out that there are also people 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
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Introduction Social networking became integral part of our life. Year after year the limits of the social networks broaden with the instruction of technologies‚ among which one of the strongest became Internet. It splits the borders between nations and countries and reduces distances and time. With the help of social networking we are free to share any information of particular interest between people of the same interests at any time we would like. However‚ when it comes to the statement of being
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The Effects of Social Networking People all over the world seem to be connected more than ever. This is easily done through social networking sites‚ whether there chatting away in a laptop‚ iPad‚ or smart phone. Many individuals spend countless of hours in these sites daily. Though it possess some advantages individuals must be cautious when using these sites. Social networking sites have many disadvantages that not many know of‚ such as health problems‚ safety issues‚ and lack of privacy. One
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Today’s social media websites such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ or Instagram are common household names. They provide a fast communication between one another using chat‚ instant messaging‚ videos‚ or photos. Over the years‚ social networking sites have gradually expanded causing them to transform from basic sites to complex and popular ones. In 1997‚ the internet slowly became more popular. It soon attracted more users giving people a desire to connect with friends and family members more often at a
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Social media is a way of connecting people or a medium for sharing ones ideas. It’s technologies takes different forms like internet‚ blogs‚ forums‚ social networks etc. The qualities social media possess are reach‚ accessibility‚ immediacy‚ permanence. Today’s younger generation depend on social media completely as they prefer to be connected with the world through social networks like facebook‚ twitter etc. If we look up the statistics 93% of youth are active users of internet and 73%
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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
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History 7 March 2013 The Positive Effects of Social Media In the winter of 2004‚ a networking site based out of Harvard University known as Facebook‚ launched. Drawing from its predecessors‚ such as MySpace‚ the site made social media relevant to the masses. This began the era of Social Media. Two years later‚ another social networking site‚ Twitter‚ came onto the virtual scene‚ bringing with it more than 500 million users in just over five years. With social media phenomena gaining popularity worldwide
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Impact of Social Media on Personal Relationships Introduction Social media has had a major influence on society in the 21st century‚ enabling people to engage with each other in radically new and different ways. In less than a decade‚ it has transformed how we stay in touch with friends‚ shop‚ network and gather our news. Many of the almost 1 billion users of Facebook — and the millions who use Twitter‚ or blogs — cannot imagine communicating without these tools. Hence‚ there is a great impact
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Social Networking Social networking is the rage of this age. Social networks are formed when people sharing certain interests including hobbies‚ religion‚ politics‚ etc.‚ coalesce into groups or communities. In modern times it refers more to online communities because this is where most social networks tend to exist. To facilitate such social networking‚ there are many websites. These social networking sites include Facebook‚ MySpace‚ Orkut‚ Twitter‚ Fropper‚ etc. Such sites help people to keep in
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Social Media Invasion of Personal Privacy By: Jacovah Ling Date: 11/1/2013 What happen to the days of writing a letter‚ personal conversing‚ or talking on the telephone? With the invention of social media these conventional ways of communication has become almost non-existed. I could recall my middle school years of writing love letters to little girls and passing funny notes to others students in the classroom. Technology has made communication less interpersonal and more complex
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