Social Networking Pros & Cons The popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook‚ MySpace‚ Twitter‚ LinkedIn‚ and Classmates.com have rapidly increased almost 90% since 2002. These social networking sites allow users to develop profiles of their backgrounds and interests‚ communicate with people‚ and share thoughts‚ photos‚ links and even their life story. What makes these sites even more accessible‚ is the new sophisticated smartphone technology with built in internet capabilities.
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Social Networking; more harm than good. A social networking site can be defined as an online service that is based around the building and reflecting of social relations among individuals with common interests or social ties. Social networking sites such as Facebook‚ MySpace and Twitter are all different‚ yet the one main feature they have is that they enable users to create a profile within the website to represent themselves and allows users to interact through email‚ instant messaging and other
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literature and other related studies which bear significance to the present study. These are necessary in the analysis and interpretation of data found in this study. Related Literature Different researchers have conducted research to ascertain the influence of social media on users; Moon‚ (2011) in a study on “impact of Facebook on undergraduate academic performance”‚ averred that social media have negative impact on students. According to the result‚ the more students use Facebook‚ the more it
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Open Access The challenge of social networking in the field of environment and health Peter van den Hazel1*‚ Hans Keune2‚ Scott Randall3‚ Aileen Yang3‚ David Ludlow4‚ Alena Bartonova3 From HENVINET (Health and Environment Network) final conference Brussels‚ Belgium. 14 April 2010 - 15 April 2010 Abstract Background: The fields of environment and health are both interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary‚ and until recently had little engagement in social networking designed to cross disciplinary
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Social Networking‚ like a “two blade sword” Nowadays‚ social networking has apparently become an essential part of our daily life. For example‚ we use Facebook‚ Twitter to connect our friends‚ share stories‚ we go shopping on the internet and we can even make new friends on some websites. The social networking gives us much convenience‚ which we cannot deny. But in the meantime it makes people more indifferent to each other. In the essay “We Shall Overshare”‚ by the author Mary Katharine Ham
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computer or phone? Most likely‚ you check your Facebook‚ update your twitter and check out last nights photographs in which you were tagged. Take a look around‚ everyone of all ages are whipping out their smart phones to check the most recent updates. What was going on before Facebook? Myspace? Before that? None of that probably did not even exist yet or everyone was too young to even have a cell phone or know about these types of social networking. Today‚ kids are getting younger and younger
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count: 717 Social Networking: Important Factors of Facebook Facebook is a part of social networking‚ that everyone like regardless of age‚ gender and occupation. Social networking is becoming important part of student’s life; students could use Facebook to keep in touch with friends‚ family even with classmates discussing homework or group projects. The article “Facebook Addiction Spreads” by Angela Fowler is a great article points out some important facts about social media‚ also Michael Bugeja’s
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SOCIAL NETWORKING Section A A1. Summary of ‘Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook’. “Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook” is an article by Elizabeth Cohen. We first hear about the Facebook addicted Cynthia Newton‚ who is an single parent who spends about 20 hours a week on the social networking site –half time she use it for work‚ but the other time is just fun‚ she says. Newton gets so engulfed by it‚ that she totally forgets her 12-year-old daughter sometimes. The two
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A social networking site‚ is a website on the Internet that brings people to a central point to ‘talk’‚ share ideas and interest‚ collaborate and even make new friends. This type of sharing data and collaboration is referred to as social media. (Computer Hope n.d) The content created on social media sites is contributed too by hundreds or thousands of people and organizations. Members of social networking sites create online profiles with biographical data‚ or any other information they choose to
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Social networking is one of the most active web-based activities in the Philippines‚ with Filipinos being declared as the most activeusers on a number of web-based social network sites such as Friendster‚ Friendly‚ Facebook‚ Multiply‚ and Twitter. The use of social networking website has become so extensive in the Philippines that the country has been tagged as "The Social Networking Capital of the World‚" and has also become part of Filipino cyberculture. Social networking is also used in the Philippines
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