Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Nowadays‚ almost everyone connects through social networking sites. I¶ve heard people tell an acquaintance‚ ³Yeah‚ I think I¶ve seen you in (insert site here)!´. Surprisingly‚ that gets the conversation going especially if you share the same interests as your New Found Friend (Villaraza‚ 2007). Nowadays‚ online networking is not only about friendship‚ but also about different possibilities which it provides to its users. Friendster‚ which is one
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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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Privacy Issues and Monetizing Twitter Strengths The first strength that Twitter has is its large amount of users. Twitter has hundreds of millions of users and the number continues to go. This is a quality strength because it give Twitter a large audience to send information to. It is a powerful thing to have such a large base of people all under one system. Twitter can utilize large group of people in multiple ways. The size also makes Twitter appealing to other outlets and companies. The amount
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Kate Rohani Professor Keogh Intro to Sociology 20 September 2012 The Effects of Twitter Usage in America In a material world like ours today‚ cultural expressions are crossing all borders and affecting traditions and customs of societies more and more. Many new innovations are introduced and carried all around the world‚ changing the ways people view things and the way they live. No matter how small‚ the inventions always have social consequences attached to them. All of these innovations
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Privacy settings of facebook Privacy of Facebook In creating a account in facebook ‚ it is easy ‚ you must fill up the form ‚ it includes the personal information of yours. In the privacy settings‚ there are questions for example “who can see my stuffed?” this is a example of privacy question ‚ you can choose‚ first public if you want all of the users of facebook can see this‚ second friends – all of your facebook friends will see what did you post and lastly only me – no one can
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offered Facebook a $ 750 million in 2006 but was turned down and the same year Yahoo! Attempted to buy it for $1 billion but got refused too and it finally decided to become public because it crosses threshold of 500 shareholders according to the Reuters Financial blogger Felix Salmon. As Facebook finally went public‚ it had to filed for an initial public offering on February 1‚2012 by filling the document with the securities and exchange commission and to ensure the early investor of Facebook would
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Management CASE STUDY Contemporary Strategic Analysis of Facebook in Russia Subject: Contemporary Strategic Analysis Authors: Group Seven of all kinds (Anne-Gaëlle Le Gal‚ Hildegunn Nesje‚ Andreja Ojsteršek‚ Nikolay Semakov‚ Roman Shapurko‚ Elena Shatalova (Zlochevskaya)‚ Julia Shmeleva) Fall semester 2012 Mentor: Andrei Yu. Panibratov‚ Professor‚ Doctor in Economics‚ MBA Table of Contents Introduction 3 Social Networks Overview 5 The History of the Social Network Sites 6 Facebook overview
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networking fatigue. In the essay‚ “Do I Really Have to Join Twitter” by Farhad Manjoo explained we can join Twitter if we wanted to know how it would turn out to be like. As Farhad Manjoo once stated: "Twitter is a cinch to get into...(Manjoo par. 6). In other words‚ Twitter is easy to access all someone would
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[pic] What is it? Why use it? And what are the advantages and disadvantages of Twitter? Twitter is an online application that cannot be defined as one single tool. As such‚ this application is part a blog‚ part a social networking site and part cell phone/IM tool‚ designed to let users answer the question: “What are you doing?”. Users have 140 characters for each posting (or “tweet”) to say whatever they care to say. Many tweets do answer the question of what the user is doing‚ but plenty
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COMPANY OVERVIEW Facebook Inc. is a social network platform‚ which enables users to share ideas‚ opinions‚ pictures and activities. The company primarily operates in the US and has presence across the world. Facebook is headquartered in Melno Park‚ California and employed 3‚539 people by the end of March 31‚ 2012. The company builds products that support social networking and provide utility to its users‚ platform developers‚ and advertisers. Facebook users utilize the company’s products to
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