...social networks at this 21th century is Facebook. The Facebook was first intervening in 2006 by the founder, Mark Zukerberg, altogether with his fellow college roommates and student Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Christ Huges. At first, Facebook is used for educational reason and the users are commonly a college student. As a year passed, the Facebook features become more advance and becoming well known to the public. End of the year 2007, the number of the registered users had been reached to 30 million, becoming the one of the largest social-networking site for the educational focus (Sarah P, 2007). Facebook describe itself as a social utility intended to help people communicate more efficiently with friends, family, but the same might be said of email, text messaging or even the telephone (Anne McCalard, 2008). Research done by Back M. D et al., (2010), says that the Facebook profiles are actually reflects someone actual personality and not simply a self idealization. The research then supported by the investigation on personality traits over the Five-Factor Model of personality relates to Facebook use (John, Naumann, & Soto, 2008). People were saying that Facebook give a lot advantage to the user, because they will know more people through this kind of systems, express their thought and feeling freely, and much more. But beside that, Facebook also have several disadvantages. According to Dr. Brent Coker, the Facebook has unique characteristic that made it more...
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...Honors Thesis Program in the College of Management College of Management 12-1-2011 Facebook Addiction: Factors Influencing an Individual's Addiction Erica Sherman University of Massachusetts Boston Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/management_hontheses Part of the Marketing Commons Recommended Citation Sherman, Erica, "Facebook Addiction: Factors Influencing an Individual's Addiction" (2011). Honors Thesis Program in the College of Management. Paper 5. This Open Access Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Management at ScholarWorks at UMass Boston. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Thesis Program in the College of Management by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at UMass Boston. For more information, please contact library.uasc@umb.edu. Facebook Addiction Factors Influencing an Individual’s Addiction Erica Sherman Erica Sherman MGT 478- Honors Thesis Advisor: Werner Kunz Director: Professor Jeffrey Keisler December 2011 ABSTRACT Prior research has proved that an individual could be addicted to the Internet in general, but no research has been done specifically to social networking sites such as Facebook. This study investigates how factors such as personality, gender, procrastination, boredom and ones values may affect the amount of time they spend on Facebook, further concluding that they are either overly obsessive or not about the usage thereof...
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...| | |Personality Traits and Facebook Use | | | | | |Author James | | | |Professor Hiroshi Ajas | |PS315 | |Theories of Personality | | | |September 29, 2015 ...
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...categories of participants: owners and raters. 156 of the participants were Facebook page owners, 100 of them were female. And there were 128 rater participants, 86 of which were female. Rater participants were randomly assigned to rate five different Facebook pages; however, if they knew the person, they were told to not view the profile and they were then reassigned a different page. This study used a correlational...
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...------------------------------------------------- “Hey Mom, What’s on Your Facebook? Comparing Facebook Disclosure and Privacy in Adolescents and Adults “ Abstract: People of all ages are increasingly exposed to online environments that encourage them to share and connect with others. However, there is a perception that adolescents are particularly susceptible to these cues and share more online than do other age groups. With a group of 288 adolescents and 285 adults, we explored differences and similarities in use of Facebook for information sharing and use of the controls to protect their privacy. Adolescents reported disclosing more information on Facebook and using the privacy settings less than adults. Despite these differences, the results indicated that adolescents and adults were more similar than different in the factors that predicted information disclosure and control. Adolescents spent more time on Facebook, which partially mediated the relationship between group (adolescents vs. adults) and disclosure. Self-esteem partially mediated the relationship between group and information control, with adults having higher self-esteem than adolescents. Readings: Keywords privacy, self-disclosure, social media, online communication The news is filled with stories about the dangers of sharing personal information online, the difficulties in protecting personal privacy, and the privacy challenges of websites such as Google and Facebook. Despite wide proclamations that ‘‘pri-...
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...Case Study: Facebook: It’s Not Just for Kids Facebook has become a social networking phenomenon. A place for people all over the world to connect, play games, share photos, and now days shop. While other social networking sites are meeting the status quo Facebook is setting itself apart by keeping the site new and exciting. Facebook is currently the fourth most trafficked site on the web. (Facebook: It's Not Just for Kids) However, even as Facebook is gearing up to expand they still have challenges to overcome if they want to stay on top of the social networking empire. People from all walks of life have discovered the joys of Facebook. However, a recent study by Spruce Advisors found that a large majority of Facebook users are extroverts and narcissistic. Facebook gives these personality types an additional platform to socialize and to promote themselves with the ability to upload an unlimited amount of pictures (there is nothing worse than a friend who uploads pictures of themselves three times a day!) and the ability to update their status every minute of the day. Many of these faithful Facebook fans have a large number of virtual friends and they tend to stay connected. On the other hand, Facebook gives the introverts a large assortment of games and other apps to utilize while still keeping them in contract with their small network of friends and family. The ability Facebook has to appeal to the extroverts and introverts in and of itself gives Facebook the potential...
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...networks comprise one platform which involves excessive emailing and texting. Facebook addiction is considered to be a disorder driven by strong urge. There is a compulsion factor to it because not browsing on Facebook creates anxiety among addicts. It is considered to be an urge because browsing through Facebook can be a pleasurable experience. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites and has over 600 million users globally. There are seven symptoms to suggest Facebook addiction. These are spending excessive time browsing through Facebook, sharing one’s secrets on the website, being extremely concerned about updating and creating a favourable image on Facebook, checking the website for updates every now and then, continuously adding new friends, reporting on Facebook and not engaging in an offline social life. A recent academic study further reveals that excessive addiction to social networking sites can lead to signs of withdrawal. Individuals isolate themselves from family and friends. Further signs of Facebook addiction have been linked with short and poor sleep patterns. Scholarly research on Facebook addiction has been associated adversely with conscientiousness and favorably with extra-version. Researchers have also tried to analyze certain individual personality traits to the addiction. This is based on the five-factor personality theory that evaluates individual personality on the basis of being intellectually and creatively focused,...
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...asking if social medical use is negativly contributing to the growth of narcasissm. Narcassism is defined by psycologists as a personality disorder in which people have an inflated sense of self-importance was well as an extreme preoccupation with themselves. This is a very relevent topic in psychology because narcassism is considered a personality disorder. If social media is contributing to the prevelence of this personality disorder then is is important for psychologists to recognize this. Although...
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...Facebook Discussion Questions 1. How does Facebook’s privacy management of users’ personal information affect the behavior of Facebook patrons? = Well, Facebook, generates most of its revenue from targeted advertisements based on user’s demography and interest, so the more data users share publicly the more money it can mint from ads (Nelson & Quick, 2013). Let’s say for example I don’t publish my likes and dislikes on Facebook. Then they will have to find a way to push me into doing that. The moment I go in and enter that information I will be immediately targeted as a consumer with certain needs and Facebook will be the platform that will bring them to me. 2. Being a college student you are likely a Facebook user. What is your opinion regarding how Facebook deals with privacy issues? What have you done (or decided not to do) with regard to protecting your privacy on Facebook (or other social networking sites)? =As a college student I do have a Facebook. In my opinion, if Facebook is seeking to become dominant on the internet they should follow through on providing privacy for its users and personal choice. I don’t agree that as a user, you really don’t have control of the privacy in your page. Even though I have a page, I don’t like to post all my information there or any other social networking site. I have never believed that you are totally protected. I always recommended my family and close friends not to put personal data (phone number, address, private...
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...The report written by, Christopher J. Carpenter, makes an attempt to correlate social media sites to narcissistic behavior. The research of the report goes in depth examining one possible predictor of narcissistic behavioral use of social media sites. The research conducted was in depth and it also examined narcissistic personality traits, the history of the narcissistic personality inventory (NPI) and narcissism on Facebook. The NPI includes aspects such as ‘‘a grandiose sense of self-importance or uniqueness,’’ ‘‘an inability to tolerate criticism,’’ and ‘‘entitlement or the expectation of special favors without assuming reciprocal responsibilities.’’ METHOD: According to the report written by Carpenter “there were 294 participants in the survey whose ages ranged from 18 to 65 years ( M = 23.26, SD = 7.30)” of the 294 participants “74.1% were college students and 68% were female”. The participants were not compensated for the participation and according to the research they were recruited by “the members of an undergraduate research methods course in a medium sized Midwestern, American university”. The research also indicates all the participants were Facebook users. The instrument used in the research was a scale ranging from ‘‘strongly disagree’’ to ‘‘strongly agree’’ to measure a particular item listed. The first set of items concerned “the frequency with which the participants engaged in particular...
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...the Relationship of Facebook Usage and Loneliness Research Proposal (it was NOT conducted) Abstract The popularity of Facebook among internet users has increased, yet at the same time people start noticing the negative life influence that Facebook brings to its users. The present study furthers our understanding in how the use of Facebook affects one’s feeling of loneliness among fresh graduates who are experiencing life changing events. We look at the number of Facebook friends users have, the amount of time they spend on Facebook, the number of status posted, the number of post liked by others, and the number of pieces of personal information they share. We expect to see a strong correlation between general Facebook use and users’ sense of loneliness. However, the number of like received from others might not have a direct relationship with users’ loneliness. Result of our study could be applied to the educational field, where both teachers and students could benefit. Introduction As social media is getting more popular, Facebook is one of the few social networking sites that have generated great attention. It provides people a platform for communication and a wide range of functions, such as posting status reflecting their daily lives, liking other’s status or photo by clicking the thumb, and to share users’ personal data with others. According to the Statistics Portal (2014), Facebook is the world's leading social networking websites with 1,280 million...
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...UNIVERSITY TITLE: CASE STUDY OF FACEBOOK CHRISTINE ONYANGO Facebook is a social networking site that was created by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin in 2004 driven by the urge to connect the world and create a mirror of the real world community rather than just an online community. By that time, there were a few such sites already in existence; MySpace and Friendster. These sites would at times face technical instability and had a lot of distracting advertisements. What made the big difference for Facebook is that the founders focus on the market and customize their site depending on what they deem fit for it. (Adam Hartung, 2011) in Forbes’ blog, stated that Zack’s willingness to let the business to go wherever the market wanted it, is one of the factors that led to the rise of Facebook. Some of the things for instance include; adding the capability to upload photos and identify the people on those photos as well as “tag” your friends on pictures and videos, game applications that basically allowed people to play games and the news feed feature was a great innovation that allows people to view “news” as posted by their Facebook friends. At the start, the founders came up with a fund of $1,000 to be able to launch the site. Later on in the same year, Peter Thiel made an angel investment of $ 500,000 for 10.2% of the company. In 2005, Accel Investment made a $12.7 million venture capital investment and then joined the board. In 2006 Facebook received $27.5 million from Greylock...
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...How to Protect Your Image Using Social Media Jordan Holzmacher Hunter Jayne Samuel Schneider Jason Sohan Roberto Vargas Students of the University of Central Florida Introduced in the early 1970’s, a new method of communicating and interacting amongst the general public was developed. Through the technological advances of the internet, social media sites such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn soon became sanctuaries for everyday users. Since their establishment, concerns regarding undesirable society norms have become progressively transparent. For instance, questions involving a person’s ethical or moral standards start cultivating once numerous undesirable traits are found online about that person. Vital concerns regarding the transparency of personal information existing online have given rise to behavioral studies. These studies such as the one done by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project suggested, roughly fifty percent of internet users are worried about information posted online. Additionally the study mentions around eighty-six percent of the people surveyed had partaken in one or more methods for cloaking their online activity (Flaherty, 2013). Without hesitation, businesses adapted to these missteps and started screening their existing and potential job applicant’s online presence. Vital conflicting interests linking businesses and capable job applicants, users of social media sites must now start taking...
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...Increasing the number of fans in the official Facebook page of CLEAR Facebook fan page is an easy way to interact with the people. Most of the bloggers and entrepreneur are now using Facebook fans page to promote their products and service. And also there is no doubt to say that capturing important Facebook likes is vital to our social media marketing campaigns. . A fan page with more likes will also help to have good brand value. There are some different and most effective strategy which is helping to increase likes on page. * To get more “Likes” by advertising and publishing own brands on Facebook. This is the quickest way to grow Facebook fan base. * Click on “Like Our Page” and if anyone likes it then get free some exclusive video and high resolution photos. In that way target audience will come back, make share and drive more likes from their friends. Besides this give a free download away to those that like on page. It may offer a video that can only be viewed after liking the page. Another option is to offer a free eBook to those that like on the page. Just make sure these items can only be downloaded one time by those that like the page. * Offer some “Special” discounts to Facebook fans. And the majority of Facebook users “like” a page to obtain a discount. * Take time to network with other people who are managing Facebook pages related and discuss ways of promoting each other. * As link to personal profile so that when people come across...
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...Visual, Kinesthetic, and Auditory learning styles and with NF, SF, and ST personality types from the Myers-Briggs model. Learning Styles Kinesthetic learners are those who learn through experiencing/doing things that help them learn better. We do better when we include hands-on communication and collaboration activities, such as building models, drawing diagrams, writing on a flipchart or white-board, working with visual aids, and taking notes. Auditory get better grades learners learn best through hearing, have strong language skills, a well-developed vocabulary, and follow spoken directions well. Oral presentations are crucial for understanding a subject and written text is hard to follow, but auditory learners can remember lectures and speeches. Personality Types Three of the four personality types from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) model include NF, SF, and ST along with effective methods for communicating and collaborating effectively within a team. Intuitive Feeling (NF) ' To communicate effectively with NF personality types, team members should focus on the big picture and not spend too much time on specific details, especially if the context is not clear. Team members should be willing to discuss values, details, relationships, ideas, and impacts on people. NFs understand that their ideas and contributions are valued. Sensing Feeling (SF) ' Communicating with SF personality types takes the team members recognizing the SF’s need for detailed, concrete...
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