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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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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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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Cinderella – Sketchbook & Final Piece Evaluation For my theme‚ I decided to move away from the culture and journey aspect as I had just finished a topic on Africa‚ which I didn’t enjoy much. I decided to embark on fairytales. To start with I researched Aladdin‚ where I found images and drew Princess Jasmine‚ I then developed her hair barrel piece into a repeat pattern. I then thought that I couldn’t reach my full potential with this particular fairytale‚ so I moved onto Cinderella‚ as I found
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Running Header: Children on Facebook Children on Facebook EN3220 February 27‚ 2013 What is the problem? Bullying‚ Stalking‚ Unrealistic expectations‚ Skewed Realities‚ and Misunderstandings these are the problems that plague Social Networking Sites. These problems have always existed in the world‚ but now only have recently appeared in social networking sites. Early iterations of social networking sites appeared in the mid to late 90’s sites like Gecocites and Tripod‚ and Theglobe allowed
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THE EFFECTIVENESS AND PURPOSE OF FACEBOOK AMONG PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNT OWNERS Chapter 1 Introduction As a new generation‚ most of us use high end technologies to make our work easier and faster. There are a lot of technologies now a day. And it help us in means of communication/business activities‚ computer is one of this. Computer is one of an example of high end technologies where‚ not only professionals can use it but also teenagers. Yes‚ there is a website where we can use easily to
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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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To complete the group evaluation form several factors were considered to evaluate the overall performance of the group. This consists of determining the contribution of each group member to produce a high-quality final product. In particular‚ communication between each person needed to be considered as this correlated with the amount of work they provided. Attitude is an additional factor that is very important as the members that had a negative attitude would often avoid doing work which caused
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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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