Digital Footprints What Is Your Digital Footprint? Your digital footprint is everything on the Internet that’s about you. This could include your profile on Facebook or MySpace‚ photos that you or your friends & family have posted online‚ as well as anything you have ever written on discussion boards‚ blogs or anywhere else. • Are you aware of your own digital footprint? • Is there anything online that you wouldn’t want a prospective employer to see? Other people‚ including potential
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their ears. Would it seem terribly strange then to hear that students indeed are doing these things regularly outside of their classrooms? Every day‚ many students are spending countless hours immersed in popular technologies—such as Facebook or MySpace‚ World of Warcraft‚ or Sim City—which at first glance may seem like a waste of time‚ and brain cells. But these genres of technologies— Social Networking‚ Digital Gaming‚ and Simulations—deserve a second‚ deeper‚ look at what’s actually going on.”[1]
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social media so you’ll be aware of how to use it in the safest and most valuable possible ways! Advantages of Social Networking Sites: 1) Low Cost Communication (essentially free) If you go on to social networking sites such as Facebook‚ Bebo or MySpace‚ you can send messages back and forth to multiple friends at once‚ absolutely free from charge (apart from the cost of actually running the internet‚ and computer etc.). 2) Making New Friends You are given the opportunity to make new friends via
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Social Networking Sites: Harmful to our Society Social networking websites‚ such as MySpace‚ Facebook and Twitter‚ have blown up immensely in just a short span of about 5 years; most people nowadays have found that these and other social networking sites have become a “necessity” in their lives and must constantly be checking in on them. Social networking sites such as the ones mentioned above allow anyone to make new friends‚ reconnect with old ones‚ and blog just about anything under the sun
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most fanatic users of these sites. According to various research studies in the field of online social networks‚ it has been revealed that these sites are impacting the lives of the youth greatly. When using these sites such as Twitter‚ Facebook or MySpace‚ there are both positive and negative effects on the youth. POSITIVE IMPACTS It is inevitable to ignore the fact that nowadays social network plays an essential role in teenagers’ lives. Most youths are spending at least an hour in these popular
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children? There are many upsides to the Internet. ... Middle Another factor which may put some people off the Internet as a whole is the distraction it is to young people‚ mainly teenagers. They can get sidetracked into chatting to friends on MSN or Myspace. Many children have stated that instead of doing homework or coursework‚ they often get distracted into other things. Some parents do not let their children use the Internet other than for homework and research‚ purely because of the fact that it
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Impact of Social Networking on Students CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Social networking websites are a must for the Internet community to stay in touch with each other Social networking web sites help people keep in touch with old friends‚ make new friends‚ distribute new data or product‚ and many more aspects of our everyday lives. We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to: (1) Construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded
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February 13‚ 2011 Cyber Bullying When social networking websites were created in the 20th century they were used as a way for people to “stay connected and share with friends”‚ and they provided others with “a place for friends”. Pre-teens and young adults were drawn to these websites and they began to use these sites to communicate with each other. As the popularity of the social networks increased so did privacy issues. The online article “Why we’ll never Escape Facebook” James Cowan states
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Suicide: noun 1. The taking of one’s own life 2. Deliberately killing oneself Suicide is a permanent solution more often than not to a temporary problem‚ and sadly over the past ten years the number of teen suicides has risen. How much of a factor is new technology in this rise is hotly debated by parents and psychologist the world over. “The debate is not about how technological advancements like smart phones and high-speed internet and their availability to young people have changed the
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people‚ logged in I’ll “Facebook” You Later: The Effects of Facebook in Young People’s Lives During 2008‚ I remember talking to my friend Patricia and she told me: “Hey Cynthia‚ nobody is using MySpace now. They’re all moving to Facebook; it’s kind of the same thing‚ but I’m just letting you know that you need to get on the trend.” Trusting her‚ I visited the Facebook website and created my own profile. My first “post” was a picture of my dad and
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