚ and a sit on boards of director of Facebook for Jan Koum‚ the
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Today I will talk about Facebook; it’s a very topical subject particularly since Facebook submit paperwork to regulators for an IPO‚ 1 month ago. But let’s start with a little part of history Histoire «From Harvard dorm room to all Canadian and US University : Mark Zuckerberg‚ 28‚ founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students‚ including Facemash‚ where you could rate people’s attractiveness
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Social Networking for Teens Online: MySpace & Facebook ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Poor Okay Good Great Awesome Rate this article: None (19 votes) Bottom of Form by John Suler‚ Ph.D. Adolescents typically spend a lot of time talking with other teens online in websites such as MySpace and Facebook. Online teens now are a significant population‚ and it is important that kids as well as parents understand what is happening in this online world. First
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Social sites such as MySpace and Facebook are becoming increasingly more popular as today ’s younger generations are trying to stay in touch with friends and acquaintances from all over the world. Travel is becoming more prevalent as we seek to explore new and exciting cultures beyond the borders of our home towns‚ and what these social sites do is help us stay in contact with hundreds of friends in hundreds on cities all over the world. Sean Young told me that‚ "Facebook and MySpace are the only way
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