Essays on Facebook

The aim of this essay is to present you with the comparison and analysis of the context of two articles. The first article is ‘Friendship, Facebook-style’ written by Aditya Chakraborty and published in the Guardian on January 11, 2011. The second article is ‘Flocking’ behavior lands on social networking sites’ written by Sharon Jayson in 2009 and published in USA Today. Both articles examine the nature of nowadays’ relationships as they have been affected by technology and new technological appliances like Facebook. The essay will present you with a review of each one of the articles along with the

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With the growth in social media websites including; Facebook and Twitter, companies have moved to these platforms in promoting themselves. Most of the customers for many companies are active users of these social networking websites; therefore, it is cost effective for them to market themselves through this medium. Advertising on social media platforms allows organizations to reach a broader market at a very low cost. It allows for promotions to be embedded in the customer’s minds by constantly updating their Facebook or Twitter pages. However, companies that are selling complex products or products for old people would not

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INTRODUCTION:

I. Social media has revolutionized the way business is conducted.
- Companies who do not take advantage of social media platforms are put at a disadvantage.
- Social media gives companies access to a wider consumer base for a cheaper price

BODY:

I. Social media gives companies an opportunity to connect with a wider audience.
A. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube have a considerable amount of users.
1. Facebook has 1.23 billion users, Twitter has 243 million monthly active users, Instagram has 150 million users and YouTube has 1 billion users with 4 billion views

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The great impact of social networks on nowadays society is unquestionable, as everyone can observe by himself or herself how all the current events are quickly dispersed and distributed through all over the world by the common people using their PCs and/or smartphones. Everyone has become a news agency nowadays with the development of the social networks, as the information you post on your profile can be available for everyone, can be discussed and argued. However, the information content in the social network is completely various including fake information, which purpose is to draw the viewer`s attention, shock

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Question 1

Terms Of Service (TOS) agreements such as those by Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are sometimes unethical in how they treat consumers who use these companies’ services. For example, in a case where the terms change and the user is not notified, it is unethical because it is unpractical for the user to keep checking whether TOS agreements have changed or not. This is because most of them are often voluminous and very difficult to peruse through on a daily business. Social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram should notify their users every time their Terms Of Service

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Introduction

Facebook.com made their biggest acquisition with popular IM (internet messaging) service WhatsApp for $19 billion ($4billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook stock and $3 billion in future stock). This deal is a behemoth in comparison to their past purchase of Instagram in 2012 worth $1 billion. This paper will argue over this acquisition and its viability through analyzing the pros and cons for Facebook through this acquisition. Considering everything, the main argument here is if this deal is a ploy to acquire the competition or it is an attempt to diversify into new markets. WhatsApp service allows users

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Annotated Bibliography

Kovach, S. "WhatsApp Is Growing Even Faster Than Facebook Did When Facebook Was The Same Age India." Business Insider. Businessinsider.in, 20 Feb. 2014. Web. 6 Mar. 2014.
This article is written by Steve Kovach of Business Insider Magazine, which is one prominent and trusted publication in the business, information technology and above all corporate world. This article discusses how has in past few years growing at an unprecedented speed and have become of the most popular apps available for IMs. This article reflects on how WhatsApp has 450 million customers that are growing at the rate of 1 million

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Falling Ball Viscometer

- Objective
The intent of this experiment is to find the dynamic viscosity of Glycerol by following falling ball viscometer method. Multiple steel spheres will be used to fall down the liquid and the time taken to fall a specific distance will be measured.
- Background
A body falling in a liquid is subjected to gravitational, buoyancy and drag forces which results in the achievement of a terminal velocity of the fall. According to Archimedes principle, we know that buoyant force is equal to weight of the displaced liquid. Implementing these principles, we get following equations, which result in

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Falling Ball Viscometer

Objective:
Purpose of the Falling Ball Viscometer experiment was to measure the viscosity of glycerin or glycerol by using falling ball viscometer technique.

Background:

When a body falls in a liquid under the force of gravity, it accelerates until weight of the body is balanced by the buoyancy force and drag force. Terminal velocity is gained by the body at this point. Viscosity of the liquid can be evaluated by measuring this terminal velocity of the body in the liquid.
In this experiment a steel sphere was allowed to fall in glycerol and dynamic viscosity of glycerol was measured by

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The basic reason for Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp is for the 450 million users and that increases at the rate of 1 million and potential of reaching billion users.
Despite the popularity of WhatsApp, the business is not worth $19 billion. The reason it was acquired was that Facebook competitor Google wanted it too and for .99 cents a user it was a direct threat.
What are the reasons for the acquisition? What are the pros and cons associated with the acquisition for Facebook? What are the lessons associated with this takeover? What is the future of WhatsApp post-takeover?

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Influence of Facebook on the Body Image of Adolescent Girls

Media and peer pressures usually influence the way many teens especially girls see or observe themselves. Additionally, the media generally distort their mental perception, which normally pushes them to engage in risky behaviors in circumstances when they feel that they may not meet the stated goals or objectives. Mass media such as Facebook have emerged to become a massive part of almost every adolescent girl. It is evident that self image issues usually lead to a lot of negative risky behaviors such as eating disorders, cutting, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual addictions, and bullying among other threats. Therefore, the

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Founded during the year 2004, Facebook today is the world’s most loved social networking site. However, the success of the company is equally contributed through venture capital, which the company raised in various rounds of financing over the years. The company raised its first successful funding from the venture capital firm, Accel Partners during 2005, which made a bet of $12.2 Million on a year old website which was run by a college drop out. The amount was raised solely for the expansion of the company and to reach out to more and more users. The funding raised

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In today’s information age, more and more details about people’s personal and professional lives are available than ever before. To that end, many people have concerns about how that might affect their lives and futures; how much do we want others to know about us? In Erin Moriarty’s “Did the Internet Kill Privacy?”, the journalist discusses the dangers and pitfalls of having personal information about yourself online, and how it affects one’s academic and work lives. Meanwhile, Rhonda Savage’s “Facebook: Fired Up or Just Fired?” takes a more even-handed approach to the Internet, showing

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Although I don't think that Facebook is all bad, I do think it's more of a negative impact on my life than a positive one. I like how Facebook makes keeping in touch with people easier, but Facebook can also be overwhelming. Thanks to Facebook I know more about my friends, but the information I learn isn't always that valuable. For example, I love how with Facebook I can keep in touch with my friend from elementary school that moved to Utah 15 years ago. We were pen pals for years after she moved and then lost touch in

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The Social Network is a movie supposedly based on the incorporation of Facebook, the friendship between Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, and the breakdown of their friendship. At first glance, it would appear that the movie is simply about the website that began in a dorm room in Harvard University and created by five friends in 2004. While the movie is based on real people and real events, the accuracy of the film will remain a question. But in analyzing the essence of the movie, accurateness to the actual events that transpired during Facebook’s first year are immaterial

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The rapid expansion of social networks has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years and rightly so. With millions of users and a huge array of different networks, social networking has entered into the mainstream and from the looks of it, it will remain the same way for a coming decade or so. Simply put, social networking is a term used to describe the use of certain social networks to communicate and interact with each other. Whether it is done through a cell phone, laptop or a desktop computer, social networking allows people to catch up with

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Abstract

This paper is on the Facebook and the platform it has provided to its users. The first section of this paper will discuss the ideas shared by the authors about social media sites especially Facebook. The second section will cover some f the important points made by the authors in their article. The next section will have reflection and understanding from the research paper. The final section will discuss the use of learning from the research paper in working environment.

Introduction

Social Networking sites like Facebook, have allowed many people to stay in touch socially though their personal profiles and

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Introduction

The speed with which technology improves with the passage of time is faster than the speed with which customer needs increase overtime. Thus, technology that earlier met the needs of the masses eventually exceeds the demands of the market. Additionally, technology that earlier serves only to a small number of customers can eventually match needs of mass market (Schilling). Social networking allowed users to build their personal profiles, look for others and communicate both privately and publically. These sites make users locate their online friends and restrict certain information from their friends and sub-groups relating through friends. By the

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Article review

Introduction
The article “A Facebook ‘friend’ request from the boss: Too close for comfort?” by Peluchette, Karl, and Fertig (2013) discusses what might be the employees’ reactions and responses to Facebook friend requests from their supervisors and/or bosses. The authors’ are interested in the employees’ viewpoints rather than their supervisors’/bosses’. They base their arguments on the issues of self-presentation, leader-member exchange (LMX), and developmental networks.

Summary

The first issue the authors discuss is the change of Facebook users from young adults to the older generation, businesses, and organizations. Their argument is that the original intended Facebook use has changed

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When it comes to the topic of social media, things like Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging, most of us would agree that these new technologies are the wave of the future. Although it seems that millions of users have more than welcomed these media sites, there are still some controversies surrounding their usefulness and intent. Published in The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a convincing article titled, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.” Gladwell argues the differences between real social change and social networking. Real social change, as Gladwell states, can only be accomplished through “strong

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We don’t prefer working anything manually like checking the temperature of the weather or mailing someone, not through post office, but the ease of email is our first preference. Like the character in the article want to have Cyber Free Sunday but still he was curious in the morning about what emails or messages he have on his Facebook and Gmail. Although there was no such important mail or message that he missed out, but the curiosity was present as to what I am missing out.
Nowadays, social life and professional task all require to stay connected, and

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Cyber-hate

Cyber-hate is an offence of propagating hate majorly through the internet. It is rampant in the 21st century due availability of devices which enable access to the internet such as smartphones, tablets and computers. Cybercrime has become such a thorny issue that combating it has become the main agenda of many a government. The social websites were also invented in the 21st century.
Cyber-hate is so important a topic since it addresses the issues at stake and pertinent to the human race, the shortcomings that come with them and probably considers recommendations for combat of such vices. Cyber-hate can

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Why do you think Facebook has been so successful?

Facebook is social networking site, responsible for connecting millions of people round the globe. People find their friends and family members from all the distant places in the world right on their desktop screen every time. A facility charging you nothing, yet connecting so intimately, makes you love it all the time (Ebert and Griffin).
Sharing of updates, presence and absence from places, sentiments, success and grief and getting feedbacks from friends, all are positive attributes of Facebook. With billions of users globally, commercial corporations and business owners find it the best way to attract such a huge chunk

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This section covered the topic of how a lot of people use social networking sites in order to define themselves based on the friends that they have or the amount of friends that they have, some people get to a point where it’s not just about being friended by people they haven’t seen in a long time but more of where they stand with their friends on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. For example, if a friend of a friend gets invited to a party but the leader of those group of friends don’t;

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Social media continues to change the definition of communication with the number of social networks available now. Facebook and Twitter are just two of the most popular ones that have improved the way information is shared across various parts of the world. Thus, events occurring in one part of the globe become easily accessible and disseminated to thousands of people. Whereas in the past information takes weeks to reach a magnitude of people, now, with a click of a button, awareness of political, social, economic, and entertainment news becomes easy. Because of the ability of news to go viral,

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When looking at the pattern of actions and business approaches that define a company’s strategy it is clear that some do not apply to social media sites such as Facebook. One of these sectors are the actions to gain sales and market share with lower prices based on lower costs because there are not many ways a social media site can see substantial savings by lower costs.
Actions to enter new product or geographic markets or to exit existing ones is an approach that Facebook is poising itself to take advantage of with its new Trending option. By

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A number of technology geeks have given various explanations about what is web 2.0. The exact definition is still a topic of debate. However, I believe that web 2.0 is a web-based application, which can be accessed from anywhere, and the users can be contributors to content on internet, rather than just being viewers. Is web 2.0 a boon or bane to the society? In discussions about web 2.0, one controversial issue has been about its various opinions. In a recent study, the researchers observed that, young people used this technology more extensively than older people did. They say

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Lady Gaga, a famous American singer and songwriter, was born Stefani Germonatta on March 28, 1986 in New York. Her strong musical inclination was observed even when she was very young. She started playing the piano at the age of four, and has strong fascination over the hits by Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper. She started out her career in music as a songwriter for other artists, while performing for rock and roll bands. It was when she was eighteen that she decided to quit school and pursue a fulltime career in music. With the stiff competition in the

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Problem 1

Voting
In 2016, in the course of new presidential election, a voter will vote via the Internet. A voter should have either a National Tax Number or national identification number. A voter should have his national identification number together with his thumb impression. The online system will read a thumb impression with the aim of making sure there is no falsification, and one person is able to vote only once.

All members who participate in the presidential elections in 2016 will have to complete their election campaigns before October 13, 2016, five days prior the day when election takes

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Brief History

The company was established on 15th November 2012, and the primary objective was to be the leading insurance company in the United States of America. The line of business is insurance but apart from this the company also finances new business. The company provides insurances cover for all categories starting with business risk, accidents, health among many more other. The company has various ways to reach their customers. First they have a customer care department where they address all questions that clients May seek answers. After the customer has served there are questionnaires that they fills to help the

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Introduction

With the growth of the internet, there has been internet communication, thus the growth of social media. Social media platforms have been developed with each social media platform having a unique way in which communication is undertaken. Different platforms have different features and characteristics. They each have a specific way in which to attract customers and users. This paper will focus on comparison and overview of three popular social media platforms. The paper will focus on the differences and features that make each of the social media tools to be unique. Social networking tools have helped improve business communication

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Section 2: Literature Review

Implementation of Facebook in Nursing Education Programs
2.1 Introduction
The inception of various social networking sites, such as Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Twitter, and LinkedIn, has attracted billion of users from all over the world, bridging geographical barriers by providing a seamless service of communication through which people may build and expand both their professional and personal networks. Especially, Facebook being at the peak of its success and being the most popular social networking site, various businesses have started making use of this great social platform to leverage their business operations and marketing practices. The education sector too is not

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Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” delves into the effects on art by the mechanical reproduction of such implements as the camera as it relates to photography and film. The rise of the digital age furthers the progression began by the advent of photography and film of the destruction of aura in favor of mass production and accessibility. Now, more than ever, people can instantaneously view and critique artwork, becoming experts merely by their ability to access and lay claim to a digitalized piece of art. Just as the camera lens removes

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How social media contributes to depression and isolation?

Introduction to Social Media
Social media refers to the computer-generated tools that can help people in creating, sharing, or exchanging information, pictures, and videos on virtual communities and networks. According to researchers, social media can be defined as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content" (Kaplan, and Michael 61). Moreover, with the help of social media people can discuss and modify user-generated content. As a result of the introduction, and continuous increase in the use of social media, significant changes

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The ancient philosophy was based on simplified understanding of the world and human nature. Ancient Greek philosophers were the pioneers in social aspects of human life study. Aristotle, one of the brightest minds of that time, has introduced the term “ethics”, a list of specified rules of behavior in human society. In terms of his study “Nicomachean Ethics” he has come up with the definition of friendship and its types. The main purpose of this paper is to consider friendship in social networks such as Facebook in the context of Aristotle’s philosophy and to determine whether the genuine

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Impact of Facebook on teenagers in America

The generation is what is referred to as the I Generation. This is the generation that is constantly connected to the internet surfing, texting, instant messaging, Facebooking, Instagram, twitter and so forth. Their lives seem to revolve around these sites and they cannot seem to function properly without them. It has come to our attention that while these sites and activities seem necessary and vital, they do have effects on persons who are constantly using them. The internet has sought to close the boundaries that exist in cultures. Through it persons from every walk of life can access any

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Taking Control in the 21st Century

The advancement of online networking and online engineering has changed the way people live and had provided a faster and easier means of communication. The emergence of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Instagram had made it possible for people to connect with their family and friends around the globe. Aside from changing the way we communicate, digital technology had also altered the meaning of privacy that poses risks to the American society. This phenomenon is indicated in Clive Thompson's article "I'm so Totally, Digitally Near You: the Daring New Universe of Computerized Closeness", Jeffrey Rosen's "The

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There is a plethora of social media sites that enable people to stay in touch with each other. Facebook is one of the biggest largest and evolved leading social networking platforms that facilitates people to stay connected to their families and friends. People also routinely use Facebook to chat with their loved ones as well as to share their photos and videos with others. It is a blessing for international students who leave their homes and travel to foreign countries for a better and higher education. Facebook helps them stay connected and updated on the developments back home. Facebook

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In the 21st Century, technology is developing at a rapid pace and private information is easily available. Despite this, we are still in complete control of our lives.
In regard to technology, tremendous advancements have been realized as evidenced by the creation of new software, applications, and high tech equipment. These technological advancements are admired by many, but, are they really good for us? Are these advancements a necessary part of our lives or are they wittingly taking control over our lives and privacy? Corporations such as Apple Inc that deal with personal computers, online services, computer software, and

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