Almaty region opened a criminal case against a 17year old teenager‚ who was surfing another’s Internet for a few months and expended 460 000 tenge. As it turned out‚ the child connected to the internet of Forestry Raiymbek district area which is 500 kilometers from Taldykorgan city. The police contacted with managers of Forest Company‚ whom Kazakhtelecom presented a bill for an internet for 460 000 tenge. They started to figure out during the investigation that the robber was a Taldykorgan schoolboy
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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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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‚ dislikes‚ relationships
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Introversion- Extroversion) on Social Media Use Erin Ryan Harbaugh* Strategic Communications & Psychology : Double Major Elon University Abstract This research paper details a study of social network users personality style and their consequent social media use on the popular social networking site (SNS)‚ Facebook. The self-reported level of extroversion amongst other personality traits served as the central delineation of personality style. The amount of social media usage was determined based
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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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First of all I want to clarify one thing :if it wasn’t already known that social networking sites are like facebook‚myspace‚twitter‚etc... not the dating sites like match.com‚ chemistry.com As we have much less time‚I will present my opinion in brief. Social networking is actually beneficial‚ as man is‚ by nature‚ a social creature that is people need people.As technology advances ‚so does mankind’s means of communicating and socializing for example we’ve developed things like telegram to e-mail
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Introduction Background of the Study A social networking service is an online service on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among students. Through social networking people can use network of online friends and group memberships to keep in touch with current friends‚ reconnect with old friends or create new friendships through similar interest or groups. Besides‚ establishing social relationships‚ social networking member can share interests and their ideas with
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find out that there are also people who notice about the way social networking sites dominate students’ life. This people are part of a college of art and science group‚ they made an online survey to 960 students of different racial and economic backgrounds and academic abilities that are currently in their high school senior year and are going to go to college on the fall of 2009. But unlike the researchers aim to find out the effects of social networking sites‚ the group aims to find out how these
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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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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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