out on social intimacy with other people. Also, SNSs not only give knowledge and information but also some of them five hoax and makes troll of information. Nowadays, teenagers put more time on SNSs and this would be high risk in their academic performance. Nevertheless, students must give proper education on how these problems could be avoided. Not only students should rely on these educations but, it should start on their hands and become responsible on manipulating these social networking sites
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(SNS) such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google+, and etc. People of all ages are flocking to the Internet and are signing up for social networking sites by the millions. The quick rise in popularity of SNS began in the second half of the last decade partly because of their extensive usage by school and university students (Kirschner and Kaspinski, 2010, p. 1239) Facebook, for example, has now over 1.15 billion users, one million web pages are accessed using the “Login with Facebook” feature, 23%
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(IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue 4, July-August 2012, pp.788-797 A survey on Facebook and Academic Performance in Nigeria Universities. Dr P.M. Ogedebe, J.A.Emmanuel, Y.Musa Dept. of Computer Science Bingham University, Nigeria Abstract This paper test students’ facebook usage and their academic performance. The paper was also intended to find how pervasive the use of facebook by University students plays a role in their academic success. A 20 question questionnaire was designed
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The Effect of Social Networking Sites on Students' Academic Performance in Girne American University, North Cyprus By NAPOLEON, EGEDEGBE Abstract: Social network is a platform for people share their ideals, to meet new friends and to reconnect with old friends. Social networking sites offer people new and varied ways to communicate via the internet, whether through their PC or their mobile phone. Examples include MySpace, Facebook, Skype etec. They allow people to easily and simply create
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Online Social Networking Dangers and Benefits Social Networking Site Dangers One of the most popular social networking sites is Facebook. While Facebook restricts members to those who use a ".edu" email address, this may give you a false sense of security. There are hundreds of thousands of active ".edu" email addresses of current students and alumni in just the United States and many of them can gain access to your site. Some colleges and universities will grant free email addresses to alumni;
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Calderon James Paolo B. Belgica December 17, 2011 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Social Networking Sites (SNS) are of the most popular topics being talked by all the people. Examples of Social Networking Sites are Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Yahoo Messenger, Plurk, Tumblr. Social Networking Sites help us to communicate with our friends, classmates, and relatives but they also allow us to communicate with other people who share common interests with us. Through these
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the evolution of social media, it changes the way one communicates and how one finds and shares personal information, exchanges ideas, feelings, photos and videos at a very overwhelming rate. Social media sites that allow social interaction include Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, MySpace, and many other various blog formats. Through these sites, youth of today can share things about themselves for the whole world to view. These social media sites offer the youth a new way to access communication and entertainment
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students used it extensively to get global access. These social net working sites such as twitter and facebook have become a raging craze for everyone nowadays. The negative effects of these networking sites overweigh the positive ones. A Site like facebook have caused some potential harm to society. The students become victims of social networks more often than anyone else. Ari Herzog said that Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. (Oct. 6, 2008). It
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11-1-2011 The Effects of Social Media on College Students Qingya Wang Johnson & Wales University - Providence, qaw733@jwu.edu Wei Chen Johnson & Wales University - Providence Yu Liang Johnson & Wales University - Providence, yul118@jwu.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/mba_student Part of the Education Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Repository Citation Wang, Qingya; Chen, Wei; and Liang, Yu, "The Effects of Social Media
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11-1-2011 The Effects of Social Media on College Students Qingya Wang Johnson & Wales University - Providence, qaw733@jwu.edu Wei Chen Johnson & Wales University - Providence Yu Liang Johnson & Wales University - Providence, yul118@jwu.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/mba_student Part of the Education Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Repository Citation Wang, Qingya; Chen, Wei; and Liang, Yu, "The Effects of Social Media
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