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which makes sense since Facebook which was opened on February 4th 2004 and now has well over 1 billion registered users, 500 million of which have connected to the “Facebook messenger app”, with an average time of 6 and a half hours per month spent on Facebook which makes it 1 out of every 7 minutes for the average user, and each day Facebook users collectively log 10.5 billion minutes which turns to be 20,000 years. Facebook also has over 7000 different devices access Facebook per day, which…

Since then the situation has only become worse. One survey has found that “some 70 per cent of those aged 18 to 34 said someone has written rude posts on their Facebook wall, posted nasty tweets or otherwise been rude online. That drops to 60 per cent among those aged 34 to 55” (Shaw, “Is social media making us rude?”). (What is significant about these figures is that more than half of social media users have said…

to have a clear and definitive answer as to what constitutes as social media. Social media is a conduit in which users can share various and vast quantities of information on a regular basis. When one hears the term “social media” sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, MySpace and Twitter are some of the common names to come to mind. The fact is, sharing of information in a public setting has been around longer than we realize. Social media refers to the exchange of personal opinions and…

Dave Hingsburger has been a blogger since October 2006, after reviewing the blogs it seems that Dave has two sides of the spectrum. Dave did not always have a disability, in fact he has only been disabled for a little over 3 years. In his blogs Dave gives off a perspective of being disabled but not having to move like it. In several blogs Dave demonstrates the social adapted model of disability, which is defined as “States although a person's disability poses some limitations in an able-bodied…

Facebook Nearly one in four people worldwide will use social networks in 2013. The number of social network users around the world will rise from 1.47 billion in 2012 to 1.73 billion this year (Sumanik,2012) In today’s world social media are the main socialization agents. Most people, especially, teens use social media to stay connected with their loved ones, share their feeling, and entertain. However, since there are so many social media, Christians parents have a lot of concern and asks how…

websites to choose from; such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Whichever you choose, it will be a great way to contact your friends. After reading “Dangers and Benefits of Social Networking”, I will be able to list all the pros and cons of social networking and see how it would affect our lives across the planet. The benefits of having social network is that you can contact any of your friends and relatives on each websites that are provided. Websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,…

Methodology In this study adopt Ernest Bormann’s symbolic convergence theory and the fantasy theme analysis. We pick 5 different pages on Facebook, which post related post of occupy central issue and attract lot of people to interact on the post. The 5 Facebooks pages are : “BBC-媒體/新聞/出版”; “佔領中環-社群”; “Occupy Central佔領中環-社會、文化網站”; “Occupy Central-社群”; and “讓愛與和平佔領中環Occupy Central with Love and Peace-社群”, the analysis include the number of the original…

As of 2016, 90% of young adults as well as two-thirds (65%) of adults are using social networking sites and more specifically, over 30% of the population get their news updates from sources like Facebook and Twitter (PewResearchCenter). First came AOL chat rooms, then Myspace, and now sources like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are shaping the way people communicate and are providing a promotional and marketing platform. In areas like business marketing, CEO’s are pushing for employees to make…

Another study tells that “ Provo Police Department, Lt. Matt Siufanua said using Facebook allowed detectives there to quickly spread word two weekends ago about a 13-year-old boy who was taken by his non-custodial father to Mexico.” “We were able to put it on our Facebook page immediately and shoot it out,” Siufanua said. “We asked for tips through the public and we were able to get some information back through our Facebook and the information we pushed out.”…

regular using social networking sites, such as posting daily activities on Facebook, can significantly improve the ‘seven components of quality of life’ of the elderly users in everyday life, including family relationship, emotional well-being, happiness that come from religious involvement, independence and autonomy, social leisure activities, living standard and financial stability, and healthy…