...I think the article “is Facebook making us lonely?” is a well written article. Stephen starts off with an example of a woman dying and connects it to the social network because her computer was left on. I think him starting off with this was a good choice as it captured the mind of his readers, pushing us to read more. Also this article had all the right references which show that the writer did his research before putting it out there. He explains Facebook gives us the sense of actually having enough bonds on the internet making that an excuse not to make them in real life. He explained what Facebook actually does to people. It weakens their bonds physically. He says that “crowded parties can be agony” which I think is a deep statement. This tells us that sometimes we just need time to ourselves away from people. I also think Stephen was all over the place in this article. Yes, he quotes famous researchers. He explains what they actually mean, but he doesn’t explain what he thinks until the very end. He thinks that Facebook is not making us lonely. Stephen also repeats some phrases. For example he says loneliness and being alone isn’t the same thing more than once in his article, making it lose its effect on the readers. Of course the word lonely had to come up a lot in this article, because that’s what the article is all about. I think Stephen Marche did all this to capture our minds, to make us read to the end. We all wanted to know what the answer to the title of this...
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...Project Group: LE THI THU HIEN LE THI NGOC YEN TRUONG TU QUYNH NGUYEN HONG CAM BINH Summer 2012 An overview Facebook was realized on February 4, 2004 by an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur- Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. Facebook has said it will be valued at up to $96bn (£59bn) when it sells shares to investors this month in a record-breaking flotation. The first investment from Peter Thiel was $500,000 into Facebook. Facebook has minted four billionaires: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker. The 27-year-old Zuckerberg's net worth was estimated at $17.5bn on the 2011 Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans. Moskovitz had a net worth of $3.5bn but pipped Zuckerberg for the title of world's youngest billionaire, being eight days younger. The Brazilian-born Saverin, who left Facebook early on after a falling-out with Zuckerberg, had a net worth of $2bn. Parker, the Napster co-founder who briefly served as Facebook's president, had a net worth of $2.1bn On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced it had acquired the domain name fb.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation for an undisclosed amount. On January 11, 2011, the Farm Bureau disclosed $8.5 million in "domain sales income", making the acquisition of FB.com one of the ten highest domain sales in history Nowadays, 1 in every 13 people on earth uses Facebook, more than 900m active users, with over 250 million of them who log in every day. The average user has about 130 friends...
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...the Relationship of Facebook Usage and Loneliness Research Proposal (it was NOT conducted) Abstract The popularity of Facebook among internet users has increased, yet at the same time people start noticing the negative life influence that Facebook brings to its users. The present study furthers our understanding in how the use of Facebook affects one’s feeling of loneliness among fresh graduates who are experiencing life changing events. We look at the number of Facebook friends users have, the amount of time they spend on Facebook, the number of status posted, the number of post liked by others, and the number of pieces of personal information they share. We expect to see a strong correlation between general Facebook use and users’ sense of loneliness. However, the number of like received from others might not have a direct relationship with users’ loneliness. Result of our study could be applied to the educational field, where both teachers and students could benefit. Introduction As social media is getting more popular, Facebook is one of the few social networking sites that have generated great attention. It provides people a platform for communication and a wide range of functions, such as posting status reflecting their daily lives, liking other’s status or photo by clicking the thumb, and to share users’ personal data with others. According to the Statistics Portal (2014), Facebook is the world's leading social networking websites with 1,280 million...
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...On Line Social Networking The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and examine the social network of Facebook and the effects it has on society. As a society Facebook has brought us together and torn us apart at the same time. Facebook is on line network that was launched by Mark Zucjerburg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Savearn, and Chris Hughes all were students at Harvard University. It was launched in February 2004. Facebook is a medium for communication. A user creates a profile. With this profile the user can add a photo, a list of personal information, contact information, personal interest, and personal information. A user can use Facebook to commutate with friend, family, coworkers, and classmates. A user can commutate through both public and private messages. The user can chat on line, post family and friend’s photos, and post events. According to Social Media Today in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the United States population had a facebook account. In July 2011 facebook had more than 750 million active users. With the use of the Internet and social networking people have found no need to communicate with others in person as they once did. People become accustomed to communicating over e-mail, IMs, and wall postings. We can lose basic manners and social skills. People are also always connected to their virtual community, so they will think there is no need to talk to or meet new people. Think of waiting at the doctor’s office. 10 years...
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...Kristyna Pavlickova WR 098 Professor Finlayson 04/05/2012 Is internet really making us better off? Comparing Diana Schaub’s “Unfriending Friendship” and Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nowadays it can be considered a general fact that the internet helps people in various ways, not only at work, but also in their personal lives. Most people see the internet and social networks as an enormous asset to their everyday life. However, according to Diana Schaub in her essay, “Unfriending friendship,” and Nicholas Carr in his essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” the internet and social media also causes negative effects on our everyday life. Even though these two essays, both written around the year 2010, have different topics and there are certainly differences in the authors’ writing styles, they still have some similarities. These two essays share a similar theme: that the internet and social media diminish our human capabilities to think and make friends. Some differences occur in how Carr and Schaub approach their readers’, one author uses personal examples and the other shows differences in word meanings. In Carr’s article, he includes his own examples to show readers how the internet has changed his capability of reading longer texts; now his attention span has greatly decreased because he is used to short style of text on the internet. At the beginning of Carr’s essay there is a short part of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oddyssey which Carr uses to...
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...Eng112:On-line Does Social Media/Networking Contribute To Our National Obesity Problem? The creation of the Internet has caused an explosion of new technologies, especially in the last ten years. Social Networking has become more than a way to communicate with others and has crossed the line into an addiction for some people. In my opinion, our culture is being impacted in a harmful way with the amount of time people spend using social networking sites and the internet, it appears to be a factor in the rising obesity problem our nation is experiencing. According to the YouTube video, Oct 23, 2011, , “The Social Media Revolution 2013”, Americans are spending over 15 hours a week or more in some cases, on-line using social networking sites to communicate with family, friends, and acquaintances. This reduces the time we are spending exercising and engaging in physical activities for physical health. We are becoming a society of overweight couch potatoes who spend too much time on-line while healthy lifestyle habits fall by the wayside. However, there are positive impacts on our culture because of the invention of the internet and social media; we are able to keep in contact with those we want to interact with around the clock, any time of day or night. We share music, videos, and pictures with all of our friends through social networking sites and we can post comments and information on our friends’ pages with ease. We can log onto sites that show us creative ways to do...
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...The Social Media Effect by Aryn LipNicki (link: http://arynlipnicki.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-social-media-effect) Personal Satisfaction - the largest negative effect of social media is the fact that studies have shown that Facebook actually makes us less satisfied with our own lives. The cause for this seems to be that we have a tendency to share only positive things in our life on social media, but not the negatives. As a result, we present a utopian picture of our lives to the outside world, despite what the reality may be. I don’t think it is always a conscious decision to do this, we just simply choose not to share the more challenging aspects of our lives with the world at large, often saving that for those closest to us. This is completely understandable, but from the receiving side of things, we are only seeing great things happening in our peers’ lives. Then also consider the increased magnitude of people from whom we see regular updates, compared to in the past. There is a big difference between hearing the good news from your dozen close friends, and hearing about all of the positive things that happen in the lives of your 140 Facebook friends. Suddenly we are constantly being bombarded with updates as people get engaged, married, have kids, buy houses, get job promotions, take amazing vacations – it can all be a bit overwhelming. My takeaway from all this: realistically this isn’t something that is going to change, but try to keep in mind the effect as you use...
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...Is Connectivity A Human Right? For almost ten years, Facebook has been on a mission to make the world more open and connected. For us, that means the entire world — not just the richest, most developed countries. We’ve made good progress, and today we connect more than billion people through Facebook each month. But as we started thinking about connecting the next 5 billion people, we realized something important: the vast majority of people in the world don’t have any access to the internet. Below, I’ll discuss the state of the internet today, why connectivity is such an important problem for the world, the major issues we’ll need to solve — technical, social and economic — and then I’ll outline a rough plan to accomplish this goal. I’m focused on this because I believe it is one of the greatest challenges of our generation. The unfair economic reality is that those already on Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined, so it may not actually be profitable for us to serve the next few billion people for a very long time, if ever. But we believe everyone deserves to be connected. The state of the internet Today, only billion people — a little more than one third of the world’s population — have internet access. Even more surprising, internet adoption is growing by less than 9% each year, which is slow considering how early we are in its development and that it is expected to slow further. There are more than 5 billion mobile phones in the world, with...
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...Does the internet make you smarter or dumber? There is a complex debate over the internet and whether it is making society smarter or dumber for that matter. The debate focuses on the internet and the intellectuality of individuals and if the internet hinders or is progressing society as a whole. Some critics argue that the internet contributes to the decline of our mental state. On the other hand, others argue the internet promotes and encourages literacy. Is the collective intelligence gained by accessing and using the internet and social media making us a more intellectual society? The answer is found in many skewed viewpoints and opinions. In Nicholas Carr's article in the Wall Street Journal, "does the internet make you dumber", he makes numerous rhetorical appeals to Ethos to establish credibility or the "trust me" appeal. The Ethos appeal of this article produces an appeal towards the author by providing information the author is credible and knowledgeable. Mr. Carr identifies scientific studies suggesting this in not only his opinion, but statistically proven by evidence collected. Mr. Carr also relates to the Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist, Eric Kandel as well as Roman Philosopher Seneca. He also refers to the Cornell study and Stanford study which applies to Ethos as well as Logos. Additionally, Nicholas Carr uses rhetorical appeals to Logos or reason by referring in his article the internet to being "shallow". Mr. Carr uses this sense of reason...
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...Reflective Writing (300 words or less) (Turn in one as the cover page to EVERY FINAL writing assignment— not necessary for rough drafts) Your Name: _______Chloe Mballa_____________________________________ Assignment Name: ________Life as Evidence________________________________ 1. What were some of the most important comments made on your last paper or writing assignment, which you attempted to improve or correct here? Instead of chopping off sentences, in order to make the sentences and transitions flow better, I should try to connect ideas. I should bring in the counterarguments in the paragraph itself in order to seem less biased towards the topic. . I should try to be more specific when I globalized my argument. 2. What was especially challenging about the assignment? When you talk about your own life experience, you tend to ramble or repeat the same stuff you already said. This was especially challenging for me because I had to figure out what to include and what not to while still making my point. 3. What did you think was successful about your writing (what did you do well)? I attempted to try to relate the evidence from life to teach my lesson. I also attempted to globalize my argument and be more specific about it. 4. What would you like me to notice and comment on? I would like you to comment on my repetitiveness. Sometimes, I felt that it was too repetitive. Chloe Mballa Professor Fiore ENG100 Section 22 8 December 2014...
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...Project Proposal Thesis: Social media connects the world and empowers us to make better decisions about our lives, however the interactions with our phones, documenting rather than experiencing, and the increasing reduction of face-to-face interactions is ultimately leading the global social society down an anti-social path. Issue Summary The belief that social media is making people anti-social is becoming a popular discussion. How else can we explain the trends we are starting to see as a society when entering any and all public environments? When you go into public these days people are no longer as approachable as they may have once been. People are starting to look at casual conversation with distraught. It is becoming more common to find individuals who are willing to talk online rather than in person these days. The previous definition of the classroom, marketplace, coffeehouse and nightclub are now being shaped and hosted by the internet. Rather than being in these classic social environments people are inclined to be updated and involved socially online even when in social settings provided the recent years of mobile improvement and service. Even scenarios that seem less socially weighted such as phone calls are now being considered awkward and weird. A quick phone call just to say hi or to catch up is looked at with extreme distraught causing people to think: “Why didn’t you just text me instead?” People are now missing out on social opportunities that are standing...
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...com/locate/ijhcs Cultural differences, experience with social networks and the nature of ‘‘true commitment’’ in Facebook Asimina Vasaloua,n, Adam N. Joinsona, Delphine Courvoisierb a School of Management, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK Geneva University Hospitals 6, rue Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland b Received 9 January 2009; received in revised form 3 March 2010; accepted 2 June 2010 Communicated by S. Wiedenbeck Available online 9 June 2010 Abstract Formed on an analysis of design practices, the behaviour chain model stipulates that social network designer’s ultimate aim is to encourage users to adopt the social network site by entering a phase of true commitment. During this phase, social network users are driven to connect to known or unknown others by engaging in instrumental uses that create value and content and involve others, while staying active and loyal by investing time in the site. This paper investigates how designer’s intentions, as captured by the behaviour chain model, materialise through users’ reported practices in the social network site Facebook. A total of 423 Facebook users from 5 countries answered a questionnaire that allowed us to examine how 2 user characteristics, experience with the site, and culture, shape the nature of true commitment. Our findings show that experience with the site and even more so, culture, have an effect on users’ motivations for using Facebook, as well as their instrumental uses and the time...
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...Analysis: Facebook, Inc. Merlinda C. Lucas MBA6008 Global Economic Environment Instructor: Lester Hadsell Abstract The Coffee Crisis case study illustrates how the decline in coffee consumption and the rise of coffee production was addressed by the governments of coffee producing countries in 2004. The coffee market was identified, defined and explained in the context of both international nature and structure. The new entrants into the coffee market were identified and examined. A supply and demand analysis was conducted to address what the shift factors were and what were some of the changes in consumer behavior. It was concluded some of the remedies presented by the International Coffee Organization, Inter-American Development Bank and Oxfam were incorporated to help elevate some of the issues presented and analyzed. Facebook, Inc. is the world’s leading social networking company. It became a public traded company on May 18, 2012, filing a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO), “making it one of the biggest in tech history and the biggest in Internet history” (Tangel, Hamilton, 2012). Facebook is social networking service, established in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, that builds products to create utility for users, developers, and advertisers. Users (people) use Facebook to stay connected and share and express what matters to them with their friends, family, and community through their user profiles. Developers use the Facebook Platform...
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...I have chosen to focus and compare the Apple and Facebook website. Apples high tech look gives you a great insight on the latest and updated apple product as well as specs. Each product gives you a better understanding of what, you possibly could be purchasing. Top quality pictures and videos give you an experience of the products. The purpose of the Apple Store which is an e-commerce is to sell top quality gadgets such as smart watches and high tech mobile phones. The website is carefully optimized to achieve a high percentage of purchases. These are the features of the Apple website: Navigation bar Rollovers have been used on this webpage rolling the mouse cursor over the button causing the button to react sometimes resulting in a change in the web page itself. Apple uses many buttons links to move from one page to another a search box is used for locating product’s fast and effectively. Menus are very simple you are able to click on the Apple logo returning you back to the homepage. Layout The website structure of the website has a very simple design. The layout is consistent on every page making visitors spend less time trying to navigate the important things. Apple logo The logo is there to identify the website. It can also be used to return back to the home page. The logo is also interactive as you can click on it to get back to the homepage they are graphical displays of apples unique identity through colours. Design The visual design such as the professional...
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...harass other people, in a deliberate, repeated and hostile manner. Nearly 43% of all the youth have been bullied online. 1 in 4 has had it happen more than once, which tells us that we have to do something about the problem. If kids can’t have fun on the Internet without people are making fun of them – that’s a problem. Some kids might even bully other kids so they can avoid being bullied themselves. Everyone knows what bullying means and most have had experiences with it. Either they have been bullies themselves, they have been victims of bullying, or they known someone who has been bullied. With the Internet bullying can be taken to the next level. It is now much harder to avoid the bullies because they can reach you everywhere. The Internet has also given the bullies an extra distance to their victims, which makes them capable of increasing the severity of their threats and negative messages, making it even harder to be the victim, and that’s why more than 65% of the older students thinks that cyberbullying is a big problem, because they have experienced it themselves and can give some advices to the next generation. Another thing why this problem is so “popular” might be because of the young people are using their cell phones nonstop – and over 80% of the teens uses a cell phone regularly, making it the most common medium of cyberbullying. In article 1 several solutions to the problem are given. All the suggestions that are given, is about what you could do as a parent...
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