...each column if needed. Topic: Social Networking Addiction SourcesCauses | Source A | Source B | Source C | Source D | Source E | Introduction: Thesis statement: Social networking addiction can be caused by the basic human psychological needs and can lead to some detrimental effects | 1. In fact, social networking sites do cause more harm than good.2. Identity theft is a huge problem in today’s society and has come about as a result of the rapid expansion and availability of internet technology and the increase in personal data found on social networking sites.3. Another negative impact that social networks have on our relationships is the fact that they might weaken our strong ties with acquaintances and also bring about physical social isolation | 1. Twenty-five percent of the respondents appear to have no close ties with friends which appear in their Facebook friend list. | 1. Millions of Malaysians are losing valuable sleep each night because they are addicted to social networking according to findings from a new sleep report. | 1. Facebook and other social networking sites may affect your mental health by causing psychotic episodes and delusions, researchers warn. | 1. Facebook addiction has become an alarming problem among teenagers. | Topic Sentence 1:There are some basic human psychological needs that cause social networking addiction. | | | | | | Topic Sentence 2:There is no doubt that social networking addiction will bring negative effects to human’s...
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...The Effect of Social Networking Sites to the Academic Performance of Students of STI College Muñoz EDSA By: Alice Zandra Louisa R. Parilla AB Psychology PSY201A Presented to: Mr. Ralph Amoroso Communication Arts II, Professor STI College Muñoz-EDSA In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Psychology ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest appreciation to my professor in Communication Arts II, Mr. Ralph Amoroso, who made me make this thesis paper for as a final requirement, which stands as a stepping stone for me to be ready for the future of making more formal thesis papers for my future courses that I would have to take. I would like to thank the participants and respondents that conducted the survey on, without you I wouldn't have done this thesis paper. Thank you for participating, cooperating, and being very patient with me in the process of making this thesis. In addition, I would like to thank my fellow colleagues and my family members for their support, encouragement, and assistance. This study would not have been successful without all of you. CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction The Internet is more than just a means of seeking information. People discovered that the Internet could be used to connect with other people, whether for business, making new friends, reawaken old friends and long lost relatives. The emergence of social networking sites simplifies the whole process as they are easier...
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... Local Related Literature Social networks gave a big help to everyone, especially among the students businessman and other members of the society. Social networks has different features that may enjoy by the people all around the world, what the problem is, people loses their self-control in using them. Facebook is the most popular social networking site today wherein people may share and upload videos, pictures, messages and chat. Twitter is also famous to every people nowadays wherein people can share their feelings, thoughts and ideas. Through twitter, they can easily be connected to their favorite celebrities and they can also be updated on what is trend all around the world. Aside from these two, Tumbler, MySpace, and Bing also became a raging craze to everyone. Social networking communities will definitely stay due to its millions of users. In addition, students today stay on these accessibilities of information they may get in social networks. Social network may help them in giving knowledge in thesis and journals but still negative effects of this still overweighs especially about losing their self-control. Social networks bring a big benefit about communication because through this we can easily communicate our loved ones despite of the geographic distance. Social network may also help celebrities to be more contact to their fans because through these sites they can easily post what are the recent happenings about them. Through social networks we can be updated...
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...The impact of Social Media Addiction on an Individual’s Social Life & Mental Health and the factors that causes Social Media Addiction Anku Sherpa ACADEMIC YEAR 2014 Data Driven Decision Making Stamford International University ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to understand the factors that causes Social media addiction and the impacts of Social media addiction on the social life and mental health of its users. The research will be conducted amongst users of Social media in Thailand and will highlight whether Socio Demographic factors such as age, gender, level of education and marital status influence Social media addiction. The respondents for the study will be chosen through non probability – convenience sampling and the research will focus on only quantitative approach. Lastly, the research study will also attempt to illustrate whether there is a relationship between Social media addiction and Human interaction and Mental health. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This Thesis would not have been completed with the continual support of our facilitator Dr. Apitep Saekow and we would like to thank him for his continued support and guidance throughout the writing of this research study. Our sincere gratitude also towards the Stamford International University for providing us with an opportunity to conduct this research and providing us with the necessary resources through the Stamford Library. Our Special thanks also goes out to all our friends who helped us...
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...The Impact of Facebook Addiction on Academic Performance of Filipino Students Mart Anthony D. dela Peña Comm2 – C2 Mrs. Noemi Agner March 15, 2012 The Impact of Facebook Addiction on Academic Performance of Filipino Students Thesis Statement: Although Facebook has offered various benefits to the Philippine society, its addiction has become a major problem on the academic performance of Filipino students. Outline: I. The History of Facebook II. Facebook as a Social Network A. Facebook Profile 1. Facebook Photos 2. Facebook Groups 3. Facebook Events 4. Facebook Developers 5. Facebook Notes B. Facebook Chat and Messaging III. Facebook Addiction A. Facebook Addiction Defined B. Causes andNature of Facebook Addiction C. Status of Facebook Addiction in the country IV. Impact of Facebook Addiction on Academic Performance ofFilipino Students V. Ways in Minimizing Facebook Addiction in the Philippines The Impact of Facebook Addiction on Academic Performance of Filipino Students Facebook has paved the way for a faster, more comfortable and efficient social interaction.Even though many social networking sites preceded it,Facebook is the current biggest social networking sitewith over six hundred million users worldwide and it has an annual growth of 45.2% (Inside Facebook gold, June 2011).In addition, it has more than 28 million users in the Philippines which ranks no. 8 in Facebook...
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...Boston Honors Thesis Program in the College of Management College of Management 12-1-2011 Facebook Addiction: Factors Influencing an Individual's Addiction Erica Sherman University of Massachusetts Boston Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/management_hontheses Part of the Marketing Commons Recommended Citation Sherman, Erica, "Facebook Addiction: Factors Influencing an Individual's Addiction" (2011). Honors Thesis Program in the College of Management. Paper 5. This Open Access Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Management at ScholarWorks at UMass Boston. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Thesis Program in the College of Management by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at UMass Boston. For more information, please contact library.uasc@umb.edu. Facebook Addiction Factors Influencing an Individual’s Addiction Erica Sherman Erica Sherman MGT 478- Honors Thesis Advisor: Werner Kunz Director: Professor Jeffrey Keisler December 2011 ABSTRACT Prior research has proved that an individual could be addicted to the Internet in general, but no research has been done specifically to social networking sites such as Facebook. This study investigates how factors such as personality, gender, procrastination, boredom and ones values may affect the amount of time they spend on Facebook, further concluding that they are either overly obsessive or not about the usage...
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...the time the internet is a helpful tool it has begun to cause a problem in our society. Internet addiction is becoming a larger and larger issue. The US Census Bureau estimated that $126,697 of the over $3 billion in retail sales was performed online in 2007 (Hou). Websites like Facebook and Twitter have blown up among teens and young adults. To put it in perspective, Facebook saw 24,940 visitors in 2008 but in 2010 that number jumped to 171,109 (Hou). Smartphones and other portable devices have made the internet more accessible to us as well. With phones like the iPhone and Android people can access Facebook and other websites from wherever they are. Researchers showed that about 30.8 percent of smartphone owners accessed social networking sites on their phones in 2010. (Hou) With this amount of technology available at our fingertips we sometimes forget about the real world. Internet addiction something we must watch for in our society, and many of its symptoms mock those chemical dependency. Internet addiction can cause withdrawal, mood swings and strained relationships with friends and family. (Hou) The typical person who suffers from internet addiction is single, white college educated male who spends approximately 30 hours on non-essential computer tasks like Facebook and online gaming. (Hou) The question then becomes, what do we need to do to make sure that internet addiction does not become a pandemic in the United States? Right now there are no clear policies in place...
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...A Study of Blocking Social Networking Sites in Visual Basic.Net at Gates Computer Laboratory of Informatics International College Diliman A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Informatics International College Diliman, Quezon City In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Course Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Marlon Brian F. Palmares, BSIT Kevin F. Zaldarriaga, BSIT June 20, 2012 CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING A. INTRODUCTION With the rapid phase of the changing generation, the youth is now more demanding in acquiring technologies that will suit to their needs, especially when it is applied to their studies. However, many students are spending a lot of their time in social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking services while spending less time on their studies. This occurring incident aroused us to look into social networking sites and how they affect the student’s academic performance. In this study, the researchers will review how social networking sites might affect the productivity of students. Social Network is one of the reasons affecting the student’s productivity in school. Because of these, students are lacking concentration to the lectures on their subjects. Most students are not paying attention when the professor is trying to explain the lesson or giving the instruction of what to do, the students are busy browsing social networking sites, and that would end up that the...
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...Studies Foreign Literature Social networks gave a big help to everyone, especially among the students businessman and other members of t he society. Social networks has different features that may enjoy by the people all around the world what the problem is, people loses their self-control in using them . Facebook is the most popular social networking site today wherein people may share and upload videos, pictures, messages and chat. Twitter is also famous to every people nowadays wherein people can share their feelings, thoughts and ideas. Through twitter, they can easily be connected to their favorite celebrities and they can also be updated on what is trend all around the world. Aside from these two, Tumbler, MySpace, and Bing also became a raging craze to everyone. Social networking communities will definitely stay due to its millions of users. In addition, students today stay on these accessibilities of information they may get in social networks. Social network may help them in giving knowledge in thesis and journals but still negative effects of this still overweighs especially about losing their self-control. Social networks bring a big benefit about communication because through this we can easily communicate our loved ones despite of the geographic distance. Social network may also help celebrities...
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...lives particularly in their studies when used to much. They develop an addiction caused by computer abuse, which is known as “Computer Addiction”. Computer Addiction is defined as a strong attachment with a machine or what can be displayed on it that the usual criteria for impartment through addiction (Lowison, 2005). Too much computer usage could affect ones academic performance. They skip classes; do not listen to class discussions, low grade scores and poor class performance. The purpose of this research is to identify the level of students who exhibit too much computer usage. Background of the Study PATTS College of Aeronautics was founded as a joint enterprise of Filipino and American pioneers in aviation, the Philippine Air Transport and Training Services (PATTS) started operations in 1969. Its primary aim was to establish a manufacturing and assembly power plant for training aircrafts, which at the time of its founding was a new and pioneering objective by its five founding directors. Its secondary aim was to put up an Aeronautical School to meet the domestic and international demands In the fields of aviation and air transportation industry. Students of PATTS nowadays are shown having the symptoms of computer addiction. From the location of PATTS, there are many computer shops within the 500 meter radius. Some of these computer shops are Hynix, TNC Trojan, Airline and Aero Lab. Computer Addiction to students could...
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...Title: social network Introduction: Hock: how t communicate with people nowadays. Background information: social networking and how it effects the world and what is social networking Thesis statement: How it changes the world and people’s life Main body: A. Body paragraph one: Topic sentence: introduction about social network B. Body paragraph two: Explaining stuff in the internet and talking about it and how to use it like: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Kik and Skype and many other programs. C. Body paragraph Three: Explaining what is the advantages and the disadvantages about the social networking and how it effects the people and the world and our lifes. D. Body paragraph Four: My opinion about social networking and the new technology. Conclusion: Social networking is about programs and meeting people and how you use it wither in a good way or a bad way and you should know what to use and which programs are useful and social networking is so good and helps people to learn new things and languages and meet new people. Social networking is a program in the internet helps people to communicate with each other easily just by chatting, and it also helps you to meet new people from other different countries, easy to learn and teach and you can also use it for free. “What is social networking? Kids probably do not even realize that they are “social networking” when they actually are. To them, they are just hanging out with friends using...
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...Computer Addiction Thesis statement Although some people say that using computers all time wouldn’t be harmful for them and it gives them more experience, overuse of computers has many bad effects such as physicals problems, affects family relations and academic study. I. Abstract Computer addiction is a very harmful to us. Although it is a new kind of addiction, it spreads all over the world and affects on all ages. Many people suffered from this problem because it effected negatively on them. It has stolen many important things from them such as health, family and time to study. I think that something must be done to those who overuse computers and internet. For example, they should try hard to stay less time on the internet. Also, they should join some centers that could help them to get red of this problem. II. Terms of Reference This research was written as part of the coursework for Visa 4 at Zayed University. It gives the reader information about the bad effects of overusing computers and internet. The information was obtained from books, the internet and databases. The research will show the problems that caused by overusing and internet and how it can effects negatively on health, family relation and academic study. III. Introduction Computer has become an important machines in our life. It plays a vital role in all fields of the life. When we add the internet to this small machine it becomes a big world that...
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...Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES The purpose of this literature review is to identify and review research which supports the view of social media that affect the study habits of Grade 6 pupils. Social Media Social media has become a growing phenomenon with many and varied definitions in public and academic use. Social media generally refer to media used to enable social interaction. For our purposes, the term social media technology (SMT) refers to web-based and mobile applications that allow individuals and organizations to create, engage, and share new user-generated or existing content, in digital environments through multi-way communication. It is important to note the difference between user-generated content, which is non-traditional media developed and produced by individual users, and existing content, which is usually traditional media (news, magazines, radio, and television) reproduced for the web. In addition to these features, SMT also contains design elements that create virtual social spaces encouraging interaction, thereby broadening the appeal of the technology and promoting transitions back and forth from the platform to face-to-face engagement. The use of social media interfaces through computer and mobile devices has become quite widespread, and currently, the two most prominent interfaces are Facebook and Twitter. Facebook allows users to create profiles; allows those user-operated profiles to interact with each other; allows for the...
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...THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING AND READING HABIT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATES EKWERIKE ONYEDIKA 090651012 LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, OJO (JULY, 2012) ABSTRACT This paper discusses in details the Research proposal on the influence of social networking and reading habits among university undergraduates. In particular the research will focus on the question “does social networking and reading habits affects the academic performance of university undergraduates? If it does is the influence positive or negative? In this research proposal, the background, context, and theme of the study are presented: the objectives of the research and research statements are also stated. The scope and methodology to be used are also discussed and this paper also briefly reviews relevant and related literature. CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY “Academic performance” is not a concept that is new, many social scientist and researchers alike have defined academic performance in various ways. Bruce Tuckman (1975) asserts that performance is used to label the observable manifestations of knowledge, skill, concepts, and understanding and idea. So performance is the application of a learning product that at the end of the process provides mastery. It is the acquisition of particular grades on examination; it shows or indicates the students’ ability, mastery of content, skills in applying learned knowledge to a particular situation. A student is generally judged on examination performance...
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...Jasmine Johnson The Advantages and disadvantages of using the internet Attention Getter: USA population is more than three hundred fifth teen Million, out of 315 million more than 200 million are using the internet. That’s more than half of the population Purpose: To inform my audience on the advantages and disadvantages of the internet. Thesis statement: Although internet may cause many distractions (chaos should I say) the internet is important we rely on it as a resource in our everyday lives Preview: I will discuss the major reasons internet is so important and the soggy side effects it has on us (Too start off I would like to talk about the light side of internet) First main point: the capabilities of the internet is what keeps us addicted without even knowing A. Subpoint: One and foremost internet provides us with an easy pass of communication 1. Now a days social networking plays a big part in society, Networks such as ( Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube etc.) it’s like an addiction and that wouldn’t be so if there weren’t any internet access 2. It’s a great way to say in contact with distant family members, old friends , meeting potential lovers, and sharing all kinds of crazy pictures and videos Ex: your friend goes to Miami shares pictures online and has you excited and ready to get everything together for next year summers trip. Not only is communication an important factor but... B. Subpoint: The internet has become...
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