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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Daniel Holder‚ 16 April 2006 Page 1 Ethnographic Study of the Effects of Facebook.com on Interpersonal Relationships By: Daniel S. Holder University of Chicago Abstract: This paper attempts to assess the effects of Facebook.com‚ a social networking website‚ on interpersonal relationships via the unique “birthday” feature on the site. The study finds that this technology augments existing relationships and social obligations. The study also suggests the network becomes part of the user’s “trans-active
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Summary: Facebook was originally made so people could strengthen their relationships by communicating with their friends even if they were far away. Recently‚ studies have shown that people with low self-esteem have been updating negative statuses‚ leaving awful comments on their friend’s pictures‚ and writing terrible things on their walls for everyone to see. People with low self-esteem are more likely to like Facebook because it gives them the opportunity to confront someone without coming face to
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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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Taylor: Essay: Why facebook is bad. Essay: Why facebook is bad. I believe that facebook is bad. In this essay I will tell that Facebook wastes time‚ occupies the hosts mind and is not‚ no matter what people say is not the same as actual social interaction. Facebook is not my friend and neither should it be yours‚ My first reason why facebook is not my friend is because that it wastes everybody time. Now my argument is just armed at facebook‚ but also the people who make facebook games‚ Zynga is
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Impact Facebook Egyptian revolution Many people around the world remember that day when hundreds of Egyptians were gathered on the Tahrir square in Cairo‚ trying to improve the future of Egypt. This scenario was not only noticeable in Egypt‚ but citizens from many Arab countries came together and demonstrated in order to improve the policy in their countries. It is argued that in for mation and communication technologies‚ such as the internet‚ social media and mobile phones have played an important
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One of the most recent notable M&A deals is “Facebook acquiring Instagram”. This acquisition is a critical move of Facebook due to the 2 main reasons: the deal size of $1 bn that Facebook spent for a startup app developer‚ of which $300 mn in cash and the remainder in Facebook Class B stock after the IPO and the financial effect the deal created just before Facebook IPO. At the time of the acquisition‚ Facebook was a network of a billion users yet still struggling with monetizing. On the other
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Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook on Febuary 4th‚ 2004. Facebook has grown globally and used every day by approx. 1 billion users. Originally known as facemash‚ and thefacebook.com‚ facebook has overcame many challenges to become what it is today. Facebook was originally created for college students to share and compare notes at Harvard University. As of 2010 Facebook was the 3rd largest company known worldwide‚ surpassing ebay in mid 2010. Anyone can become a user on the social network worldwide
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Social Network: an online community of people with a common interest who use a Web site or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information‚ resources(dictionary.com). There are almost 500 million users of social networks and spent over 700 billion minutes a month using them. Is this hindering our social skills? There are many ways that people interact with each other such as e-mail‚ texting‚ a social network but the least used interaction is face to face. A negative impact
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