PROS Advantages and examples Lets start with all of the things that make facebook a great thing to have. First of all it has a highest users percentage of all social sites ‚ which means there is good chance that most of your friends‚ schoolmates‚ co-workers or relatives will have a facebook profile that you can interact with. Facebook is one of the greatest sides to communitace in any way. You can chat with your friends‚ you can even send a private message to people who arent your frineds
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Case Study: Face Book 1. Why do people use Facebook and what do they do when they are there? What are the implications of this behaviour-for individuals‚ for organisations and for Facebook? According to a recent report‚ the total number of users of Facebook has reached one billion already in October 2012 (Piskorski et al. 2013). This number is more than the population of Europe and people spend more than 10 billion minutes per day on Facebook (Wilson‚ Gosling and Graham 2012‚ 203). People cannot
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SGMT 6050 – Mergers and Acquisitions Facebook IPO Facebook‚ a social networking site‚ has grown at an exponential rate that far surpasses market expectation‚ so much so that its growth rate is referred to as the “ Facebook phenomenal”. In 2004‚ Facebook had 1million monthly active users‚ and in comparison‚ it had reached 845million monthly active users in 2011. This phenomenal led to one of the biggest initial public offerings (IPO) the market had seen in recent years‚ with total capital raised
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Topic: Privacy Restrictions of Facebook – Unquestionable or Unachievable Date of Submission: 25th October 2010 It is alarming how fast technology is improving. Nowadays‚ it seems like having a Facebook account is a daily necessity or even a trend. According to a research done by TIMES magazine‚ more than one in four people who browse the Internet not only have a Facebook account but have returned to the site in the past thirty days. It is truly alarming how much Facebook has expanded. “Sometime in
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Facebook‚ Inc: The Initial Public Offering 1. How does Facebook make money? What are the value drivers of its business? What is its comparative advantage relative to other social networking companies? (1) Facebook makes money from the following three main fields First is the advertising. According to the case‚ we know that the major revenue of Facebook is advertising‚ which took up 98 percent in 2009‚ 95 percent in 2010 and 85 percent in 2011. Facebook uses all information uploaded
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Question > Why do people use Facebook and what do they do when they are there? The social networking website fulfill 2 needs 1) Need for belongingness 2) Need for presenting yourself to the world/surroundings Internet based services like Facebook gives some capabilities to the individual to present themselves to the world and share events/photos etc. to the outside world. Initially Facebook started with an idea for interacting students of a common school‚ but now it becomes so large
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explict content on fan pages another reason i think facebook should be banned is because children accept random peoples friend requests‚ with them not knowing that behind the screen cpuld be somebody as twisted as a phedophile. children play gamesbon facebook filled with spammers‚ hackers‚ and viruses‚ and waste energy which could be used for something useful to the earth‚ such as paying for new inventions to cure cancer‚ diabetes‚ etc. Facebook is becoming overly addictive to young children‚ and
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SCRIPT LEWIS: FACEBOOK IS A GREAT WAY FOR PEOPLE TO MEET NEW PEOPLE‚ OLD FRIENDS‚ OLD CLASSMATES OR EVEN WORKMATES AND KEEP UP TO DATE WITH WHAT THEYRE DOING. THERE ARE MANY ADVANTAGES TO FACEBOOK SUCH AS IT ALLOWS PARENTS TO CHECK UP ON THEIR CHILDREN TO MAKE SURE THEYRE NOT MIXING WITH THE WRONG GROUP OF PEOPLE. ASWELL AS KEEPING UP TO DATE WITH CURRENT EVENTS. FOR EXAMPLE BARACK OBAMA USES FACEBOOK TO GET OUT HIS MESSAGE TO THE MILLIONS OF USERS OF FACEBOOK AND HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS OFTEN
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Dictionary declared “Facebook” as the Word of the Year in 2009. Based on my eight years of experience as a Facebook member with about 2500 friends on the social network‚ I decided to classify my friends into four different types of categories. These four categories are addicts‚ lovers‚ regulars and those that don’t really care for it but they are tired of people telling them to open a Facebook account. First‚ I have the “Addicts”‚ whom are those that couldn’t survive without Facebook in their lives
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Facing the Facebook “Response” I’ve realized technology is very helpful now days but in the classrooms it’s more distracting than anything else. As Michael J. Bugeja stated in “Facing the Facebook”‚ Academics assessing learning outcomes often discover that technology is as much a distraction in the classroom as a tool. I catch myself checking my phone in class every now and then but when I do I miss out on what the instructor is teaching. Technology is a great tool for us to learn and gather information
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