Behavior journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/comphumbeh Social networking on smartphones: When mobile phones become addictive Mohammad Salehan 1‚⇑‚ Arash Negahban 1 College of Business‚ University of North Texas‚ 1307 West Highland Street‚ Denton‚ TX 76201‚ USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Available online 27 July 2013 Keywords: Mobile addiction Social networking services (SNS) Mobile applications Social networking mobile applications a b s t r a c t As the penetration of mobile
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Imagine yourself in a locality surrounded by strangers- a new city‚ a new state yet‚ no more totally strange. Check-in Yo!‚ update your profile and you are all set for the location. The location based social networking app Yo!Buddy is making you familiar with the society and locale wherever you are. You can see the like-minded interests and hobbies pursuant‚ neighbors and have chance to communicate with them. If you think you are not familiar with the ones you desire to go ahead and say ‘hello’
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Sarah Sutherland Professor Garner English 1020 7 March 2013 Social Networking and the Benefits of Being Connected Controversy with social media networking sites is not a new issue by any means. What seems to be on a lot of people’s minds is just how it is being used. There are always pro’s and con’s with any source of media being used whether it is utilizing social networking sites for professional use such as job searching‚ socially sharing information while keeping in touch with family
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about the independence struggle; he was talking about social networking. Good Morning ladies and gentlemen‚ we are here today to discuss ‘Are social networking sites doing us any good?’ What baffles me is exactly why we need a discussion on the topic. I see the good all around me‚ don’t you? I see it in the increasing literacy rates‚ which according to the National Literacy Trust‚ are directly co-related to children’s engagement with social media. I see it in the cultural convergence that the entire
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Dr. Matt Godbey WRD 110 6 December 2012 The Effects of Social Networking on Our Society The use of electronic and social media has become a staple in our society. No matter where one travels one can have access to this great resource. But has this accessibility and dependence upon electronic and social media gone too far? Is this passion for instant gratification affecting our ability to communicate with those around us on a personal level? Another question to ask is whether or not this constant
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Hidden Dangers of Social Networking for Kids What can be more dangerous than millions of kids connecting with millions of strangers? Kids 12 and under are spending 6 1/2 to 7 hours a week on Facebook‚ Instagram‚ and Twitter. Many parents don’t mind their kids participating in these types of social medias‚ but many of them also don’t know what’s going on‚ what they are doing‚ and who they are talking to. When these 12 and 11 year old kids join the social networking‚ they have no idea
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back were found through Facebook? Yes‚ it did happen last year in California and a guy was arrested on the charge of kidnapping two innocent children. Over the past few years‚ social networking websites such as Facebook‚ Twitter and MySpace have exploded in popularity‚ especially among children and teenagers. Social Networking‚ a word so common among youngsters in the present days has somewhat taken over their world. It has become so popular among the hip and young society of today‚ that it has become
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most of us can’t imagine going a day without logging on the internet or using our mobile phones. Social networking has become a norm in our society‚ with websites like Facebook‚ Twitter‚ Instagram and many more holding a unique and vital role in our daily lives. The idea behind social networking is to enable us to hold better contact with friends and family‚ and connect with new people. Social networking has without a doubt contributed to many positive things‚ but browsing these sites also has its
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1 Background Social networking has brought a great change in to the way people build relations with others. These sites are online platforms where users can create profiles to provide personal information‚ exchange individual ideas and share their interests with the others. Through social networking sites‚ people can keep in touch with friends despite the long distance and daily bustle. In this way‚ networking sites change the old communication pattern that people
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explosion of social networks such as Myspace and Facebook‚ which added a new social dimension to the web. While such networks have made people‚ communities and groups with shared interests stay more “connected‚” Internet addiction and social network addiction in particular also started being recognized as psychological disorders all over the world. While several 90′s studies focused on Internet addiction‚ the next decade saw the growth of a new addiction related to all manner of social networking sites
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