...2011 The Facebook Epidemic What happened to face-to-face visits, dates, and just sitting down and talking with someone to sincerely get to know them? Why has the world settled for a simple Facebook message, or email? Mark Zuckerburg created a social network that connected the world; a social network so large that if its users were a country, it would be the third largest in the world. Facebook’s mission statement is "to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected” (Facebook). Facebook is useful for certain types of communication and connectivity, but it has also contributed to an underlying epidemic that may, if used excessively, redefine interpersonal relationships forever. These relationships will be redefined, ironically, by further disconnecting people even though Facebook facilitates easy communication and more access to connections. Facebook has revolutionized what it means to communicate with someone and what it means to be connected, and whether or not these changes have been beneficial or detrimental to relationships has been a hot topic among many scholars. Some scholars say that Facebook is beneficial for relationships. They claim that Facebook has made it easier to stay in contact with others, easier to express oneself to people online, that it enlarges their social circle, and they say that it makes it easier to connect and communicate with people that have meaning in their life. This is a valid argument because Facebook has opened...
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...7/17/2014 Essay #1 3rd draft Could the millions of Facebook users be lonely? Stephen Marche in his article “Is Facebook making us Lonely?”(The Atlantic Monthly) discusses whether Facebook makes people lonely or not. The author thinks that Facebook makes people lonely and isolated from their families or even from society. Also being lonely decreases the opportunity of exercising and increases the opportunity of illness. I believe that Facebook does not make people lonely because lonely people are lonely with it or without it, Facebook makes people socialize more and have closer relationships with each other. First of all, lonely people are often lonely whether they have Facebook or not. Marche says, “Burke’s research does not support the assertion that Facebook create loneliness. The people who experience loneliness on Facebook are lonely away from Facebook”. (2012) These people isolate themselves from interacting with their families, friends or society. For example, my neighbor Yafy uses Facebook always, but he does not go out with friends. Also he does not sit with his family. In my opinion he has already isolated himself from family and friends. Sometime he tries to talk to people via Facebook, so Facebook never lead to loneliness. Second, Facebook users can socialize more with each other. When Facebook users see that their friend is happy or sad in a Facebook status, they may be led to interact with that friend face to face. Marche says, “The more connected we Baker Alfarajat...
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...Negative and Positive Effects of Facebook Use Facebook has taken the world by storm with more than 500 million users. The use of Facebook has many implications on self-esteem and personal relationships both positive and negative. 93% of college students have a Facebook account and spend on average 47 minutes a day on Facebook. My research on this topic is to inform the general user of the risks and rewards of Facebook. I believe this research is important as a Facebook user myself to know what potential risks I am taking and what potential rewards I can expect. The research question was what is Facebook and what are the positive and negative ramifications on self-esteem and social relationships as a result of using Facebook. My research is based on the literature review of scholarly articles. This research paper will show that Facebook use has many positive and negative effects on self-esteem and personal relationships. Review of the Literature Definition of Facebook Facebook as defined by Tokunaga (2011) is a social networking site (SNS) created in 2004. Facebook since its origination has grown have the largest number of users with more than 500 million active users. 30% of Facebook users are within the age 18-25 demographic. Social networking sites are web-based services that allow people to create a public or semi-public profile within a limited system, formulate a list of other user with whom they share a connection and view and navigate their list...
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...three social media sites are Facebook, Twitter, and Google. This paper will discuss Facebook in more detail. It will show its purpose, content as well as the cultural significance. In 2004, Facebook was founded by Mark Zukerberg with the mission to “give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected” (Facebook). Facebook started out to connect college students for networking purposes. Today, with over one billion active users, businesses are taking advantage of it as well. Companies are on Facebook to advertise their products, offer discounts, and to build a reputation of their brand (Bosari, 2012). Individual's Experience on Facebook Since I do not have a Facebook account, I can't state my experience with it but I can explain the reasoning why I am personally against Facebook. The main reason is for professional reasons, the reputation in my job. I have watched and observe people talk about things they saw posted on somebody's Facebook account. It is in human nature to draw conclusions and make assumptions. As I can control what I am posting, I have no control over what other people are posting. In my opinion, my friends and family are aware of what I am doing and we communicate with other means besides social media, I don't see the need to post my every move on Facebook for all kinds of people to see. Privacy is definitely another big concern as personal information is shared with applications (Reed, N. 2015). I use Facebook for a multitude of reasons...
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...Online Social Networking Paper Name SOC/100 Date Instructor Name Online Social Networking Paper Social websites have become a large part of everyday life for many, and none looms larger than Facebook. A social network with 1.11 billion monthly users, and 655 million daily active users ("Iamwire", 2013), Facebook, at its very basic core offers the ability to communicate with others from all over the world. What is communicated, and to whom is entirely up to the user. Some choose to update friends and family on happenings in their lives, while others take a more passive approach and use the site to simply stay in touch with loved ones. Videos, pictures, and music can be shared on Facebook, and as a result has been a key promotional tool for companies looking to sell their products. Official pages have been created for films, artists, food chains, and various other services as a way to spread word of new promotions, as well as communicate directly to consumers. Some of the team’s experiences were initially consumed by Facebook. The ability to find old friends, update others with our own happenings, and catch up with former classmates and co-workers was hard to resist. However, that rush faded and their participation went from active to passive rather quickly. One observation of the website contends with an image of astonishing happiness than to really form deep relationships. A revelation that sees little middle ground between those who share too much, and others who do not...
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...Facebook is leading an unhealthy life Facebook, which now can be used by everybody in any generation, is one of the most popular website. According to the Daily Mail, using Facebook “could raise your risk of cancer”. The newspaper reported that social networking sites “could raise your risk of serious health problems by reducing levels of face-to-face contact.” This is based on an article expressing the opinion of psychologist Dr. Aric Sigman, who is concerned that a reduction in personal contact could increase the risks of heart disease, stroke and dementia. Research at the UCLA School of Medical is reported to have found that social isolation can affect the level to which genes are active in white blood cells. People reporting high levels of social isolation by 78 genes that were more active and 131 genes that were less active are reported to include those involved in the body’s response to stress and illness, while those that were more active are reported to include those involved in promoting inflammation during stress and illness. However, using Facebook not only causes physical problems, but also somehow ruins the relationship among friends, family, and efficiency in studying and working since people have been so addicted to Facebook, which is absolutely an unhealthy way of life, It has become more obvious that Facebook is leading an abnormal relationship among friends. Take my own experience for example. One day, my best friend came to my...
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... October 04, 2010 Aryn Karpinski, a researcher from Ohio State University says that students who use Facebook are underachieving in exams. Instead of spending time doing the assignments and work, students would rather to sit, face on the screen and checking updates on Facebook. Study shows students who spend more time on Facebook spend less time in studying. User students spend time for five hours studying while students who are non-users studied eleven to fifteen hours per week which has significant that Facebook users have an averaged of low grades rather than those non-users. Karpinski added that there may be other factors that can affects the study habit of students such as personality traits that link Facebook use and lower grades and some students would still find other ways to avoid studying that still get lower grades. Sharon Gaudin from ComputerWorld Company says that college students have always had study distraction from video games to parties and other entertainments. But Facebook really takes distractions in the study. Bored students can spend hours updating accounts, check new updates, looking at pictures and playing games or any applications on the site. And because of modernization, mobile phones and mini laptop with wifi source which presence of Facebook can go anywhere. As Paul Kirshner author of the daily mail quoted that most students who have Facebook account affects not only the study habits but also the task at home. Students tend to be a multitasking...
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...night, Mark Zuckerberg wrote the following blog entries:[9][10][11] I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even 3 pm and it's a Tuesday afternoon? What? The Kirkland dormitory facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendiedous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of some farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive. —2:49 pm Facemash, the Facebook’s predecessor, opened on October 28, 2003.[8] Initially, the website was invented by a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, and three of his classmates – Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. Zuckerberg wrote the software for the Facemash website when he was in his second year of college. The website was set up as a type of “hot or not” game for Harvard students. The website allowed visitors to compare two student pictures side-by-side and let them choose who was “hot” and who was “not”..... That night, Mark Zuckerberg wrote the following blog entries:[9][10][11] I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even 3 pm and it's a Tuesday afternoon? What? The Kirkland dormitory facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendiedous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of some farm animals and have...
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...am about to analysis is called “Facebook: The New Face of E-Commerce?” Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. A keen computer programmer, Mr. Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students, including Course match, which allowed users to view people taking their degree, and Face mash, where you could rate people's attractiveness. In February 2004 Mr. Zuckerberg launched "The facebook", as it was originally known; the name taken from the sheets of paper distributed to freshmen, profiling students and staff. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate population had a profile. One of the main trends in 2012 social networks will be the rise of F-commerce or e-commerce through Facebook. Thus, this network becomes the only way, apart from the traditional online store on a web page, for a company to sell their products directly online without intermediates. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Facebook as the new face of e-Commerce. In the last seven years, facebook has shown a tremendous ecommerce gateway trends. It is worth $5,257 million in the year 2009 having a customer base of 800 million, and 3000 employees across the globe. One of the most ambitious projects of the Facebook social network in last year was the birth and evolution of the F-Commerce, i.e. e-commerce on Facebook. I hope you enjoyed the brief...
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...Facebook: Online Social Networking SOC 100 December 6, 2012 Donnetta Hawkins Facebook: Online Social Networking Facebook is an online social networking site founded in 2004 (Facebook.com, n.d.). The purpose of this website is to connect family and friends and to share content such as pictures, status updates, and event invites between the user’s contacts. The site also has numerous games that many users participate in for entertainment. The website states the mission of Facebook is to “give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected,” (Facebook.com, n.d.). Every day millions of people log on to connect with friends and family, sharing photos, links, and videos. As of October 2012, more than a billion users access the site monthly (Facebook.com, n.d.). Of these users, about 81% live outside the United States and Canada (Facebook.com, n.d.). Facebook contains specialized pages that users can choose to subscribe to and “like” to show their support for varying topics. The population of participants on Facebook include a wide range of people regarding age, ethnicity, and gender. Team member J has been a member of the social networking site titled Facebook since August 2008. During this time, she has connected with many classmates from high school as well as family members who she does not get to see. This team member has played several of the games offered by the site, though currently only plays one or two of games on a regular basis...
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...FaceBook’s DeepFace Project Overview: DeepFace is a project being developed and put in use by FaceBook, DeepFace can accurately identify the true identity of an image and can spot users in the 400 Million photos uploaded to Facebook every day. “DeepFace uses a fresh approach to artificial intelligence known as deep learning.” Deep learning is noted as networks of neurons learn to recognize patterns that are in large amounts of data. Deep learning is not a new breakthrough concept, it has been floating around for decades, but our technology is finally able to handle the extensive amounts of equations going on to create the virtual neurons necessary to recognize images and or speech. Watch Video at this link: What is DeepFace? 'Human-Level' Face Matching, Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13FZHiXJSsE Application: Although the concept of facial recognition is not a breakthrough, the uses for it are. Facebook states that the DeepFace technology will be used to improve user privacy to dispel privacy concerns it has had in the past. DeepFace will be able to identify the user in a photo and notify them before allowing them to be tagged in it without their permission. This is especially useful as it will allow the user to blur out their face in images that may be embarrassing or even incriminating. This will notify uses whether the person uploading the photo is a friend or a stranger but only allows users to see the identities of the people they are already friends...
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...What is the cultural significance of online social networks? Facebook has changed the way our society interacts with each other. Facebook has made it possible to stay in contact with those that have come across our lives. There has been a significant change in our culture as a result of social networking sites such as Facebook. Some may say that social media has made our culture less social when it comes to face to face human interaction. Facebook has given its users the ability to stay connected to those around them without actually having a conversation with that person. Social networking sites have created a culture that is continuously “plugged in” to the world around them. What is the social effect of online social networks? Social media networks have an overall control on this generation, because people want to stay in the know. Social media has influence the conduct of society today (Schaefer, 2011). As new technology has emerged this has altered this generations interactions, listening, and viewing (Schaefer, 2011). The new technology has made it easier to connect to social media, by downloading an app to one’s electronic device. Individual spend more time on the social media What potential effect do online social networking sites have on face-to-face interaction? Social networking sites have a lot to offer; however, they can be very misleading. The good effect of social networking sites is that they do give the power to find family and friend that have not been...
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...status are some of the identifying pieces of information that users display to fill out their Profile. The Profile not only depicts the user, but also shapes the representation of other individuals on Facebook. Scholars have recently begun to study the Facebook phenomenon using surveys and statistical analyses, but none have used ethnography as a means for analysis. This paper draws upon ethnographic data to provide a phenomenological explanation to the Facebook experience. It argues that the digital world is a large part of the experience of young Americans and that the Internet is more social than commonly thought.[2] Moreover, this paper problematizes the static nature of the Profile, arguing that the Profile converses directly with others’ Profiles in a constantly changing digital context that is simultaneously recreated and interpreted. Introduction Embodied conversation between individuals begins when they weave performance and interpretation into an intricate dance that allows individuals to consider voice and body cues. Meaning is interpreted from the context of the conversation and nuances of body and gesture.[3] However, embodied conversation differs from computer-mediated communication, where individuals must write themselves into being.[4] With the Facebook Profile, multiple forms of media attempt to bridge the physical and the digital worlds and recapture some of the interpersonal cues that have been filtered out by the medium.[5] Ultimately, the digital...
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...While looking at Facebook, I have noticed that the majority of people have many more “Facebook friends” than the people they talk to in real life. Facebook has changed many lives because it has allowed people to connect with others that they may never have talked to in real life, or may never have been able to find otherwise. I believe Facebook has positively impacted the lives of high school and college students because it has increased their communication skills with others and possibly even built their friendship circle. Sometimes, we as humans have a natural fear of being judged by people we do not know. This means that we don’t always take opportunities to talk to new people face-to-face like we would like to because of this social anxiety. I believe Facebook has been a wonderful way to connect people to others that they may have never spoken to in person because they were afraid of being judged. When you’re behind a computer you are less likely to feel threatened by starting a conversation with someone new, because if it goes bad or gets awkward you can always hit the “x” at the top of the screen and pretend the conversation never started. Many people have hundreds of Facebook friends when in real life they may only talk to a fourth of those people face-to-face. They may not be close with the other three-fourths, but it’s still a step in the right direction when it comes to talking with new people. Facebook gives students the opportunity to find people you may not know...
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...Facebook is the most popular social networking of all time. The popularity of Facebook has increased drastically. Within 6 years Facebook has reached 1+ billion users milestone. Nowadays Facebook has become very important part of our life. It is helping us in many ways and also harming us in other ways. In this Article I will give you a very long list of advantages and disadvantages of Facebook. Facebook shirts T SHIRT 2 XL facebook face book Your Face 3 Million Dislike 2XL 2X EXTRA LARGE Current Bid: $8.00 Advantages of Using Facebook # Facebook is free and it's one of the best medium for communication. # With the help of Facebook you can connect to different people from anywhere in the world because almost every people around the world use Facebook . This gives us the opportunity to know more about their custom and tradition,culture, religion etc. # Facebook is best for finding Old friends. When a friend goes away to any other place, we often don't get the chance to communicate with him or her. But now Facebook gives us the opportunity to communicate with our Old friend very easily without any cost. # We can share our feelings an what's happening around in our daily life through Facebook. We can also get feedback from our friends about their reaction toward your feelings. It is the best medium to share your feelings and thoughts with others. # Facebook has good privacy setting which gives you the option to customize according to your wish. # Facebook Fan pages...
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