1. Introduction 1.1 Background Ever since the so-called “eve” networks of Internet founded in 1969 (http://www.livinginternet.com accessed on 11.05.10), till now in the 21th century, the new era of Internet surfing, people‟s life has become not only material but cyber. The social networking sites, as a new online practice since late 1990s, has gained noticeable popularity among Netizens. The social networking sites have been penetrating into people‟s daily life. Create a profile on a social networking site, make friends, and tell the others what you are doing at the moment, all these have become a new lifestyle of people today, especially young people. Moreover, it has become a new multimedia platform for users sharing their own lives with …show more content…
It provides similar function of profile creation and information sharing. As the application is associated with the user‟s Windows Live ID, it may owe its popularity to the widely used Windows Live Messenger programme. MySpace.com MySpace is the earliest developed social networking site among the four. The brand has once been one of the most popular sites of this kind. However, its former popularity has been overtaken by Facebook in 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org accessed on 20.4.10). 3. Industry Remote Environment Analysis Finlay (2000) sees the “remote environment” as crucial to business that it is “a model of those elements in the environment” that may affect the business‟s decision making but it is beyond the influence of the business. Those different elements‟ effects on different industry may also vary according to the nature of the individual industry. 3 As the industry has no control power of the remote forces, the analysis of those elements become of notable value for either existing players in the arena wishing to remain its domain or new entrants planning to overtake the crown. The social networking sites as a newborn industry is more limited by the remote environment. The evolution and expansion of the industry is also a process of adaptation and trial. The following section will explore the remote environment of social networking sites using a PEST analysis. 3.1 Political/legal 3.1.1 Privacy Ever since the invention of
Technology, especially social networking, has formed a huge part in society’s daily lives for the last several years. Facebook, one of the major social media platforms, as stated by Mark Hall in his article Facebook American Company, has become the largest social network with more than 1 billion users across the nations, and most of these users fall into the
Social networking sites (referred to more broadly as social media) are a collection of websites and applications that enable users to swap ideas, post updates and comments, and participate in activities and events while sharing their interests with other users. From general chit-chat to propagating breaking news, scheduling a date to following election results, gentle humor to serious research, social networking sites are used for a variety of reasons by various user communities. Nowadays, nearly every person who has access to a computer and Internet indulges in some kind of social networking on a daily basis. The introduction of social media has changed the entire dynamics of our lifestyles: the ways we live, work, and maintain our friendships. Despite its numerous advantages, social media does yield some negative effects. However, the benefits of social media greatly outweigh its negative effects.
Technology has become very advanced and very important to our society. One thing that has become very big because of our technology is social networking. There are many positives to having easy access to social media, but there are also negative effects as well. The impact of all this social media has overall a negative effect on our daily lives in society. In “‘r u online?’: The Evolving Lexicon of Wired Teens”, by Kris Axtman, Kris talks about how instant messaging has affected the the communication of the younger people in our generation. In “Note To Selfie”, by John Dickerson, he writes about how people are pausing their lives to post about their happenings on social media. These two authors discuss some negative aspects to having social
Ellison, Steinfield and Lampe identify that social networking sites are among the main use of internet today. According to the authors, social networking sites are among the social media platforms that facilitate interaction in the computer environment. The writers identify the main motives for using social networking sites, for example, Facebook. One of the benefits is that Facebook improves the quality of life both social and at workplaces. According to the writers, social media has become common in the society that a majority cannot remember previous life without them. Social networking sites have become popular among college students who find it as a major platform for social interaction.
The rapid growth of technology in our society has become more dominant than it was in the 17th and 18th century. Today, technology is used for almost everything in our day to day lives. But the most common usage of technology is for communication and industrialization. However, every good thing has its disadvantage if it is over used, and since technology has become very dominant, it is used by both young and older people but more predominant among the youth of the today. Even more, technology has brought about social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, my space, piazza.com, instagram, tango, and last but not the least texting. According to socialnetworking.procon.org, “47% of American adults used social networking sites like
The Global Organization owns and operates the world’s third largest wireless telecommunications company, Global Organization Telecommunications (GOT). GOT provides wireless voice and data services to millions of customers worldwide and ranks third in terms of market share behind AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless.
Within a span of 20 years, social media has erupted and has taken over. In 1997, Six Degrees was created and that was a website to find other friends. From there Myspace was next and that was created in 2003. In 2005, Facebook and Twitter followed and those sites are widely used by millions of people today. In the short time span, the social
The advent of social networking revolutionized the manner in which people interacted and how businesses are conducted. People and business organizations were able to connect with individuals and entities across geographical barriers that were previously difficult to overcome. Social networking sites have revolutionized the manner in which information is shared resulting in an increased social awareness of various issues that affect societies. Through social networking, new opportunities have been created
MySpace is considered by many to be the inaugural social networking site on the web, though it proceeded Blogspot by four years. Launched in 2003, it allows carte blanche for user pages, allowing users to modify
Social Networking sites are playing an important role in personal life as well as business. A social networking site has become very popular for people to connect and share their interest with family and friends. Although the use of social networks is increasingly on the rise, many users are properly informed of the risks associated with using social networks. The risks as well as the security and privacy issues of social networks in business and public policy need to be evaluated and studied. Knowing these risks and challenges should be addressed to avoid potential loss of private and personal information. Social networks suffer from various security and privacy. This paper analysis also examines the issues of security, privacy
Communicating in today’s society has become a lot easier with these social networking sites allowing us to communicate with people with a simple click of the mouse. This essay is going to prove that social networking sites are evolving and that communicating online is making it easier for people to communicate, easier for people to invite others to social events and allow people to have romantic relations online.
The year 1983 improved many lives and made the impossible possible, and that was the internet. The internet changed the lives of people and it has become an essential part of their lifestyle; yet as years went on, the internet has progressed into something bigger than people would have ever thought of. Then the next big life changer was in 2004 and it changed society mental and physical appearance. This invention has become eat and sleep process and it has turned into an addition to the people on Earth. This addiction had become people’s new favorite drug and that is Facebook. Facebook is the most popular social networking website on the internet. The main concept to having the social network is to keep people in touch with all their
Since the very beginning, face-to-face communication has been an important factor in our lives. This was the only source of communication for a long period of time. Over time, we developed new ways of communicating with each other such as emailing and talking on the phone. Human beings have become so reliant on the use of electronic devices to communicate. Although this is a good way to keep in touch with friends, it can become a serious problem to many individuals. The growth of social media sites began to grow in the year 2003, which was the year that the famous website MySpace was created. For example, I’ve been using social media websites to communicate with my friends for a decade. When I was younger, social media sites were the go-to
with entities similar to them, so that leads us to understand what is socialization. It is whyan online dictionary defines it as well as to “make fit for life in companionship with other”. Now with others in their natural act to stay instinctively together the human beings have founded, created, deployed, or developed and completed successfully so many activities and projects that on the twentieth century the “ early social networking on the world wide web began in the form of generalized online communities such as Theglobe.com(1995), Geocities(1994) and Tripod.com(1995)”(web). Nowadays with the technologies progress social networking services count myriads of websites for various topics of purpose connection from where Facebook actually appears to be the leader of them we meet all over the world with a surprise observation how attached are the crowd to this giant of the social network. Therefore, our preoccupation will be to determine if Facebook with its rapid growth and attractive character is not going to ban finally human beings social and natural attitudes precisely by considerably reducing our outgoing and social instincts.
Social life is the first sphere that was influenced by the Internet. As far as communication is one of the most important things for a human being, the Internet became very helpful in this field. We still remember the time when people could exchange the latest news and ideas with the help of telephones and written mail, which practically does not exist anymore. Due to the fact that the quality of telephone communication was poor and the delivery of the written letters required much time, the new digital means of communication introduced by the Internet were revolutionary. The web introduced such an innovation as social media or the ability of the unlimited and high-quality communication in the Internet (Claywell, 2013). It is easy to log in