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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A DUI‚ driving under the influence‚ is the act of driving a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level‚ over the legal state limit. If you get arrested and change for a DUI the state will prosecute you accordingly. Then there are the offense your first offense is a typically resulting in the loss of license for 1 year as well as federally mandated outpatient alcohol abuse program and probation. Those who have had multiple DUI will be fully prosecuted‚ as if the person. The behavior of driving and driving
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PROBLEMS RELATED TO FACEBOOK Facebook has met criticism on a range of issues‚ including online privacy‚ child safety‚ hate speech and the inability to terminate accounts without first manually deleting the content. In 2008‚ many companies removed their advertising from the site because it was being displayed on the pages of controversial individuals and groups. The content of user pages‚ groups‚ blogs‚ and forums has been criticized for promoting or dwelling upon controversial and inflammatory topics
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1.) Currently Teletech Corporation uses 9.30% as their hurdle rate and satisfied with the intellectual relevance of a hurdle rate as an expression of the opportunity cost of money by the managers. As a result the firm’s share prices are inactive. Their price-to-earnings ratio is also below investor’s expectation in comparison to the company’s risk. The relationship between risk and return is important to take into consideration. The constant hurdle rate results in a flat line and doesn’t correlate
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Marketing to Kids: Why & How Marketers Target Kids Before discussing why and how marketers target kids‚ let us look at these facts: * Companies spend about $17 billion annually marketing to children‚ a staggering increase from the $100 million spent in 1983. * Children under 14 spend about $40 billion annually. Teens spend about $159 billion. * Teens between 13 and 17 have 145 conversations about brands per week‚ about twice as many as adults. * Children under 12 influence $500
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“Many leaders of big organisations‚ I think‚ do not believe that change is possible. But if you look at history‚ things do change‚ and if your business is static‚ you are likely to have issues” - Larry (Lawrence) Page Co- Founder & CEO of Google Inc DOB: 26 March 1973; East Lansing‚ Michigan US Nationality: American Residence: Palo Alto‚ California Post: Co-Founder and CEO of Google Inc Education: B.Sc. from University of Michigan & M.Sc. from Stanford University Awards: Marconi
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Table of content: 1) Abstract 2) What is social network 3) People on facebook 4) How do social networking sites affect the society • Advantages • Disadvantages 5) How does a social network such as facebook effect teenagers • Advantages of facebook on teenagers and friendship • Disadvantages of facebook on teenagers and their friendships 6) My survey and result • Survey questionnaire 7) Conclusion 8) Bibliography Abstract: In my project I
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Acquisition of WhatsApp WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging application which allows people to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. Last year‚ Facebook announced to acquire WhatsApp for a total of approximately $16 billion‚ including $4 billion in cash and approximately $12 billion worth of Facebook shares. The agreement also provides for an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to be granted to WhatsApp’s founders and employees that will vest over four years
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support the topic sentence of their paragraph. Often‚ the data presented in a graph or table show change over time. There are specific verbs‚ adjectives and adverbs that can help you describe these changes. For example: Verbs for describing how data have changed: • • • • to increase to go up to rise to climb • • • to remain (unchanged) to be steady to plateau • • • • to decrease to go down to decline to drop Adjectives and adverbs to describe how fast the change occurred: • • •
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following reasons that is for business purpose or leisure travel. It helps in increasing the international investment as well as tourism. The airlines have made it more comfortable to travel from one place to another‚ and now are offering reasonable rates. Affordable rates encourage people to travel further to new places. As a result‚ people have started traveling to new exotic destinations. Billions of passengers are traveling every year by way of the airline industry. The airline industry is not
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