FACEBOOK ADDICTION AMONG STUDENTS * “I’ll just check facebook once before I start studying” is what the students tell themselves and they end up online for hours. Every day‚ millions of students go on a social media website. To many of them‚ social media is like a drug. There’s a euphoric high that comes from having a new notification or post‚ like the high from a snort of cocaine or smoke of marijuana. The lows of not being able to check it when they want is like the draw of an addictive drug
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Is Facebook boosting or hindering communication? Facebook is the most famous commonly used social media. It has become the preferred method for keeping in touch with people. Almost every young person has at least one Facebook account. However useful it might be in social life and education‚ Facebook brought about a set of new barriers and threats in these areas. There is an irony in the sense that social media‚ like Facebook‚ has the ability to make us less social. Doubtless it may be stimulating
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2/21/13 Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Stephen Marche - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/308930/ 1/8 Print | Close • SUBSCRIBE • RENEW • GIVE A GIFT • DIGITAL EDITION Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? SOCIAL MEDIA—FROM FACEBOOK TO TWITTER—HAVE MADE US MORE DENSELY NETWORKED THAN EVER. YET FOR ALL THIS CONNECTIVITY‚ NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT WE HAVE NEVER BEEN LONELIER (OR MORE NARCISSISTIC)—AND THAT THIS LONELINESS IS MAKING US MENTALLY
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In Daniel Lyons The High Price of Facebook‚ he states the issue of privacy. Facebook makes their money through selling personal information to advertisers Lyons argues that Facebook is not a free service and states "The fear is that people are being lured into Facebook with the promise of a fun‚ free service‚ and don’t realize they’re paying for it by giving up loads of personal information." (par. 2). Senior Vice President of communications‚ Elliot Scharge disagrees saying that their privacy changes
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RUNNING A BUSINESS PAGE ON FACEBOOK P1: If you want to run a business page on facebook‚ the first thing you need to do is that create an accout by click link facebook.com and fill in the infomation to register P2: Click on “Create a Page” on bottom left-hand side of the Facebook homepage (Note: it’s important to start this process LOGGED OUT of Facebook if you do have a personal facebook page). Choose from“local business"‚ "brand/product/organization"‚ or "artist/band/public figure” under “create
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Facebook didn’t invade our privacy; We already let Facebook in I was taught long ago that opening a paper with a definition is the easy way out when it comes to shaping your argument‚ so I apologize in advance to all of those former professors who may be offended. But alas this is a definition that has been twisted so much recently‚ that I had to look it up for myself. Privacy(noun) the state of being private; retirement or seclusion. the state of being free from intrusion or disturbance
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Impact of Facebook and Twiiter on youth Facebook‚ MySpace‚ Twitter and other social networking sites are a godsend to kids and teens who want to get in touch and know what is going on with their friends or relatives. By just opening a website‚ they can communicate with and learn about all the people who are important to them (at least those who are signed in to the same network). IT has both good and bad effects : BAD EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING ON KIDS · Facebook and other networking
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Facebook has hit out at the practice of employers asking for access to the accounts of their staff and potential hires. The social network’s chief privacy officer Erin Egan called the practice "distressing" and threatened legal action against companies that violate its users’ privacy. "If you are a Facebook user‚ you should never have to share your password‚ let anyone access your account‚ or do anything that might jeopardize the security of your account or violate the privacy of your friends
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Brief communications: Hendrix et al. Use of Facebook in academic health sciences libraries Dean Hendrix‚ MLIS; Deborah Chiarella‚ MLS; Linda Hasman‚ MSLS; Sharon Murphy‚ MLS‚ RN; Michelle L. Zafron‚ MLS See end of article for authors’ affiliations. DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.97.1.008 INTRODUCTION Originally founded to link students at Harvard University‚ the social networking application‚ Facebook‚ has evolved into the most visited social networking site in the world with over 90 million active
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Summary: Facebook‚ a company grew up from a small network site to a $50 billion company‚ gets almost all the revenue from advertising. The only things Facebook has are the hundreds millions accounts. Because of the large database of customers‚ Facebook have so many valuable details information for advertising‚ which make Facebook earn a lot. Also‚ Facebook help people connect each other easily. However‚ this may not be good for Facebook user because Facebook grab users information with or without
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