...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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...loneliness affects how people interact with each other and their behavior. I will be researching how the feeling of loneliness drives people to use the internet more often within a group of 10 people. I will focus primarily on social media usage, such as Facebook. I predict that the more social media an individual uses, the lonelier they feel. One way of thinking about loneliness is as a difference between one's desired and achieved levels of social interaction, while solitude is simply the lack of contact with people. There is clearly a difference in the two. Loneliness is more of the way a person feels; if a person thinks they are lonely, and then they are lonely. People can be lonely while in solitude, or in the middle of a crowd. A person is lonely when they want more social interaction than what is currently available. This is why somebody can be alone and not feel lonely. If a person gets too little or too much social interaction, this could lead to feelings of loneliness or over-stimulation. One study found that although time spent alone tended to depress a person's mood and increase feelings of loneliness; it also helped to improve their cognitive state. Solitude can have positive effects on individuals. Once the alone time was over, people's moods tended to increase significantly. This could vary amongst individuals however; if an individual is always alone then their mood might not increase. What they do while they are alone could also lead to more feelings of...
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...MINI – CASE ASSIGNMENT Facebook 1. What is the name of the company? What is the industry sector? Facebook Inc. is a multi-billion dollar company in the Internet informational providers, technology (IT) industry. Facebook Inc. is one of the leading an online social networking service in the world and is continuing to grow as the front-runner in their industry. 2. What are the operating risks of the company? No company with no operational risks to consider. Operational risk is the prospect of loss resulting from inadequate or failed procedures, systems or policies. The operating risks for Facebook Inc. include: Facebook's ad revenue growth While the company's advertising model seems to be delivering great results, there are still reasons for a more cautious assessment. Mobile advertising is booming, and accounts for roughly two-thirds of Facebook's revenue, but sales conversion for traditional products from mobile ads remains low compared to desktop alternatives, and it's unclear whether there will be significant improvement on this front.On the other hand, app install ads have proven to be effective, but the company has chosen not to give a breakdown on how much revenue.(The Motley Fool) Facebook could be disrupted by competing social networks Three social media networks competing with Facebook GOOGLE+ Launched in 2011, the service looked to offer a cleaner, more user-friendly alternative to Facebook. At the time, the latter was drawing torrents of...
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...THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK ON FEMALES OF ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IN UGANDA A CASE STUDY OF MAIN CAMPUS, MBALE BY ANGAIKA SYMPATHY 113-023051-09596 A RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A BACHELORS DEGREE IN MASS COMMUNICATION OF ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IN UGANDA JULY 2016 GLOSSARY Acquaintances - A person whom one knows but who is not a particularly close friend. Cognitive - Based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledge. Collaboration - To work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor. Consensual – Existing or made by mutual consent without an act of writing. Correlate – Either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other. Cramming - To prepare hastily for an examination. Cravings - An intense, urgent, or abnormal desire or longing. Demography - The statistical study of human populations especially with reference to size and density, distribution, and vital statistics. Exclusion - The act or an instance of excluding. Flourish - To be in a state of activity or production. G.P.A. - Grade Point Average Gregarious - Tending to associate with others of one's kind. Immersion - The act of immersing or the state of being immersed. Inconclusive - Leading to no conclusion or definite result. Innocuous...
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...My Facebook, Not Yours! The world we live in today has become a place of global sharing. This sharing can include anything from pictures, to videos, to what you are eating for dinner. Even though we think everything is labeled to us as our intellectual property once we post it, there is minimal regulation on what can actually happen to this information. Some employers are now looking into and even implementing contracts or disclosures that require employees to disclose their Facebook user name and password in order to initiate or continue employment with the company. However, there is enough privacy policy regulation out there with regards to Facebook that someone should consider their rights before signing over their username and password to an employer to get a job. While a Facebook profile review can assist employers in determining character of potential and current employees, it should not be allowed because it can violate privacy policies, intellectual property rights, and employment regulations that every person should be entitled to under the law. Ever been really upset with your job or your boss? Everyone has had those moments where you just want to vent. Using your Facebook page is a perfect option, right? Not so much! Employers are becoming stricter on what they look for in an employee and Facebook gives them a personal insight to who you may be. Many already review the profiles of potential employees without the employees consent. But with the world-wide...
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...Using Facebook as a Medium for Discussions of English Grammar and Writing of Low-Intermediate EFL Students Thanawan Suthiwartnarueput (noiloveshome@gmail.com) Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Punchalee Wasanasomsithi (punchalee.w@chula.ac.th) Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Abstract The present study explored the effects of using Facebook as a medium for grammar and writing discussions of low-intermediate EFL students. The data were collected from the students’ utterances asking for explana-tions about English grammar and writing that were posted on Facebook, their gain scores in the pre-test and post-test, and interview responses. The findings showed a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the pre-test and the post-test (t = 6.65, p = 0.00). Most common topics of discussion involved sentence structures, followed by word meanings, parts of speech and then relative clauses. It was found that English grammar was worth promoting for discussions on Facebook because there were correlations between the gain scores in the grammar and writing parts at the significant levels (r = 0.399 in the pre-test and r = 0.859 in the post-test). The students also had positive attitudes toward using Facebook as a means of learning grammar and writing. As an alternative learning tool, Facebook provided them a convenient and attractive means to engage in discussions with the teacher and other users who had better grammatical knowledge. 1 Introduction Facebook is a...
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...1) What is New Narcissism? In the text Me, Me, Me by Sarfranz Manzoor, we hear about a young 19-year-old teenage boy called Chris Crocker, who’s defending Britney Spears. He is crying and yelling at people to leave her alone. As if that wasn’t enough he puts the video on YouTube so that everyone can see it. What makes him think people care about his opinion? The answer is his big alter ego, and that is my definition on what new narcissism is. Another example would be The X-factor series. More than 150.00 people were ready to humiliate themselves just to achieve instant stardom. They were all convinced that they deserved success regardless of their lack of talent. The internet is strengthening our ego to the edge. The dating website Beautifulpeople.net only has members determined completely by looks, with existing members of the opposite sex voting on new applications. That for me just screams new narcissism. So does a recent study by psychologists at San Diego State University, concluding that young people are more narcissistic than ever before. Professor Jean Twenge found that two-thirds of the students scored above average on narcissism. 2) According to the text Student narcissism on the rise by Janice McDuffee, Today’s college students put themselves first. Lead author professor Jean Twenge of San Diego University calls the students “Generation Me”. She has made some studies, based on that she determined that students have become drastically more narcissistic. One reason...
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...| Informative SpeechJune 6, 2015 | Professional use of social media By How many of you all have a Facebook account? What about a Twitter account? In today’s world, 56% of people check Facebook daily, there are 120,000 tweets sent every second, 64% of Twitter users and 51% of Facebook users are more likely to buy the products of brands they follow online. They are over 150 industries and over 200,000 organizations on LinkedIn. Social media tools offer unique opportunities for change and productivity. Today, I will be discussing how professional use of social media allows us students to network with professional and personal connections, help with job searching and build our online presence and brand. First off, when I think about social media being used professionally, the first thing that lights a bulb in my head, is LinkedIn. LinkedIn allows you to connect with classmates, faculty, and family professionally. You can also find new opportunities for internships and full time positions. You can manage what potential employers learn about you from the internet. It allows you to research the company you may choose to work for. Let’s be clear about something though, LinkedIn is not the place to post party photos or what you ate for breakfast this morning. I mean, I highly doubt your future employer cares about that. LinkedIn gives you the keys to controlling your online identity. Secondly, since the job market today is pretty much an ocean with a lot of fishes, one should find...
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...advertisement on the site. Facebook also uses its resource of user information to make profit. The sellers can reach their target customers when they pay for the information and Facebook increase revenues by providing information of its users. Businesses use social networking sites to harvest a vast amount of information about users and their preferences for many different products and services to create carefully targeted promotions. Businesses use the site to interact with potential customers. The sites are so addictive that they have become very powerful marketing tools. The Facebook Platform provides third-party developers a platform for applications like games, plug-in features for user profiles, and other programs which are fully integrated with the Facebook site. Mark’s statement began another wave of concern about Facebook’s attitudes toward their users’ privacy. Users were presented with a message that asked them to alter their privacy settings. The default option was to make user content publicly accessible to all Facebook users and anyone else who had enough technical savvy to access the data using the tools that Facebook made available to software developers. This change outraged many privacy advocates and regulators, particularly given that Facebook had just settled a class action lawsuit over privacy issues concerning a feature they had introduced a few years earlier called Beacon. Facebook announced a series of new features to interrogate what Facebook might do with people’s...
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...How To Market Facebook With Businesses Harry Pruitt Benedictine University Author Note Harry Pruitt, Student in Business, Benedictine University. Abstract We normally judge a book by its cover, so visuals can be very important. Online marketing through Facebook is no different. Most of our influences are through social media and more people are turning to social media to gain more business for their companies. Facebook has been successful in helping with business marketing, spending as little or as much as you want or need to. Facebook is the social platform for web based businesses near and far. Even though Facebook has its different problems, marketing within Facebook has been very successful thus far .Using different strategies and building creative profiles makes for a better business outcome. Bigger dreams become bigger goals, by staying on the right path you accomplish you objective and achieve your marketing goals as a business owner. How To Market Facebook With Businesses Facebook is an online social networking service. Facebook was founded in February 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and some of his friends at Harvard University. The website was first used for Harvard University students only, but then it gradually excelled to various universities, high schools, and even 13 year old children. Before entering Facebook, the user must register and create a personal profile. The use of this social network is to add other users as friends, exchange messages, and receive automatic...
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...Employers Use of Facebook in Recruiting Peter Engler, Peter Tanoury Introduction With the advent of new web technologies, a grey area of ethical responsibility exists concerning the use of the technology within the workplace. In the case of Facebook, some individuals and entities have used this new database of personal information in ethically questionable ways. The lack of clear rules and standards has led to the dissemination of personal information across the internet for purposes other than what Facebook was intended for. One of the more disturbing ethical infringements on personal privacy is the use of Facebook profiles in employment screening. This new method of employment screening by companies is a clear infringement on the rights of Facebook users. Consider the following scenario: A recruiter at a Denver based company has a stack of resumes on their desk from recent University of Colorado graduates. Due to time constraints and the fact that each applicant appears equally qualified, the recruiter decides to go online and check their Facebook profiles for any relevant information to aid in the hiring process. However, the recruiter does not have access to the CU Facebook network and asks one of their CU interns to log on for them. The recruiter begins searching through profiles based on the stack of submitted resumes. The first profile pops up. It doesn't take long before the recruiter sees that the applicant’s political affiliation is "very liberal" and listed under...
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...Proposal Provisional title- Social media and the hidden spaces of online identity management Topic: Social Networking and Interaction This project is concerned with computer mediated communication (CMC) between individuals via the social networking platform, Facebook. Created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, Facebook is a social networking forum wherein individuals can share photographs, personal information, conversations and friends (Buckman, 2005). Although other online sites such as MySpace, Friendster and Bebo are also designed to carry out such functions, Facebook is generally considered to be the leading site of its kind, currently consisting of over a billion users worldwide (Facebook, 2013). Facebook has increasingly become deeply integrated into user’s daily routines (Debatin, 2009). Indeed, a recent study found that students spend an average of 38 minutes a day ‘Face-booking’ (Muise et al, 2009). This equates to almost 9 days every year being dedicated to communication activities via the medium. With the internet increasingly being accessed via mobile devices, anytime, anyplace, it is likely that this figure will increase over time. With these ideas in mind, it is interesting to consider sites such as Facebook as capable of revealing important information about how young adults interact with one another in the information age. Platform functions such as wall posts, comments, statuses, private messages and so on provide a vast space for a number of different text...
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...Bischoff November 2011 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lord Ganesha, thank you for removing all obstacles in my path to complete this dissertation. I would like to take this opportunity to express my heart-felt gratitude towards a number of very special people whose contribution, support and understanding were essential for the completion of this study. I would like to thank my father Geghia, mother Lavina and two brothers Shalendra and Rishendra for the tremendous support through these past three years .To Orisha, a very special thank you for the belief and encouragement you provided me with during this period of studies. Having people like you in my life has made all of this possible. My heart goes out to each and every one of you. To Prof. Christo Bisschoff, thank you for the guidance, wisdom and encouragement throughout the study. You have made this a truly enjoyable experience. “Om Namah Shivaya “ 2 ABSTRACT In this day and age, with the very strong impact of globalization, digitalization and social media, advertising is changing. Many companies and advertising role players are forced to implement new consumer and business models and apply innovative business strategies. Social media marketing has become a norm for most companies. The process of marketing is used through social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. By utilising the social aspect of the web, social media marketing is able to connect and interact on a much more personalised and...
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...Exam in Corporate Finance | Case Study: Facebook (FB) | | | | Question 1 (Focus: FB’s 2012 annual report) (1) What is the business model of FB, i.e., how do they generate revenues? Facebook is the biggest social-media platform worldwide with $1.06 billion MAU (monthly active users) and $618 million DAU (daily active users). Its business model is set up on three pillars: Facebook users, developers and marketers. a) Users Facebook creates a direct value proposition for Users. The company creates value for users by enabling users to * Connect and Share with friends * Discover and Learn about News around the world shared by the user’s personal contacts * Express themselves and share what they think about and what matters to them * Stay connected everywhere, especially due to Facebook mobile applications. With its users Facebook does not generate direct revenues, since the usage of all Facebook products are free of charge. However the users indirectly generate revenues. It is only possible for Facebook to create revenues with marketers and developers because of its amount of users. b) Developers Developers get attracted by the huge customer base of Facebook. They have the opportunity to build up applications and websites which connect with Facebook. Facebook offers a variety of tools and application programming interfaces on its Facebook Developers Platform that easily interacts with Facebook. Due to that easy access there are more...
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...dominate the late night food craze in Los Angeles. No matter your company size, social media can be used to start a conversation with your target market and elevate your brand. SEOP‟s Social Media Consulting Team has successfully worked for clients and built strong campaigns that drive traffic and build community. Through our experience, we have developed the proprietary 5 Pillar Model that teaches our clients how to use social media for business and how to execute the strategies that we develop together. This EBook is your guide to the 5 Pillars of social media marketing, and how you can leverage social media for your company‟s success: Pillar 1: What is Social Media? – We breakdown social media marketing into its core components so that you can understand the fundamentals. building a conversation with your clients and consumers. Pillar2: Common Mistakes Companies Make With Social Media – Though you may understand social media and have a solid foundation to build on top of, it is still possible to fall into the common pitfalls and mistakes that most companies make. Avoid the crucial mistakes and you‟ll be well positioned for social media success. Social Media is about Page 2 Social Media Marketing Pillar 3: The Different Ways Companies Use Social Media – Now that you understand the common pitfalls, it‟s time to take a look at the companies that get it right. Companies are successfully using social media to drive sales, build traffic, hire employees, build a community, and create...
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