Social networking sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ MySpace have become hugely popular over the last decade. In fact the popularity has quadrupled from 2005 to 2009. Social networking sites have generally expanded the number and diversity of people a person can interact with. Interpersonal relationships are no longer restricted to people in the neighborhood‚ church‚ mosque‚ school or workplace. Instead the pool of people someone has the opportunity to meet is almost endless. With any emerging technology
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English1301 11 April 2014 Social Media We live in the time where communication is possible without having to exert so much effort. We live in the time where SOCIAL NETWORKING is the main medium of communication. Nowadays‚ we only need to have computers including cell phones and smart phones and proper internet connection to be able to communicate with someone from another country. Also‚ several people who have their own business take advantage of social networking; they use this to reach out
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become possible through the invention of different devices‚ services‚ and processes. The most popular is what we call today as Social Networking Sites. Social Networking Sites are a web-based service that focuses on building and reflecting of social relations among people. It’s service essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile)‚ his/her social links‚ and a variety of additional services.(Marjo)It allows users to share ideas‚ activities‚ events and interests with in
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IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (A STUDY OF STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA) By ANJUGU JESSICA NDAKU MC/2009/386 DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CARITAS UNIVERSITY AMORJI – NIKE ENUGU AUGUST‚ 2013 TITLE PAGE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (A STUDY OF STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA) By ANJUGU JESSICA NDAKU MC/2009/386 A RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION
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Social networking sites Online social networking site is a very common tool for communicating and socializing with each other. Nowadays‚ most of the adolescent like to use Facebook. There is a rapid growth of the number of user of social networking sites. According the recent research‚ Kreutz (2009) stated that “starting from 1997 to 2010 there are some 1.5 billion users of social networking websites” (p.222). This shows that how popular the social networking site is. Although many parents think
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Chapter I The Problem and Its Background Introduction Social Networking Sites (SNS) is one of the most‚ trendiest topics talked about by the students in College. When people think of social networking sites‚ the first things that often come to mind are Facebook and Twitter but there are more like Friendster‚ MySpace‚ and Plurk. Social Networking Sites help us to communicate with our friends‚ classmates‚ and relatives but they also allow us to communicate with other people who share common interests
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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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The Benefits of Social Networking No one can imagine a world without Internet. No one can imagine a modern society without social networking. Even though there are many parents think spending time online is wasting time. I still take the side of that the advantages of social networking are real. It has more potential benefits compared with dangers. A research study titled by the Digital Youth Project shows that young people can acquire four types of skills through social networking sites. It created
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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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A social networking service is an online service‚ platform‚ or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people‚ who‚ for example‚ share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile)‚ his/her social links‚ and a variety of additional services. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas‚ activities‚ events‚ and interests within their individual networks. The main social networking
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