LinkedIn

Linkedin is another website different from facebook and is made for companies and workers within an environment who needs to share and receive important documents that are secured. Both of these websites are prime examples of social networking in two different…

This article investigates why consumers use social media. It relies on the well documented communications theory of Uses and Gratifications to base its research strategy and method. Given the limited literature on why consumers use social media, the design of the study was exploratory. The researcher utilized the qualitative methodology of in-depth face-to-face interviews to collect the data necessary for the analysis. Williams concluded that there are “ten uses and gratifications for using…

How we connect to people is different online than it is face to face. Social media allows us to be free to be the person we really are inside without worry about how people perceive us, even when we don 't feel we can be that way in person. For example, I have a couple of really good friends, we have been friends for over twenty years, and we haven 't always lived close to each other. Before we all had regular access to social media, it was hard for us to talk to each other, share things, and…

Is Social Media Affecting Your Well Being? Imagine that you get a call from the principal every day because your daughter or son is always on their phone, due to the distraction of social media. That it’s only been two minutes of being in class when the teacher already kicked them out because she or he had already warned them, yet they don’t listen. That for every single peep or ring they hear, they have to look at their phones right away because there that addicted to social media. What are we…

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more, have had an impact on the way humans are interacting with each other. These social icons are not just a medium for communication, but they offer more to it, than that. Social networks have attracted many individuals worldwide because of their potential to address millions of users and possible future customers (Krombholz, Merkl, Weippl, 2012). These platforms are becoming a norm in today’s world that are difficult to…

Identification of New Product For our project, we looked for new products on sites such as Indiegogo and Gizmag. The former is a donation-based crowdfunding site where entrepreneurs, inventors and artists can share their ideas with the public in the hopes of them becoming a reality. The latter is an online technology magazine that introduces the world’s newest technologies to the public. We believe these are good sources because they are very up-to-date and are a great way of finding the newest…

Searching, frantically looking for days, fearing the worst, and praying for the best. Imagine sitting in your house while your child is missing. Police questioning you asking for all of your child’s details, height, weight, hair and eye color, clothing they were wearing. That is what Nicole Cable’s mother experienced in May of 2013. Nicole, who was 15 at the time, left her house to meet a 20 year old man she had met on a popular social networking website, Facebook, and never made it home. Today…

Have you ever applied for a job or to a college and wondered why you weren’t hired or admitted? Have you recently spent any time reviewing your digital footprint? If your answer to the last question was no, then you may have just found the answer to the first question. In today’s society, there is a multitude of social networking websites available to almost anyone with internet access. These sites allow users to provide a seemingly harmless view into their everyday lives, sharing with others…

professional networking website, LinkedIn. This website helps you gain connections with other professionals, companies, organizations, and other marketing groups. LinkedIn is essential for those who want to broaden their horizons with networking and meet others that share the same interests in their intended field. LinkedIn is essential for promoting yourself and your accomplishments. When searching for a professional, their LinkedIn profile is what usually shows up first. LinkedIn will also…

A few months ago, Netflix premiered its third installment of their hit show Black Mirror, beginning with the first episode entitled “Nosedive”. The main character, Lacie Pound, lives in a technology-obsessed, quasi-futuristic world where both friends and strangers can rate each other’s popularity and individual interactions out of five stars via cellphone and smart-lens technology. Most everyone has their phone glued to their hand, and are constantly updating their Facebook-esque social media…