...1. Summary of “Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook”: The text is written by Elizabeth Cohen. The text is about how people use more time on Facebook than on social activities. Newton has a daughter on 12 years old. Newton cannot help her daughter with the homework, because she spends too much time on Facebook. Another example is Paula Pile, who is a therapist. Paula has three clients with different Facebook issues. That conclude that Facebook leads people from the real world into the network world, because people enjoy more time on Facebook than in real life. Newton checks her Facebook-site many times in a day, for social updates about her friends, she checks Facebook everywhere at work and home. Facebook can give people a wrong understanding of what identity means. Joanna Lipari is psychologist and expert in social network, sees Facebook a kind like the movie “The Truman Show”. Joanna thinks Facebook is like a world without boundaries. 2. An outline of the positive and negative sides of social networking presented in the three texts: In the first text “What is social networking?”, we hear about how social networks has an effect to make it easier to get new online friends over social networks, examples as Facebook, Skype and Twitter. Now a day, we can have difference friends among the world from Denmark to USA and easy learn each other’s traditions, religion, culture and language. Negatives sites of social networks are, that it is easy for hackers and bad people to...
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...Let Facebook Become A Real Friend Le Hong Anh Huynh Thi Kim Hanh Nguyen Dac Huy Ho Minh Phuc Nguyen Thi Kim Sa Phan Thi Kim Thoa Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy Business Academic Skills November 7th 2012 Douglas Foster Let Facebook Become A Real Friend “Social network”-a familiar clause -which is used to regard the virtual community on the Internet, emerged as a common type of communication, entertainment for almost young generations and become the lives of many individuals. Providing many kinds of social group together in one place and making them interact is really a great thing. One of those popular social networks is Facebook, which is considered as the world’s biggest social site. The founder of Facebook-Mark Zuckerberg-launched his product on the 4th of February 2004 and witnessed a remarkable rise in the number of registered member and page views each day. Existing research shows that young people are motivated to join this site to make friends, to keep in touch with the old ones who they have not seen for many years or live in another region of the Earth, to strengthen ties with new acquaintances (Acquisti, and Gross, as cited in Valenzuela, Park, and Kee, 2006, p. 3). Besides, Facebook also allow them to exchange news and discuss issues, both public and private. However, this social network site is not entirely free from drawbacks. If one is not a Facebook user, he/she can easily realize the problems it can cause. In this paper, the authors examine some benefits...
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...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 how to reach...
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...The Negative effects of facebook So, there you are, on a Saturday morning with your favorite cup of coffee caressing your senses and relaxing your brain, sitting at your desk and browsing on Facebook. You have 34 new notifications since last night that you logged out, 5 group invitations, 1 suggested page, 2 cause invitations and 3 friend requests, one of which is of an unknown person. You are not new in Facebook. You've been using it for almost two years now. And what you do this Saturday morning is what you've been doing nearly all Saturday mornings since Facebook joined your life. When the weather is nice, you ignore half of the invitations for new apps and you quickly accept the group and the cause invitations so that you go out and enjoy life. Only later, when the weather is bad and you have to stay indoors, you start deleting apps, causes, groups and people. And this goes on and on, relentlessly. Whether you have realized it or not, Facebook is a real part of your life, is a real partner whom you have to see for good morning and kiss for good night. What changes over time is your degree of addiction; as it happens with all love-hate relationships.You don’t think you are a Facebook addict. Social networking is just a part of your generation that feels more comfortable with text messaging, chatting and online communication. But, hey! Your generation counts nearly forty years already, while Facebook is around the last five. Supposedly, social networking is addressed to the...
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...Write a summary of five clues that you are addicted to Facebook. Cynthia Newton’s daughter asks her for help with her homework but Cynthia is too busy on Facebook, so she can not help her. The daughter goes up to her room and writes her an e-mail, but Cynthia is addicted to Facebook, so she does not see the e-mail. Her daughter gets pissed off at her, and Cynthia thinks it is kind of pathetic, and she is not proud of it, but she can not help it, she just gets so sucked into it. Cynthia is embarrassed by her Facebook use and she spends about 20 hours a week on the social networking site. She says that she can go a whole day without Facebook, but she has never made it through an entire weekend. And she has thought about going on a cold turkey but that will make her so uncomfortable, and she knows that she can not do it. Joanna Lipari is a clinical psychologist at the University of California. She says that social networking is like the movie “The Truman Show” with Jim Carrey a movie about a fabricated world where nothing goes wrong. And it is the same with Facebook. People only use Facebook to present the crème de la crème of their lives on Facebook. When you are addicted to Facebook you stay up late on Facebook even though you are tired, if you use more than an hour on facebook, if you become obsessed with old loves, if you ignore work in favour of Facebook and if the thought of getting off Facebook leaves you in a cold sweat. 2. Give an outline...
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...life. Even though these two essays, both written around the year 2010, have different topics and there are certainly differences in the authors’ writing styles, they still have some similarities. These two essays share a similar theme: that the internet and social media diminish our human capabilities to think and make friends. Some differences occur in how Carr and Schaub approach their readers’, one author uses personal examples and the other shows differences in word meanings. In Carr’s article, he includes his own examples to show readers how the internet has changed his capability of reading longer texts; now his attention span has greatly decreased because he is used to short style of text on the internet. At the beginning of Carr’s essay there is a short part of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oddyssey which Carr uses to show readers how far we have come with technology. Carr not only uses his own example of how technology changed him (for example, he is impatient and craves information instantaneously) but also shows how technology changed Friedrich Nietzsche’s writing style when he started using a typewriter in 1882. One of Nietzche’s friends realized how his writing changed: “His already terse prose had...
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...as email and instant messaging. This has been around for over ten years. Though an advanced form is in the works. It is people communicating by means of Web 2.0. Web 2.0, is the name for the massive forms of new communication of Myspace, Facebook, and other Social Networking Sites. People go on these sites, not just teens anymore, and interact with fellow networkers. It might have been cute and nice in the beginning but now some are getting addicted and living in these worlds that are technically extensions and some are even fantasy such a Secondlife.com Now I could write for months about these topics and sites but I would like to narrow it down to two websites on one topic. This is an informal paper in the sense that its methodology wouldn’t bode well with those of the social sciences. Also, I took surveys and they weren’t all random so from a statistical standpoint it is not a true sample. At the same time, I feel those I have chosen are from a wide range of “Myspace and Facebook backgrounds” though in this paper I generally found that Myspace has been eliminated among my social peers and is almost obselete. Though it still has credence. Alot can be explained why Myspace has failed among my peers when compared to Facebook. I and most of my peers fit the hegemonic group she explains(Boyd 2007). I asked seven questions to my subjects and there were also follow up questions when those who were interviewed gave answers that provoked me to probe deeper in this search...
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...Why I love Facebook? Just recently Facebook has celebrated its 11th birthday. For just over decade this global social networking website has 1.3 billion active users. It is a big number of people and possible exceeds some nations in the world. Yes, Facebook is popular and many people prefer virtual chatting rather than real. Why do we make it a problem? The World is changing: horse riding and pigeon post also are buried deep in history. Let`s face the 21st century reality. Janet is proud saying she has real friends, but are they so real? Let`s face the truth. What is friendship? It is relationship between friends, where people sharing spare time, secrets and so on. Basically, everyone is looking for his or her own benefits. Janet, when she feels lonely or need cheering up, calls to her friends. Obviously, she uses her friends, as she needs them right now. There is nothing to be ashamed of as it is in human being nature to use each other for own interests. However, having your friend in Facebook and browsing her photos and lifetime, you may actually be interested in her life. Every human being has his own life experience and sometimes a distance forces people to lose common interests with his real friend, not matter how close they used to be. My personal experience proves that theory. I used to have the best friend for more than ten years and we seemed so close that nothing in the world could change that fact. However, circumstances have separated us and a lack of the communication...
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...Bulletin of Education and Research December 2012, Vol. 34, No. 2 pp.19-28 Pattern of Facebook usage and its Impact on Academic Performance of University Students: A Gender Based Comparison Ahsan ul Haq & Sohail Chand _______________________________________________________________ Abstract This paper explores the popularity and usage pattern of the Facebook among the University students. A self-administered questionnaire is used for collecting data from a sample of 384 students. The study reveals that 87.5% of the students have account on the Facebook and no gender differences found. Male and female on the average spend equal time on internet. Though female users spend more time on Facebook than their counterparts but male users have more Facebook friends. Facebook use, in general, adversely affecting the academic performance of students but this adverse effect is observed greater for male students. The social interaction with the existing friends is found the most common use of the Facebook among students. Keywords: Facebook; Academic performance; Social networking. * Corresponding Author Pattern of Facebook Usage and its Impact on Academic Performance 20 Introduction Among the vast variety of online tools which are available for communication, social networking sites have become the most modern and attractive tools for connecting people throughout the world (Aghazamani, 2010). The first social networking site was created in 1997 in the name of Sixdegree.com, and now there...
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...On The Teenagers Brent Staples is an editorial writer for the New York Times. In “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace”, Brent writes about how teenagers nowadays spend too much time on the Internet to communicate with each other, and forget to interact with families and friends in the real life. Using the Internet too much cost the teenagers don’t have socializing, the real world experience that would allow them to leave teenagers behind and grow into adulthood. (Staples 18) I strongly agree with Staples that many teenagers spend too much time on the Internet for chatting and playing online games than for studying and socializing. When teenagers spend too much time on the Internet, they will miss out the experience of talking face-to-face and don’t know how to communicate to a job later. Indeed, the Internet seriously takes away the socializing time of teenagers and makes them don’t have any social skills to communicate with the people in the real world. Over the past few months, I found out Facebook has become increasingly prominent in the lives of UC Davis students. Conversations are no longer made in real life person. Instead, many UC Davis students log in to their free Facebook accounts to communicate with each other. Moreover, I saw many of my friends send messages through Facebook to their next-door neighbor instead of walking a couple steps to meet with their neighbors face-to-face. They are seriously missed out the advantages of talking face...
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...Facebook in a Crowd by Hal Niedzviecki In the article, titled “Facebook in a Crowd” Hal Niedzviecki discusses his experience with Facebook. Niedzviecki started his account and quickly had about 700 on-line “friends.” In his own words, he was “absurdly proud of how many cyberpals, connections, acquaintances, and even strangers I’d managed to sign up.” (Niedzviecki, 958) But he also had a 2-year-old at home, was a workaholic, and liked being left alone. He had very few real friends. So he decided to have a Facebook party to get to know some of his new friends. Niedzviecki invited all 700 of his “friends” to a local bar for a party. People could respond to one of three options: “Attending,” “Maybe Attending” and “Not Attending.” Fifteen said they would be there, and sixty said they might be there. He guessed somewhere around 20 would show up. He writes about what happened, “On the evening in question I took a shower. I shaved. I splashed on my tingly man perfume. I put on new pants and a favorite shirt. Brimming with optimism, I headed over to the neighborhood watering hole and waited. And waited. And waited. Eventually, one person showed up.”(Niedzviecki, 959) And the one woman who showed up to meet Niedzviecki? He didn’t know her. She was a friend of a friend. They ended up making small talk and then she left. Hal waited till midnight but no one else showed up. So, he ordered a beer and sulked. He concludes his article with these words: “Seven hundred friends, and...
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...It often feels like we make friends through random series of encounters, so you might think that social networks must look random too, however like we studied in this class they aren’t, The Network I chose is Facebook, the most popular social media platform with an estimate of 900 million monthly users. Most of you in this room are on Facebook, and for those of us who aren’t, you for a fact know someone on facebook. I chose facebook to write about because I feel like it is almost identical to actual real life social networks. Some of the topics I’m going to write about are the following ‘ 1. Hubs: People in real life and people on facebook cluster into groups which have hubs. The hubs are usually the social butterflies who know everyone, talk to everyone, and introduce their friends to one another. IF you look at your faceook friends you might have like two large clusters of friends…. This brings me to my second main topic. Small world networks 2. Small world Networks: Facebook is an example of a small world network because through these key people we are all connected to each other through only a few steps. Facebook’s “6 degrees of separation” is actually 4.74. When I moved to university It felt like the degrees of separation on face book was only 1. say story Dheeraj and amman. 3. The third thing Im going to try to do is break down facebook into network science basics. For example: All out accounts are nodes If we follow someone, that’s a directed...
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...According to statistics of the National Information Technology Council (NITC) (in Irfan Khairi 2010), the number of Internet users in 2010 reached 16.9 million people. In Malaysia, the most popular social network is Facebook with records about 6.2 million visitors (Shahrizan In addition, 2010). The study also found that the majority of students (74.7%) have Internet access at home and only 18.1 percent surf the Internet at the cafe. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suren-ramasubbu/influence-of-social-media-on-teenagers_b_7427740.html http://blog.malaysia-asia.my/2015/03/malaysia-social-media-statistics-2014.html Real Life Teens Social Media Addiction With the rising phenomenon of social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter, constant interconnectivity with friends and family is now part of a teens daily life. However as opposed to enriching their lives, is social media just another avenue for teens to become addicted to? One of the biggest problems facing our teens today is the addictive, pervasive effects of social media. It can lead to increased distractibility, anxiety, depression and apathy. Fear of missing out (FOMO) is a very real feeling thats starting to permeate through teens social relationships. Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are making this increasingly more difficult for a teen to avoid. Teens can quickly become self-absorbed in a superficial online world. As a direct result, they crave affirmations from their peers in the form of likes...
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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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.... Facebook is a very popular social networking site with over eight hundred million users. As an avid user of Facebook myself, I find it hard to believe that at one point it didn't exist. In fact, it has become so much a part of people's lives that you can learn their life story just by checking their page. Their friends, likes and dislikes, relationship status, phone number, address, everything. Sounds a little dangerous. There are positive and negative effects that Facebook has on people, and they can be quite significant. The Positive Effects Keeping in touch with family and friends- Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with your family and friends that live far away. With instant messaging and even video chat, Facebook is the perfect environment to stay connected. With the status updates, photos, and profile information, it can keep you up to date on the happenings of all of your close ones. Making new friends- Facebook makes meeting new people extremely easy due to the fact that it allows you to add up to thousands of friends, and acts as a social melting pot of the internet. If you comment on a friends status, and one of their friends comments on it, maybe you two will strike up your own conversation. This can lead to a great friendship down the road. Most people find it a lot easier to start a conversation with someone over Facebook than in real life, so a lot of high-school relationships tend to start there. It's as simple as a "You should text me some time." ...
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