...1/12/15 Essay Social media has taken the world by storm. It is usually the younger generation that uses social media than any other demographic. It is amazing as to how the Internet is revolutionizing and changing people's lives. For example, social media can be a huge distraction. The internet is a network that allows everyone to become a different person. Also, schools had enough of students abusing social media networks in school. Social media must be banned from schools. The internet has provided our world with different means of communication and access to anyone at any second. The result is led to social network becoming a huge distraction especially towards students. It becomes such an addiction that they aren't able to control it anymore. The Kaiser family foundation reported that children ages 8 to 18 spend approximately 7 or more hours using social media networks and entertainment per day. To make this clear when you add text messaging, the hours soar up to 11 hours a day which is horrible for students. " People are paying more attention to the environmental stimuli at the expense of focus ( Anthony Wagner ) He is trying to say that students today would rather waste their time on social media instead of focusing on the things that will be beneficial to them later in life. This is one reason why social media should be banned. The internet is an easy way for people to escape their reality and create an altered image of themselves online. Social networks give people the...
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...rk sites should be banned as they cause a breakdown in real-life communication.” Do you agree? Social network sites can be defined as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile in a bounded system. One can articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection and also view their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature of these connections may vary from site to site. A social network service focuses on building social relations between people who share similar interests or activities. They essentially consist of a profile, the person’s social links and a variety of additional services. Most social network sites provide a means for users to interact over the Internet, such as instant messaging and email. There has been a huge interest recently of the impact these sites have on society and an increasing number of academics have become interested in studying them. There are many dangers and problems in using these sites; however, there are also many benefits, to both the individual and society. I will explore the issues related to using social network sites; paying particular attention to the quality of communication it allows users. There have been many concerns put forward by academics, people of the older generation and particularly the media about the apparent dangers of social network sites and some have even asserted that a ban from them be put in place. Some of these concerns include...
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...Should Social Networking Sites Be Banned? Social Network sites are known as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile in a bounded system. One user can contact a list of other users with whom they share a connection and also view their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature of these connections may differ from site to site. A social network service essentially consists of a profile, the person’s social links and a variety of additional services. Most social network sites provide a means for users to interact over the internet, such as instant messaging and email. There are many dangers and problems in using these sites; however, there are also many benefits, to both the individual and society. I will explore the issues related to using social network sites; paying particular attention to the quality of communication it allows and what are the positive and negative effects of social network services? Social networking sites allow children who are scared or nervous to communicate with others to gain more confidence interacting with one another because these days many children avoid communication because they do not feel confident interacting. The social networking sites also allow people to become more familiar of the evolving world around and all the things that are going on around them because some children do not know about the latest things and what’s going on around the world. The social...
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...Security from Social Media Shakion Melton COMM/215 » Essentials of College Writing March 23, 2015 Julie McCabe Security from Social Media Even though social media helps service members communicate with their families and stay in contact with current events, social media should be banned from all phases of the military because enemies of the military are using social media to target service members and service members themselves could unwittingly post sensitive information for everyone to see. The Enemy is using Social Media against Us Just this past Saturday, “a previously unknown group calling itself the Islamic State Hacking Organization posted the names, photos and addresses of about 100 U.S. troops online, calling for attacks against them” (Castillo, 2015). According to the online article, “the file appeared to include information that is already available through public records and social media accounts” (Castillo, 2015). It also “claimed to have hacked military databases and said it was leaking 100 names so that our brothers residing in America can deal with you” (Castillo, 2015). While public records are not something that can be changed directly, the use of social media by military service members can be eliminated; therefore eliminating another possible threat to our Soldiers, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guard that serve in this country and abroad. Service Members Make Mistakes As a service member myself, I have seen the errors from...
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...Social Media Social media affects your privacy in many ways. For many of Americans today, social media has become a part of their daily routines. Social media has become an integral part of life for the majority of Americans and for many people around the world, about two-thirds to three-quarters of Americans use social media, the number increases every year. People over the United States go online talk to their friends, play social games, find jobs, and do many other things. Teens are also very likely to use social media; 76 percent of those ages thirteen to seventeen do so. At just 35 percent, seniors are much less likely to use social media. Social media use is also popular in the rest of the...
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...internet censorship in Pakistan holding the precautionary measures taken by PTA and how the religious values are protected by blocking various anti-Islamic sites. The guidelines are being followed by the Government of Pakistan in order to supervise the censored material on the internet. Introduction Censorship is the act or policy of omitting the obscene, corrupt and politically dangerous content form the books, movies/ films etc. (Wikipedia) Internet censorship is to restrict every type of content that includes immoral and offensive approach. (Wikipedia) Till 2010 in Pakistan, people had the open and unrestricted access to every kind of religious, political, social and sexual escalating content on the internet. The websites offering the critical content against Pakistani government and military are also banned. Pakistan government has not really an effective blocking system but though it has restricted some sites to protect the security of internet. (Sohail, 2007) PTCL (Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd) took an initiative in April 2003, to restrict the anti-Islamic and Pornographic sites, whereas it also worked on the banning of blasphemous sites on the internet to protect the religion. Federal Investigation Agency wanted to have...
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...Message, E-mail, or wall posts, this generation has it all right at their fingertips. This type of technology gives one the chance to publicly share their information about both themselves and their daily lives to other online users and friends all across the world. Though this may sound like a wonderful piece of social technology, a huge number of problems have been linked to the children and teens of this newer generation and the Internet. Having the capability to spend a lot of time around a computer while still feeling social has led children and teens to have a mix of behavioral and communication problems in the real world. Not only that, but the Internet has become an instant catalog of faces and personal information that predators jump at the opportunity to use. Health issues and addictive behaviors are also a problem that is now manifesting itself in grade-schoolers who not only use the Internet as a social device but also as a source of daily entertainment. This new generation is quickly loosing its abilities to communicate and participate in the real world as the ever-growing cyber world continues to hold them captive. Paragraph 1 The Internet Web-based social networking has been around since 1997, but originally started out rather user-unfriendly and having minimal interactive technologies. The cyber world refers to this as Web 1.0, the “information-oriented web” (Harrison and Thomas 112). The Internet was mostly formed of static web pages, and worked more for someone...
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...READING CLOSELY AND THINKING CRITICALLY The positive effects of posting on a social network is that you can stay in touch with your friends and it can also be a way to express yourself. It was a serious mistake because due to his poor choice of words the post indicated that he was threatening the police guard. Few adjust the settings because they feel like Facebook has enough privacy and some are also unaware of the setting options. For the case in paragraph 1 I believe the officials did the right thing. The student was statement about the police officer that might have no even been true. This put the officer in danger and was the wrong way to approach his problem. He should have talked to the school officials instead of posting on social...
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...vs. Frosty” (1992). In this short video clip, the boys already looked a lot like the characters they would create to make South Park, the one difference being that Cartman was called Kenny at that time and Kenny had no name. When Brian Graden, Fox network executive, saw this clip, he commissioned Parker and Stone to make a second one as an animated Christmas Card. This time it was called “The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus vs. Santa Claus” (1995) in which Jesus and Santa Claus fight over the meaning of Christmas. This animated short was widespread throughout Hollywood and the internet and became such a success that the duo was offered the possibility of developing it into a series. Given that Fox did not want to distribute it because of the presence of Mr. Hankey, a talking piece of feces, Comedy Central picked up the offer. The very first episode called “Cartman gets an anal probe” was aired on August 13, 1997. Ownership and Market Today, the show is still aired on Comedy Central. This channel however, has gone through a number of ownerships since South Park’s first episode made it to the screen. When the channel was first created, it was owned by Time Warner, the same company that owns HBO, a well known premium cable television network, and called The Comedy Channel. In 1991, two years after the creation of The Comedy Channel, Viacom launched a rival channel called “Ha!”. Both channels were exclusively devoted to comedy and were huge competitors up until their merge two years later...
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...An Analysis of The Case Study of Google’s Move Out of China An Explanation of the Problem Google is an American multinational Internet Corporation that was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. When Google entered the Chinese market, censorship frequently interrupted its service. China has always been a relatively closed society and the government has tried to keep control on what its citizens’ experience on the Internet and social media. Google could not accept the government’s censorship; the company believed that its right of freedom of speech was being violated and its motto, “Don’t be evil,” was being conflicted with. Moreover, Google was also concerned that the government was behind cyber attacks attempting to access the accounts of Chinese human rights activists. When the conflict between Google and the Chinese government became more severe, in 2010, Google announced that it had stopped censoring its search services, had left the mainland, and had moved its search engine services to Hong Kong. Since Google did this, there has been a heated discussion about Google’s decision. Gains by pulling out of China： Google insists on its principle of “Don’t be evil,” which is the informal corporate motto of their company. The company claims that, as part of their self-proclaimed core values, “Don’t be evil.” is a central pillar of their identity. Moreover, according to Ovide (2011),"Don't be evil," is a part of their Core Values: "Do the right thing: don't be evil. Honesty and...
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...Facebook is the world’s largest social network used daily by millions of individuals worldwide, but privacy and safety is far from this amusing social network. Facebook can be accessed by anyone, and anywhere, which makes it unsafe, risky and concerning. Individuals who make a facebook account have their private information displayed to the entire world, and even if they private their information, it can never be safe online. Facebook is accessible in some schools throughout the world, but it should be banned since it has a negative effect on children and their studies. Facebook causes students to lose their concentration towards studies and school. Due to facebook bullying has begun to affect many school children. Facebook is not only unsafe but causes children to have lower self-esteem. Facebook has so many negative effects in people’s lives, and should not be accessible to school children under any circumstances. To begin with, facebook causes students to lack in their studies and school. When facebook is accessible at school, children spend their time on facebook when they should be studying and concentrating on their assigned tasks. Facebook is like a dark hole for children that will ruin their career and future. Also, having access to facebook in computer oriented classrooms causes children to concentrate on facebook instead of the teacher’s lectures. Furthermore, facebook is like a jail, you sit in front of it all day and you do not experience the things happening around...
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...org 407 The Impact of Social Media and Social Networks on Education and Students of Pakistan Waqas Tariq1, Madiha Mehboob2, M. Asfandyar Khan1 and FaseeUllah3 1 Department of Computer Science, City University of Science & Information Technology, Peshawar – Pakistan 2 Department of Management Sciences City University of Science & Information Technology, Peshawar – Pakistan 3 Department of Science & Technology Unit UMM AL QURA University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia Abstract The impact of social websites can be good on students but if we have a closer look on the real impact of social networks. Today it is ruining the future and carrier of students. The social networking websites like https://www.linkedin.com, http://www.facebook.com/, https://twitter.com/ and https://www.orkut.com/ etc. are continuously distracting students from their studies. The main focus of student should be education but unfortunately today’s student are emphasizing on such sites which can be a complete wastage of time. Social Networks was only an electronic connection between users but unfortunately it has become an addiction for students, teenagers and even adults. This paper presents impact of social networks on education, students and impact on life of teenagers, further it describes how social networking websites are auditory and dangerous for youth and teenagers. Keywords: Social Networking, Education, Students, Impact of Social Networks. 1. Introduction Internet...
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...because of its vast potential in its use for the internet. Current Use of the Web Wal-Mart’s easy to use website also allows customers to pay their Wal-Mart cards on-line as well as purchase items from its on-line store. Currently Wal-Mart uses the web for inventory, re-ordering items that running low in supply. According to Karpinski (2002), “Wal-Mart mandated that all its suppliers begin to move all their EDI (electronic data interchange) over the internet.” (p.15).The idea behind such a move is to cut down on cost and improve customer service. To move the EDI over the internet was a great a move but that only takes us to the current time. Implications of the Web I would recommend using social media as the next step to using the web for businesses. The article “An experiential, social...
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...The use of social networks by students: the possible risks and implications Claire Wright B.A. (Hons) Business and Marketing – Digital Economy module, 2010, Level 5 |Keywords:Social Network Sites, Facebook, Student Usage, Implications | Introduction This paper focuses upon the use of social network sites by students, and the affect they have on education and the personal life of users. The majority of the study will be focusing on the use of Facebook, as it is the most popular and well known social network site available, however other sites will be addressed in the study to ensure it has a comprehensive view of social network sites today. It is widely acknowledged that social networks are a big part of modern day society and are widely used, with almost half of children aged 8-17 having an active profile on at least one social network site. (Bicen and Cavus, 2010. p.17) There are many discussions and arguments as to the impact that social networks have had on the lives and the education of students and young people that will be identified in this review. With social networks playing an important part in the lives of students, a full understanding of their usage, or non-usage is needed in order to examine the impact that such sites have on the lives of their users. The Advantages of Social Network Sites Social networking sites improve the confidence of students due to the social interaction...
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...moving toward judging someone only by their demonstrated character is the cure for racism. Campbell, D. G. (2012). The cultivation of racism. Academic Questions, 25(3), 389-393. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12129-012-9310-y The controversy has been framed in terms of gender (women), sexual preference (gays), religion (Muslims), ethnicity (Hispanics), and class (blue-collar workers), among others. But it is perhaps more stark in the case of race. Racism against "Blacks" is frequently cited as a reason why society needs to change not only the way "Blacks" are perceived by members of other races, but also how "Blacks" perceive themselves. (I place the names of races within quotes to indicate that I am using standard terminology, but I should not be taken as endorsing it.) In order to fight racism, "Blacks" need to develop positive attitudes toward themselves and to fight for policies that benefit them. But...
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