"Is Social Networking a distraction or a valuable tool that can facilitate an improved quality of life?" Right off the bat‚ any help that one can get from taking the globalised world to our fingers tips would only serve to benefit Social Bad: Sexting and perverts at our doorsteps Good: The Skype program in teens in Brazil speak with English pensioners. Education Widens the geographical area of what can be defined as a classroom Personal experience I’ve asked that instead of buying the book
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Social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook‚ blogs and Twitter have grown increasingly popular in recent years. In particular‚ Facebook has become the most visited SNS in the world with more than 800 million active users (Facebook‚ 2011‚ cited by Lee et al‚ 2012:1036). SNS can be defined as “a new method of communicating‚ employing computers as a collaborative tool to accelerate group information and escalate group scope and influence” (Kane et al‚ 2009‚ cited by Lin and Lu‚ 2011:1152). This
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concentrate on what the living being sitting right next to you is saying‚ when you have a virtual figure around? Ofcourse this does not mean that we do not want to interact with people. We are in need of attention and that is why all these social networking sites are booming. Then why is it that we find it so hard to interact with our family and find it easier to talk to someone who is just an acquaintance? Why do we run away from reality? I have started to believe that talking to someone face
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contacted at guy.hnd@gmail.com. Social Networks and Privacy—Threats and Protection “Broadcast yourself!” YouTube’s slogan alone could summarize the spirit of the social revolution caused by the tidal wave of social networks. These have emerged as one of the main channels of communication on the web: links of all kinds are being forged‚ developed and broken almost instantly. According to a study1 published in France by the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) on social networks‚ carried out using
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Social Networking: The Anti-Social Element ? [pic] Launched on 4th February‚ 2004‚ Facebook is a social networking service and website having 600 million active users (as of January 2011). On March 11‚ 2010‚ Computer scientist‚ Dr. Irwin King told the Asia Society Hong Kong Center‚ "If Facebook is a nation‚ it would rank "third" in the world. Imagine the mass. Imagine what you can do to reach the "third" most populated nation in the world." Phew!!! With six hundred million registered
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Social networking is an online platform that facilitates on building social networks/relations among people who share similar interests‚ activities‚ backgrounds or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (which is often an online profile)‚ his/her social links‚ and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet‚ such as e-mail and instant messaging. Social networking
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Effects of Social Media Use on Relationship Satisfaction 1 A Study of the Effects of Social Media Use and Addiction on Relationship Satisfaction Kathryn Porter Jessica Mitchell Meghan Grace Shawna Shinosky Valerie Gordon Chapman University Effects of Social Media Use on Relationship Satisfaction Abstract Based on traditional theories of relationship satisfaction and Internet dependency‚ this study examined the relationship between social media use and addiction to interpersonal relationship
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Social Media and Social Networking Technologies Many social networking sites can assist our ecommerce business. They are under two categories: Personal and Professional. Here are a few: 1. Personal a. Facebook b. Twitter c. MySpace 2. Professional d. LinkedIn e. Sprouter f. Xing There are five ways Social Media will increase our ecommerce business. 1. By using social media‚ to promote our ecommerce business‚ we increase our customer base
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Business Research Methodology A Study On Impact Of Social Networking Sites On Our Life Impact Of Social Networking Sites On Our Life ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL This Report Has Been submitted in the partial fulfilment of the requirements of PGPM program of IBS Gurgaon Submitted To‚ Prof. Vipin Khurana Submitted By‚ Avinash Kumar Singh 12BSP1658 Pankaj Sharma 12BSP0825 Atul Kesharwani
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Objective Objectives of the study are as follows: 1. To translate Social Connectedness Scale into Urdu language. 2. To assess factor structure and psychometric properties of scale. 3. To establish cross language validation of Urdu translation of Social Connectedness Scale. 4. To find out convergent and discriminant validity evidence. Phase I Translation of Social Connectedness Scale For translating Social Connectedness Scale into Urdu three guidelines recommended by Brislin (1980) was followed.
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