Social Media Addiction: Effects on Mental Well-being By Wesley Poore wpoore@unomaha.edu The author is an undergraduate in the School of Communication‚ University of Nebraska at Omaha. This paper was written for a Social Media Metrics course in Spring‚ 2013. Social Media Addiction: Effects on Mental Well-being This paper will focus on Internet addiction and the potential psychological issues it can create for college students. The Internet is changing the way we live but not
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penetration (The Guardian‚ 2010). By December 2012‚ an estimated 8‚5 million people will have access to the internet(Internet World Stats‚2012). Social Media Social media is the various online tools available‚ which enable user to communicate and share resources (Jobsearch.about.com‚ 2013). Due to consumer demand and the popularisation of social media‚ South African online advertising grew by 32% in 2008(The Guardian‚ 2010). However‚ not everyone will continue to stay. Although‚ incentives such
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Social Media Policies Bobbi McGuire DeVry University Question 1: In my search for an article containing lawsuits involving employee posts on social media networks‚ I was quite surprised to learn how much of problem this has become. According to Melanie Trottman (2011) of the Wall Street Journal‚ employees that have been severely disciplined or terminated due to their activities on social media websites have been retaliating by use of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. This law provides
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Social Media Monitoring After schools on the west coast started monitoring students’ social media posts and comments; many opinions have come up. Many students feel that their privacy has been invaded and that their rights to freedom of speech have been taken away. For starters students didn’t even find out through the school that their social statues were going to be monitored by a third party company. Rumors came up around school that the school might be watching over them‚ but it wasn’t confirmed
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Scholarly Paper VS Social Media on Sexuality The article “When evidence is a crime” by Elizabeth Goitein is a case study about a Federal court decision to uphold the “don’t ask‚ don’t tell policy (DADT)” and violation of The First and Fifth Amendments. The court decision in “Holmes vs. California Army Nation Guard took place in 1997‚ which was fairly recent after the decision by former President Clinton who implemented the “Don’t ask Don’t Tell policy”. The case study argues that the continuing
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its privacy is generally looked down upon. However‚ according to Mark Zuckerberg‚ founder of Facebook‚ privacy loss is the “social norm” and is being accepted more readily as the online community has no strict privacy expectations anymore. Essentially‚ Zuckerberg is correct in the sense that as Facebook evolves and delivers more accessible features that connects the online social world‚ it should come at the expense of something‚ which usually comes in the form of our personal privacy. In February
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Paper (Spring 2017) The world today is obsessed with social media and internet sites such as: Twitter‚ Facebook‚ and Snap Chat. Many more social media websites are being created on a continuous basis. There are good aspects with these social media websites‚ but bad ones as well. Jessica Bennett’s article in Newsweek‚ writes about the flip side of internet fame. I believe we should all think about what we post‚ write or state on social media‚ as it can affect others dramatically. In Jessica’s article
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Hum of Insects – Robert Lynd As the hum of insects and noises of birds are associated with nature and seasons‚ so are they connected to our life‚ right from our childhood. When we grow up‚ these sounds occasionally pull us back to our childhood. In a way‚ our happiness‚ other than that achieved from people‚ has its origin in the nature‚ in spring and summer‚ in the hum and noises of insects and birds. The author begins with insects like bees‚ wasps and mosquitoes and analyse their behavior Insects
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Today the world is filled with all kinds of technology.This technology is fun to be a part of ‚but it can cause teens’ self esteem to go down. As social media becomes more popular it is hard to draw away from it. The pictures that people post can look so perfect sometimes‚ which causes teens to want to be like the picture. Social Media (Facebook‚Twitter) lowers teens self esteem because teens feel like they have to fit in. When teens get on to Facebook or Twitter and look at how many people have
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World of Social Media he number of individuals using social networking sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ LinkedIn‚ and YouTube is growing at an astounding rate. Facebook reports that over 10% of the world’s population has a Facebook presence while Twitter manages more than 140 million Tweets daily. Nurses are making connections using social media. Recently‚ the College of Nurses of Ontario reported that 60% of Ontario’s nurses engage in social networking (Anderson & Puckrin‚ 2011). Social networks
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