Social Media: Information Technology Abstract Social Media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, are universally known and present in parts of the world in today’s society. Social media have become such a part of many people daily activities that most couldn’t image living without it. It has brought many benefits to us, but also some pitfalls. Facebook monitors how third parties use your personal data, however, they also state they cannot guarantee “that third parties will follow Facebook’s
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Asian Social Science; Vol. 10, No. 6; 2014 ISSN 1911-2017 E-ISSN 1911-2025 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Addictive Facebook Use among University Students Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh1, Bahaman Abu Samah1, Siti Zobidah Omar1, Jusang Bolong1 & Nurul Akhtar Kamarudin1 1 Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Correspondence: Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh, Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia
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dangerous cars and truck are when we are behind the wheel, they can hurt someone very badly plus even kill them. We as people need to understand that our ethical compilations need to help us from being cyborgs, to understand that we have to live our own life without having to use all the new technology. People today are totally cyborgs we use technology in everything we do. We hardly do this that does not consist of new technology advancements. Whenever, people have questions that we need to find answers
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* TOPIC- HAVE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES INCREASED OR DECREASED PERSONAL INTERACTION? * HYPOTHESIS- SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES HAVE CHANGED THE WAY PEOPLE INTERACT * JUSTIFICATION- THE CONTINIOUS USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES IS HAMPERING PERSONAL INTERACTION BETWEEN PEOPLE. * METHODOLOGY-THE RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED THROUGH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DATA COLLECTION. IT IS A QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH. * OBJECTIVE-THIS RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED TO NOTE THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
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continues to spread across the globe offering to people its sole purpose – to make daily life easier, which people easily grab. For years, people rely on technology, improving it from time to time to reach man’s satisfaction. Computer, cell phone, camera, Ipad, Ipod are proofs that the world is now on its highly contagious high-tech situation. Not so long after the invention of the computer is the rise of the internet. It makes communication all over the world possible. People learn to communicate through
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environment is the combination of social, legal, economic, physical, and political factors that affect business activities. 3 types of business pressures: 1. Market Pressures. Generated by: - global economy and strong competition - the changing nature of the workforce - powerful customers 2. Technology pressures. Two major technology: - technological innovation and obsolescence - information overload 3. Societal/Political/Legal Pressures. - Social responsibility - Compliance with
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Technology plays an important role in society nowadays; technology serves as a communication tool. The alternative way to the society in terms of communicating is the internet. Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide. Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email
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A. Rationale Social networkings on the Internet, the Facebook phenomenon, benefits of friendship, and relationship maintenance have been researched throughout this study. The literature highlights how the Net-generation, born from 1990-2002, uses Facebook to maintain their friendships. This research shows they use Facebook more to maintain and strengthen past and current friendships and less to meet new people. By defining Generation Y, it is evident recent studies on Facebook use and relationship
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The internet is a system of networks to provide information and resources across the world. The internet gives endless options of resources and information that could be used in various ways. Even though the internet is convenient and necessary, there is little security on the web. The internet is dangerous and provides little security for the people who go on it. There are so many ways that someone could be harmed from using the internet. Some of these dangers can be prevented while others are unstoppable
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SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ADDICTION Causes why Students become addicted to Social Networking Sites, students never need to lose touch again. The advent of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace has made it far easier for students to stay in touch with the people they met in kindergarten and to stay up to date on the events happening in the lives of people you would have lost touch with otherwise. Romantic relationships, In addition to people who meet and begin dating each other online
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