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    Social Networks History: In the Business environment, Social networking plays a huge role throughout the world. When it comes to the business or enterprise, social networking allows employees to share ideas and collaborate more effectively than professional tools like email, facilitating well-informed as well as faster decision-making and also helps to improve productivity. Social networking sites where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about each other and their personal

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    part of life and social media continues to be one of the most popular communication platforms. Social networks are defined as member-based websites and applications that allow users to communicate with others or find others who share similar interests to their own (Lecture two, 2016). The introduction of Web 2.0 has caused a revolution in social networking, with the use of social networking sites (SNSs) becoming an everyday practice in today’s Western society (Lecture two, 2016). Social media sites such

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    With technological advancements, social media has diversified the way news is distributed around the globe and how billions of people interact with each other. Close to 2.5 billion people will be part of social networking by year 2017. LinkedIn, founded in 2002, is one of the first websites to make a substantial move in the networking market. Since 2002, LinkedIn has grown to over 300 million users and is still growing. It is a place for job applicants to search for job positions by adding their

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    Several advantages and disadvantages of social media such as Facebook or Twitter that Kent State students are use the purpose of social media and how often students are use social media. The social networking is a tool that is used by the people of modern world. The use of social networking is common in all parts of the world. The basic idea that revolves around the social networking site revolves around the purpose to promote and help to communicate with the world. However, the technology seems

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    Social Networking has been an incredibly popular, and affected much of the society around the world. Social Networking has changed many people around the world from educational purposes to people’s life styles. Many of the Social Networking websites have a way to connect with other people all around the world, to make new friends, learn new things and even make relationships. Social Networking has increased in a very fast way in the past years, especially among college students, and high school students

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    Have you ever heard of the contagious disease called social networking. Once you get a glimpse of any of the social media websites, you’re pretty much creating a custom made trashcan to throw your education in, a fire to burn your job into ashes, and the list goes on. Social networking is used in a way where students’ education is second from their list next to staying updated in friends, family, and even strangers’ life. With these habits developed, they bring it into their jobs like Mcdonalds or

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    Social networking Social networking can be a fantastic source to set up cold calls. And, pending how your networking conversation goes the call may not be as cold as the rest. Social network usually does not get into direct sales. I have only seen one instance where three people moved to a secluded table and started filling out a purchase order. Most contacts share information and set up future communications. The main advantage of social networking and cold calls are that you have names

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    Social media, according to (Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein, 2009) is a mass of internet based application that builds on the technology and content foundation of Web 2.0 and which allows the creation and exchange of user generated content. Social media is an internet base tool that increases information sharing. Social media is a medium for social interaction, using the most available publishing techniques, and it uses, a web-based application to transform communication, making dialogues more

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    relationship with that person. Facebook and other social networks give us the ability to interact and keep up to date on the daily lives of our close friends and acquaintances. Fisher comments on this phenomenon: “Today, our number of weak-tie acquaintances has exploded via online social networking. ‘You couldn 't maintain all of those weak ties on your own,’ says Jennifer Golbeck at the University of Maryland in College Park, who studies our use of social media. ‘Facebook gives you a way of cataloguing

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    the first email was delivered, social media has taken the world by a storm with millions of demographic groups choosing to connect through social networking platforms that facilitate a multifaceted level of online communication. As of May 2011, Facebook was named the number one social networking site with over one billion users and 864 million daily active users (Satici & Uysal, 2015, p.185). The surging popularity of Facebook, which was designed to foster social interaction, is unprecedented. Conversely

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