New Research about Facebook Addiction Are you a social media enthusiast or simply a Facebook addict? Researchers from Norway have developed a new instrument to measure Facebook addiction‚ the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale. ON THE RISE: More and more people get addicted to social media‚ such as Facebook. Researchers at University of Bergen have created a scale to measure Facebook addiction. PHOTO: Colourbox. BY SVERRE OLE DRØNEN – The use of Facebook has increased rapidly. We are dealing
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Chapter I INTRODUCTION Rationale Facebook has become so much a part of our life now that it’s so prevalent across the world. With close to a billion users out there‚ one can easily throw a stone and hit a Facebook user. The amount of time users engage in Facebook activities‚ like updating statuses‚ posting photos‚ commenting and ‘liking’ posts has also been increasing with smartphones and 3G/Wi-fi networks becoming commonplace in recent years. Some people also find the time to enjoy some of
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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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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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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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users all over the world‚ and Facebook‚ a social networking platform that allows users to directly connect with millions of users all of the world‚ each feed a specific niche of online social networking. While they may be different enough for both of them to coexist in the competitive online world‚ they also possess deep similarities. Both Facebook and Twitter are social network sites designed to allow users to connect with other users over the Internet. Facebook users connect with other users
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communication and build better relationships with family‚ old and new friends. Facebook in particular is one of the most popular social networking sites. It provides a wide range of connection methods for users to interact with those people that they care about and to update status or photos on the website. The website was established by Mark Zuckerberg and his college friends in February 2004. It is owned and operated by Facebook Inc. The company has continued to develop and increase potentiality over
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As Facebook expands‚ with 250 million users posting 1 billion pieces of content every week‚ the site continues to draw sharp criticism from privacy advocates‚ lawyers‚ and governments over how it uses the data that members regularly – and often cavalierly – post onto the site. This week five California Facebook users joined the chorus of critics. In a lawsuit filed Monday‚ they charge that Facebook – the Web’s dominant social networking ecosystem – unlawfully used their private information or
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Topic: Facebook and illuminati Submitted to: Sir. Fahid Munir Submitted by: * Maliha Habib 18 * Sadia Abbas 29 * Syeda Momna Ali 47 * Asma Irfan 34 * Ayesha Ansari 37 What is a Facebook? Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004‚ owned and operated by Facebook‚ Inc. As of May 2012‚ Facebook has over 900 million active
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The word “Population Growth” has its origin from the latin words ‘Populus’ meaning people. According to ecological term; “population is group of people of the same species occupying a particular space”. Population is subdivided further into demes or local population which is group of interbreeding organism in demes; they share a common gene pool. Population density is defined as a number of individual per unit area or per unit volume of environment. When the size of the individual is uniform the
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