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    Facebook is a free, widely used social networking tool that allows anyone to craft an online profile and use it to connect with others (Rouse, 2014). On Facebook, businesses currently have many options to choose from to promote their business. One example is by using external ads that send users to the domain of your choosing for a fee—considered the “classic” ad (Marrs, 2013) but users can also create an online identity for their business that they can then use to interact with customers on a closer

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    Social Networking Sites and Privacy

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    Introduction What do about ninety percent of us have in common? It’s the social networking sites that everyone is a part of these days, whether it’s your twelve year old nephew or your grandmother. Spending hours and hours connecting with your old friends and making new friends over the social networking sites has become a part of everyone’s daily routine. Nonetheless, recently privacy concerns over the social networking sites have taken its peak. Background It all started several decades back,

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    Background Social networking is not new, but really a part of human culture ever since prehistory. However, social networking to the nth level, globally and through the Internet, is clearly a late-20th, early 21st century, phenomenon. Social networks are social structures in which there are ties between individuals. These individuals form clusters of like-minded interests, commonalities, and/or cultural communities. Modern social networking sites began to become extremely popular when two things

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    changing, is social networking. There are two sides to every story. One side of the effects of social networking is that it is beneficial to society by informing people on particular situations in the world and on current important events. The other side views social networking as dangerous and drama filled. While there are benefits and dangers to social networking's effects on society, I will argue that social networking has changed society more negatively than positively. First of all, social networking

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    Student Answer: The use of social networking comes with mixed reviews because this tool can be used to both grow a company and potentially harm a company . Companies that utilize social networks can benefit form the influx of customers. Using social network platforms allow the customer to reach millions of customers. ` The viral nature of social networking encourages all the people who are connected to you to share what they like, plan to attend, or want to participate in` (Minerof, 2010). In the

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    Nowadays everyone has accounts on multiple social networking sites and they spend a lot of time on updating the developments in their daily life and uploading various media like pictures and videos. People really enjoy doing this kind of activity, to be able to communicate with their friends, family members, and also meet new people. For certain people who use social networking as a marketing forum, this is an effective method. However social networking comes with its own share of negative effects

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    The use of social networking sites is rising at great rates. Although it is known that social media can have a useful impact on lives, often times people forget that with a positive comes a negative. Abusing social networking is one of the major causes which has left a lot of consequences to health, behavior and personal information of the users, especially to teenagers. The media has many its downside. First of all, abusing social networking leads to influent directly and indirectly

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    Social Network have been a helpful and reasonable approach to make early associates and acquire upgrades from companions we don 't usually meet as it encourages correspondence between associates in the digital world. For all intents and purposes everybody nowadays possesses a gregarious systems administration page and it can be tedious to look after it. Keeping an online status, every now and again upgrading the profiles and amusements on Social networking destinations require much consideration

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    Many people worldwide are affiliated with social networks everyday. Keith Wilcox and Andrew Stephan’s did a research on how social networking, particularly Facebook, was used to boost one’s self esteem with tie strengths. Tie strength can be defined as strong or weak. Strong ties can be described as the close connection to their friends, while weak ties are considered their “acquaintances that are distant friends” (Wilcox & Stephan, 2013, p. 92). Wilcox is an assistant professor at Columbia University

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    Social networking has had a big impact on the social lives of teenagers. With the social networking platform, they are able to talk to each other, upload pictures, and be constantly bombarded with the breaking news of the day, but there are also negative consequences of having this type of network at their fingertips. Examples of these negatives would be cyber-bullying, identity theft, and viruses and malware. I believe that overall, despite all the negatives that may come with it, social networking

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