Social networking sites Online social networking site is a very common tool for communicating and socializing with each other. Nowadays‚ most of the adolescent like to use Facebook. There is a rapid growth of the number of user of social networking sites. According the recent research‚ Kreutz (2009) stated that “starting from 1997 to 2010 there are some 1.5 billion users of social networking websites” (p.222). This shows that how popular the social networking site is. Although many parents think
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Chapter I The Problem and Its Background Introduction Social Networking Sites (SNS) is one of the most‚ trendiest topics talked about by the students in College. When people think of social networking sites‚ the first things that often come to mind are Facebook and Twitter but there are more like Friendster‚ MySpace‚ and Plurk. Social Networking Sites help us to communicate with our friends‚ classmates‚ and relatives but they also allow us to communicate with other people who share common interests
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Response to “Social Sites Becoming too Much of a Good Thing” In the article “Social Sites Becoming too Much of a Good Thing‚” the author explains how social networking sites have become what they are now. Since 2002 social networking has become an addiction between all age groups. These sites are used to keep in touch with friends‚ to express oneself online‚ to make new friends‚ and in some cases to write about an animal. Ellen Lee shows that social networking sites are booming
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First of all‚ let us understand what it is we are debating here. We are debating social networking sites. Not just one or two specific sites‚ like Facebook‚ or Myspace‚ but social websites as a whole. So let us put forth a strong definition to fit the topic. Social Networking Site: Any websites which facilitates communication between two or more individuals. So what we are really talking about here is communication between human beings‚ online‚ rather than through any other medium (telephone
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Social networking sites are popular amongst student recent years. Some of the popular social networking websites are Facebook‚ Twitter & Google+. Almost all the students would definitely have a profile in those sites. These facebook like sites will be taken up by students as for fun but some may start using it as fun and gets addicted to it. This article shows you the advantages and disadvantages of social networking sites for students. Advantages: Here is a list of advantages of using the social
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who notice about the way social networking sites dominate students’ life. This people are part of a college of art and science group‚ they made an online survey to 960 students of different racial and economic backgrounds and academic abilities that are currently in their high school senior year and are going to go to college on the fall of 2009. But unlike the researchers aim to find out the effects of social networking sites‚ the group aims to find out how these sites affect the decisions students
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SixDegrees.com was the first social site from 1997 to 2001. It was followed in 2002 by Friendster and MySpace a year later. Started by two friends‚ MySpace became extremely popular‚ and its parent company‚ Intermix‚ was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million two years after MySpace was launched. See MySpace and Friendster. Facebook came out in 2004 targeting college students‚ but when it opened to everyone‚ it grew exponentially to become the top social site. Two years later‚ Twitter was
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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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Introduction Background of the Study A social networking service is an online service on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among students. Through social networking people can use network of online friends and group memberships to keep in touch with current friends‚ reconnect with old friends or create new friendships through similar interest or groups. Besides‚ establishing social relationships‚ social networking member can share interests and their ideas
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The use of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have increased dramatically over the past years. Prepared for Dr. Thi Lip Sam NAME: NUR KHAIRIAH MUHAMMAD MATRIC NO: 814827 MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA ATC/UUM SerembanTable of Contents TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l "_Toc402116437" Abstract PAGEREF _Toc402116437 \h 2 Case Questions PAGEREF _Toc402116438 \h 2Social Media History PAGEREF _Toc402116439 \h 2Statistics of Social Media Usage PAGEREF
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