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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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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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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Facebook‚ Myspace‚ and follow people on Twitter‚ email‚ texting‚ but we never stop to think that there is something that is just not there. Social Networking has become our main source of communication. What ever happened to picking up the phone or going over to your loved one’s homes to ask them a question? Instead we send them a message via a social network and wait for a response. We have the ability to see what is going on in the lives of people we would never really talk to face-to-face. Why
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Social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook‚ blogs and Twitter have grown increasingly popular in recent years. In particular‚ Facebook has become the most visited SNS in the world with more than 800 million active users (Facebook‚ 2011‚ cited by Lee et al‚ 2012:1036). SNS can be defined as “a new method of communicating‚ employing computers as a collaborative tool to accelerate group information and escalate group scope and influence” (Kane et al‚ 2009‚ cited by Lin and Lu‚ 2011:1152). This
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of blogs‚ podcasts and social networking sites such as facebook‚ twitter‚ myspace and many more. These sites were made for communicating purpose but also for online sharing. Social networking sites have become part of daily habits. Visit‚ post‚ share‚ view‚ like‚ comment‚ that’s the usual things that are done in these sites every day. Many questions have been raised because of the impact of these sites to teenager‚ the youngest and number one user of social networking sites. The question between
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Is social networking really social? By Larry Rosen‚ Ph.D. February 1‚ 2011 4tweetsretweet Let’s face it. Everyone is on Facebook. Well‚ not everyone‚ but 550 million or one in 12 people worldwide have a Facebook account. As of late 2010‚ 61 percent of all online adults are Facebooking‚ a whopping increase from 35 percent just two years ago. This includes nearly all young adults (86 percent)‚ the majority of teens (71 percent) and even one in four 8- to 12-year-olds. According to the latest
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2011 The Disadvantages of Social Network Sites It is true that social network sites are growing at an alarming rate and that there are many advantages and disadvantages in using social network sites. If one understands these advantages and attempts to avoid the disadvantages‚ then one can use these sites to improve their knowledge‚ increase personal relationships with Family and friends‚ and create a functioning secure social network on-line. Because social network sites play such an important and
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Privacy on Social Networks Tasdiq A. 11/4/2010 The privacy issues surrounding social networking sites are nothing new by any stretch of the imagination‚ but it seems that many people have mismatched expectations when it comes to privacy and social networks. Social Network Sites (SNS) are websites that allow users to upload information to a public profile‚ create a list of online friends‚ and browse the profiles of other users of the SNS. The websites have membership rules and community standards
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