Summary: Social Networks such as Facebook‚ Twitter has slowly and surely become an inseparable part of our lives. They have allowed us to share and engage with our loved ones and friends and have made us happy while doing it. But does it create depression too? This post is all about trying to answer that question. Social Networking has become the norm of the modern world. People cannot live without it and it has surely become a part of every person’s life. It is really difficult to find someone
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1: How the social network is affecting us. Is it good or bad? 2: As of June 30‚ 2012‚ approximately 7 million people around the world have and use the Internet. The world region with the most amounts of users is currently Asia‚ which is about 45% of the population of Internet users. Following Asia is Europe‚ which is about 22% of the population of Internet users. In third‚ is North America‚ which is about 11% of the population of Internet users. 3: Even though these
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Social networks and education The advent of social networking platforms may also be impacting the way(s) in which learners engage with technology in general. For a number of years‚ Prensky’s (2001) dichotomy between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants has been considered a relatively accurate representation of the ease with which people of a certain age range—in particular those born before and after 1980—use technology. Prensky’s theory has been largely disproved‚ however‚ and not least on
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Social networking Social networks keep growing in the everyday use to share information or to interact with others. As information can be spread faster over a social media people tend to rely on that and more schools are making social networks part of their curriculum to discuss school topics. Social networking gives people the chance to interact with new people; it can also help those who are looking for jobs or those seeking to make a change in their community. Social networks have created communities
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Adverse Effects of Social Networking Outweigh its Uses. The worldwide internet users are fast approaching the 2 billion mark. (Internet Usage Statistics) With the increase in internet usage a trend which has seen radical spread in recent times is of social networking. Social networking websites are responsible for providing people with common platforms where they can interact with each other. Social networking websites are mostly free and allow the users to create their respective profiles
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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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Social networking‚ good or bad? Public websites geared toward creating a social network can be both positive‚ and negative. You can connect with people all over the world‚ with no fees such as land line long distance charges‚ cell phone‚ and text message charges. It is also beneficial in that you can connect with relatives you haven seen or spoken with in a while. But there are downfalls to such sites‚ and one of the major ones effecting teens and adults today‚ explicit photos‚ or inappropriate
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Parkside Drive‚ Jupiter‚ FL 33458-2906‚ USA b Department of Political Science‚ University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire‚ 105 Garfield Avenue‚ Eau Claire‚ WI 54702-4004‚ USA Abstract Many youth have recently embraced online social networking sites such as MySpace (myspace.com) to meet their social and relational needs. While manifold benefits stem from participating in such web-based environments‚ the popular media has been quick to demonize MySpace even though an exponentially small proportion of its users
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Social Networking In this report I will be outlining what Social Networking Sites are. A growing number of different Social Network Sites allows people to reunite and communicate without the limitations of distance or time. Enabling people to have regular interaction and keep up to date with the everyday life of others. So how do these sites work and why are they so popular? Associates may include close friends‚ family‚ distant relatives‚ old school friends‚ previous work colleagues or just shared
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everyone knows at least a social network‚ and almost everyone has at least an account on one of the most famous social networks: Facebook‚ twitter‚ myspace‚ etc. Some people have become addicted to these social networks. Social networking is ruling the lives of so many people in the world. Some people spend around 8 hours on these websites. So‚ social networking is not as good as we think it is. Some people have become addicted to Facebook‚ twitter‚ myspace‚ or another social network. Addicts that
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