Topic: We are all connected to Social Networks in ICT World. Write in detail about the merits and demerits of these. Write in separate paragraphs. Do not mix both at a place and in same sentence. Discuss about the dark sides of social networks. (Mobile phone you are carrying is also part of Social Networks) Post liberalization, there came a revolution in technology which transformed India, in a way it never happened. In this era of globalization, the flow of goods and services is as simple as
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Social Networks - Negative Impact Likes and dislikes are natural responses to the opinions of human beings according to the things that they are observing at the time and personal preferences. Problems occur when these personal preferences move from the realm of opinion into the realm of facts. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of social networks to discover their potential negative effects on the users and society. The primary focus of this paper being Facebook, one of the
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THE EFFECTS OF THE MODERNIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY TO THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE 3RD YEAR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF DIVINE LIGHT ACADEMY FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013-2014 Chapter I A. Introduction The modernization of technology has been a major source of change in every human being’s daily life in this world. The society today is no longer incorporated with the past traditions and the variety of choices people have gained with modern technology are simply limitless. It has total efficiency, mobility
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study, led by social psychiatrist Ethan Cross of the University of Michigan, found that using Facebook may even make us miserable. "On the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection," says Kross. "But rather than enhance well-being, we found that Facebook use predicts the opposite result - it undermines it." The negative impacts of social media In 2012, Anxiety UK conducted a survey on social media use and its effects on emotions
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Introduction The Internet is the decisive technology of the Information Age, as the electrical engine was the vector of technological transformation of the Industrial Age. This global network of computer networks, largely based nowadays on platforms of wireless communication, provides ubiquitous capacity of multimodal, interactive communication in chosen time, transcending space. The Internet is not really a new technology: its ancestor, the Arpanet, was fist deployed in 1969 (Abbate 1999). But
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Diabetes Intervention for College Students on Campus The following pages elaborate on a diabetic intervention for college students. It will be developed for facilitation within the campus environment and will serve as a comprehensive program that will encompass the academic, practical and social support domains. The academic domain will involve an educational component, while the practical will involve testing and physical components, complimented by the emotional resources necessary for success
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Introduction Social networking sites have become very popular avenues for people to communicate with family, friends and colleagues from around the corner or across the globe. While there can be benefits from the collaborative, distributed approaches promoted by responsible use of social networking sites, there are information security and privacy concerns. The volume and accessibility of personal information available on social networking sites have attracted malicious people who seek to exploit
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Article Vol.11(1) March 2009 Effect of online social networking on employee productivity A. Ferreira * Centre for Information and Knowledge Management University of Johannesburg Johannesburg , South Africa aferreira@uj.ac.za T. du Plessis Department of Information and Knowledge Management University of Johannesburg Johannesburg , South Africa tduplessis@uj.ac.za The popularity of social networking sites is relatively recent and the effect of online social networking (OSN) on employee productivity
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Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. The website was intended to be an online version of the University's printed Facebook, a directory of new students. At that time, membership to the website was limited to Harvard students only. In a month's time, Facebook grew to include other Ivy League students as well, and within a year had over 1 million users. By the end of 2005, Facebook expanded to include, first, a network of 800 colleges and universities, then high schools, and then international students. In
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has Social Networking affected the sporting industry? From all the premier sports athletes like LeBron James, Aaron Rodgers, Andy Roddick, Michael Phelps to all of the big-time sports anchors and newscasts like Chris Berman or Dick Vitale. Social Media has changed the dynamics of how people watch and follow sports on a daily basis. Social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook are two big networks that allow people to stay up to date with their favorite team and/or athlete. Social networking
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