14. Social Networking‚ QUEST 2 STOP & JOT________________________________________ Directions: Complete this document as you navigate the Quest 2 slideshow. 1. READ PARAGRAPHS 1 - 4 What mistake did the prospective student make? Explain it in your own words. How could her posts have impacted her chances of being accepted to the university? 2. READ PARAGRAPHS 5 - 7 Admissions officers visit applicant’s social media pages to learn more about them. On occasion they discover information that
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"Is Social Networking a distraction or a valuable tool that can facilitate an improved quality of life?" Right off the bat‚ any help that one can get from taking the globalised world to our fingers tips would only serve to benefit Social Bad: Sexting and perverts at our doorsteps Good: The Skype program in teens in Brazil speak with English pensioners. Education Widens the geographical area of what can be defined as a classroom Personal experience I’ve asked that instead of buying the book
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Social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook‚ blogs and Twitter have grown increasingly popular in recent years. In particular‚ Facebook has become the most visited SNS in the world with more than 800 million active users (Facebook‚ 2011‚ cited by Lee et al‚ 2012:1036). SNS can be defined as “a new method of communicating‚ employing computers as a collaborative tool to accelerate group information and escalate group scope and influence” (Kane et al‚ 2009‚ cited by Lin and Lu‚ 2011:1152). This
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concentrate on what the living being sitting right next to you is saying‚ when you have a virtual figure around? Ofcourse this does not mean that we do not want to interact with people. We are in need of attention and that is why all these social networking sites are booming. Then why is it that we find it so hard to interact with our family and find it easier to talk to someone who is just an acquaintance? Why do we run away from reality? I have started to believe that talking to someone face
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Dangers of Technology. MMORPGs have become a huge entertainment phenomenon. These Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games have become an everyday life for many humans around the nation. But are MMORPGs healthy? Many people may say that these online role playing games help make friends over the internet and others believe that the games may not. Some say the games take away ones ability to socialize with other humans on a day to day basis. “Gamers themselves may see MMORPGs as just any other
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Are social networking sites such as Facebook‚ MySpace‚ Twitter and LinkedIn good for society? Justify your position. Communication is what people do everyday; it is how people interact with each other‚ how they are able to form relationships‚ and how they are able to understand. However the way people communicate in the twenty first century as a result of social networking sites has changed rapidly. Social networking sites have revolutionised the way people communicate (Karklins & Dalton‚ 2012)
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Social Networking: The Anti-Social Element ? [pic] Launched on 4th February‚ 2004‚ Facebook is a social networking service and website having 600 million active users (as of January 2011). On March 11‚ 2010‚ Computer scientist‚ Dr. Irwin King told the Asia Society Hong Kong Center‚ "If Facebook is a nation‚ it would rank "third" in the world. Imagine the mass. Imagine what you can do to reach the "third" most populated nation in the world." Phew!!! With six hundred million registered
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Ebere By Ogechi Ebere Their Advantages‚ Abuses and Dangers. Their Advantages‚ Abuses and Dangers. The Use of Social Networking Sites The Use of Social Networking Sites Introduction: Human beings by and large are social. They feel an inherent need to connect and expand their connections. There is a deep rooted need among humans to share. In the past‚ due to geographical distances and economic concerns‚ connections between people were limited. A social network is made up of individuals that are connected
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Social networking is an online platform that facilitates on building social networks/relations among people who share similar interests‚ activities‚ backgrounds or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (which is often an online profile)‚ his/her social links‚ and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet‚ such as e-mail and instant messaging. Social networking
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utopian society that doesn’t have the dangers of cyber bullies or cyber bullying. No more headlines or news articles talking about the girl who killed herself because she was cyber bullied on a social networking site. In a society where you can relax and relinquish those thoughts at the back of your mind about what people think about you over that social networking site. Unfortunately‚ that’s fantasy‚ because teens are always using these sites‚ which can lead to a danger little by little every day. For
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