...New Narcissism A cultural phenomenon of our time 1. Introduce the subject of “New Narcissism” by giving a brief account of the phenomenon as it is described in text 1. Narcissism is the personality trait of selfishness. The first one ever to put a name on it was Sigmund Freud. He was inspired by the story about a handsome boy, Narcissus, who fell in love with his own mirror reflection. New narcissism is a modern version of the phenomenon narcissism, and today much of the youth are being narcissistic online on the internet. According to the article “Me, Me, Me” by Sarfraze Manzoor, new narcissism has come to life because society reproduces itself. People are more narcissistic than ever before and the number is increasing according to a study performed by psychologist. When Sigmund Freud put narcissism in relation to psychiatry, and made it recognized medical condition, it was a bad thing to be narcissistic, but the word narcissism does not seem that serious in our age. Nowadays people think of a narcissistic as a person, who is vain. The internet has a responsibility in the increasing amount of narcissism. The author gives an example of this, by telling the story about Chris Crocker, who became famous because of a video clip on the internet. In the clip he asks people to leave Britney Spears alone. He published the clip on the internet himself to get more attention. The article expresses that new narcissism is the offspring of today’s self-centred society, as the author...
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...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 student will ask his/her sit mate or he/she will ask the professor to explain it again. Practicing this kind of habit will have a big effect on the productivity of the students. B. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY This study will be conducted in Informatics Diliman, Quezon City. Social network is a distraction. The main idea of social networking is to socialize and it is time consuming. Because of...
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...in the Virtual Playground." Bits NameCalling in the Virtual Playground Comments. New York Times, 23 Mar. 2014. Web. 11 Dec. 2014. Apps that connect users anonymously and can hide the real people behind the computers are targets for cyberbullies. Last year nine suicides were linked to Ask.fm (anonymous social media site). These companies say that there is no real way that they can stop this from happening. Bullying is going to happen even if they do put in precautions and rules. Heath, Phillip. "Who's Responsible for Tackling Cyber Bullying?." The Age. 30 Jul. 2014: 20. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 11 Dec. 2014. Research showed students were more likely to seek help from parents or friends when they experienced online bullying. Younger students tended to rank their parents and teachers more highly as someone they would turn to. Older students favoured their friends. This doesn't mean that these kids actually would tell anyone if they were getting bullied. Most kids would keep it to themselves and ends up making the situation worse. Munn, Devan. "Cyberbullying Requires a Balanced Approach." Guelph Mercury. 21 May 2013: A.2. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 11 Dec. 2014. Cyberbullying is obviously a threat in teens today. Most of the efforts to stop it have been on legislation and bills, but often these don't...
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...interpersonal skills, alongside worsening our multi-tasking ability. There is still time to fix this and save the younger generation and ourselves. Getting rid of technology is not the answer, but knowing our limits and remaining focus on a single task can allow us to stay a bit more humanized. Many of us have heard of social networking sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. These sites are great means of expressing yourself or to portray a type of image, but there is point where people online cross the line. Constantly putting personal business out there for others to know can create hostile environment and even an unsafe one. People create an illusion, where constantly checking our social networks for notifications that are not there, and people statuses in which I have already scrolled by twice already. In the article Is Facebook Making Us Lonely, Stephen Marche says, “What’s truly staggering about Facebook usage is not it’s volume – 750 million photographs uploaded over a single weekend - but the constancy of the performance it demands. More than half it’s users – and one of every thirteen people on Earth is a Facebook user – log on everyday. Among...
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...the real world because there’s no “delete”. Sarfraz Manzoor uses Chris Crocker as an example of the phenomenon “new narcissism” and he’s a perfect example. The unknown Chris Crocker was on everyone’s lips after his Youtube-clip about Britney Spears. It was because of Britney Spears’ performance at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2007 Chris Crocker got famous. He was a big fan of Britney Spears and because of that he defended her. 2. Compare the views on narcissism presented in texts 2 and 3, and comment on how those views are substantiated. Text 2, “Students narcissism on the rise”, is written by Janice McDuffee. She thinks the college students of today are more narcissistic than the generation before. She substantiates her stance with studies made by Professor Jean Twenge. Jean Twenge has studied 16,475 students from 1982 to 2006. Her studies shows students have become more narcissistic. She also says students expect and demand too much from...
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...Sheila May V. Domingo BSBA-4L 07-01-15 Related Literature Impact of Social Networking Websites on Students Author: Shahzad Khan Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 5 No. 2 http://aupc.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/V5I2-5.pdf According to Charlene Li et al (2007) student activity on social networking sites focuses on communicating with each other. The most popular activities done by students and users on social networking sites revolve around looking at profiles of one another, searching for someone here and there, or updating one’s own profile, eavesdropping (sensing others activities on social networking websites and analyzing their posts). Media and content related activities like looking for an event, watching online videos, or listening to music and news. The ratios of these common activities which are almost practiced by almost every social networking websites user are calculated. Greenhow & Robelia (2009), Madge et al (2009) & Selwyn (2009) point of view social networking websites best serve educational goal and objectives by connecting students through such informal methods as it allows student through the process of collaborative sense making. Some of social networking websites are specifically specified for educational environment including linkedin.com which is fully featured for education purpose and let user to updates his educational credential and make a professional connections. In addition to the above statement Ellision et al (2007)...
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...Topic : Facebook 1~ Introduction 2~ The positive and negative sides 3~ How people use Facebook 4~ The reason why I choose it 5~ Conclusion 6~ References Introduction Facebook was created in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. The website was intended to be an online version of the University's printed Facebook, a directory of new students. At that time, membership to the website was limited to Harvard students only. In a month's time, Facebook grew to include other Ivy League students as well, and within a year had over 1 million users. By the end of 2005, Facebook expanded to include, first, a network of 800 colleges and universities, then high schools, and then international students. In time for the fall semester of 2006, Facebook began accepting membership of anyone over the age of 13. According to Facebook's press room , the social networking site currently has over 90 million active users. Facebook is a privately owned company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Mark Zuckerberg, age 24 and a Harvard drop-out, is ranked 785 in Forbes Magazine's list of the world's billionaires, with a net worth of approximately $1.5 billion. 2. The positive and negative sides: Although Facebook was created with the concept of allowing students and young adults to share their common interests, but with time it has lost its true essence. Started often as a time pass, it becomes an addiction which is annoying...
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...November 2012 Social Media Equals Dangers Every day, people are on social media like robots. It is as if the world never existed without it. Social media’s gain in popularity is both exciting and alarming. Facebook is the most popular social media today. “Facebook currently has 901 million active users worldwide.” (Curtan) People sit on sites like Facebook all day and interact with friends and strangers worldwide. Wilber said, “For many people that are stuck at home, for whatever reason, social media opens new doors. Due to the fact that there is a high unemployment rate, I find that there are so many people on different disability websites, and that's their way of connecting so they don't feel isolated." (Curtan) In real life though, these same people are not socializing face-to-face. The human interactions are not there. According to Dr. Aric Sigman, a psychologist and biologist, “Social networking websites like Facebook pose a serious risk to your health.” (NaturalBias.com) In addition, some people use Facebook responsibly, and others do not. Many people neglect their real life for one full of virtual friends. Social media, Facebook in particular, is not only a great invention but also a dangerous invention. These social media friendships on sites like Facebook have two sides. There are people known personally and people not known personally. "I try to reach out to a lot of women in different countries — they might have Internet access but they don't have physical access...
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...Nick Barnes Robert Wilhite WRC 1023.032 November 10, 2009 The Future of Social Networks Who says that prophets are the only ones who can predict the future? With many technological advances, the Internet has become one of the most powerful tools in modern society. Perhaps one aspect of the Internet is social networks which are constantly growing. Social networks involve websites that allow an online community to share information, discover new contacts, and catch up with old friends and family under certain restrictions. With social networks being a prominent feature on the Internet, what will social networks be like in five years from now? The importance lies in whether humans are becoming more advance in communications or are social networks removing us from the living world—reality. Here we will take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of social networks to describe its condition in the future. Charlene Li is an influential leader and analyst on emerging technologies. She is the co-author of a business best-seller book Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies published by the Harvard Press in May 2008. She often blogs about her experiences online. In one of her blogs, “The Future of Social Networks: Social Networks Will Be Like Air,” she describes her position on the outlook of social networks: In the future, social networks will be like air. They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be. And also, without that...
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...Chapter 1 Title: The Influence of Social Networking to College student and its effect to their study habits. Introduction Social networking is a conversation. The important thing in social media is the real people who use it. It's all about the C's. Creative, Competition, Community, Communication. It is a online conversation, which is organic and complex. Social media influences people. But those influences may cause either good or bad especially to the most popular group of people who are influenced by it, the college students. Background Social Networking is relatively young, but its history is incredibly long. From AOL Instant Messenger to Friendster to Google+, social networks has probably changed more in ten years than most people’s living room furniture changes in a lifetime. We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site. What makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks. This can result in connections between individuals that would not otherwise be made, but that is often not the goal, and these meetings are...
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...most expensive among all media. Telephone has a powerful one on one capability but it is dangerous with prospects. Magazines can reach mass or class but has less space to tell a story. Newspapers have a wide variety of format but sometimes advertisements can be affected by a local condition. Television has a powerful demonstration capability but has limited copy time. Radio has a high frequency but has no visual appeal. And online which is popular nowadays can have a fast retort from the consumers but it has no permanent response device. Today, we see facebook users use facebook as a mean of advertising their product. It may be make ups, garments, bags or even foods. It is much easier to advertise through this social networking site. This idea won’t cost you even a single centavo and lots of people can see it. You just need to upload the picture or video of your merchandise and then tag it or post it directly to the page of your friends. But is online advertising effective? Reports have shown the ads to be both an effective and ineffective means for businesses to target their advertising dollars (http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2771-facebook-ads-effectiveness.html). Background of the Study Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and co-classmates, is a social networking website launched in February 2004. At first, facebook was only for the Harvard students, but later it expanded to other colleges. It affected the social life and activity of people...
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...Facebook. Something that started off within the walls of Harvard University in 2004 has been ruling the world for the past half decade. Newborn babies to near death grannies and even animals these days have a profile on this social networking site. This site has been so major that these days the first word that type into the World Wide Web is Facebook. 845 million users in just 8 years is a quite a record for any social networking site in the world. It has been so hyped up that to have a Facebook profile has become a basic need for certain group of people. A tool that is supposed to be used prudently has been used extensively by some individuals so much so that they have become addicted to it. In fact, psychologists in the United States of America came up with the term ‘Facebook Addiction Disorder’ (FAD) back in 2009 as they predicted this syndrome will take the world faster than it took for the site to become global. Well, their prediction has become true. This condition is considered to a serious mental illness these days, even worse since it’s caused by addiction that could be compared to the likes of drugs and cigarettes. Who would’ve thought that a social networking site could spell so much trouble? Based on the two articles, the key point to this disorder is due to the amount of time spent on this site. People tend to spend too much time on this site than actually do something about their lives. Those days when a working man gets his off day, he would be either having...
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...Social media post differences between genders Student Name Affiliate of the University Social media post differences between genders Part One: Effects of social media The use of sites of social network has become a worldwide phenomenon, and it has attracted a vast population of people from all corners of the world. Due to the effects of social media, several changes have occurred in the lives of the individuals who use the social media (Myers, 2011). The people who use social media come from different ages, education levels, and ages as well. Apart from day to day checking of emails, reading the newspapers and forums online, or following the tools of instant message, an extensive population now checks their social networks as well. On the social network, they follow the status changes to other people, update their status or look at the profiles of other people. It has been observed through studies that most of the people usually connect to the sites of social network at least once in a day, to have a look at their profile or to take part in various activities online (LaSalle, 2006). People usually use the sites of social network for distinct number of reasons. These reasons include allowing faster updating, ease of use, reflecting on daily life, supporting the informal learning processes as well as sharing and analyzing the information that continuously increase. Other reasons include the establishment and maintenance of the spontaneous social contacts and relationships...
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...you light a candle? Reach for a flashlight? Or would you run for your cell phone? Most of us would choose the last option, but without power, most cell phones become useless due to lack of service. Imagine, no connection to the world outside your house. No FaceBook, no Twitter, no Instagram or Pinterest. For most, including myself, that would be a nightmare. As much as it pains me to admit, I am an avid user of all of these social networks. It is interesting to think that there once was a time when writing letters, using only home phones or physically going to see a person were the only means of communication, a time that recent generation children will only learn about from reading history books, or hearing from their families. Today I am going to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of social networks. The good being origins and advantages, the bad being disadvantages and the ugly being the dangers of social networking. In today’s society, where technology is the driving force for almost everything, there is no escaping social networking. Whether it’s being told to follow someone on Twitter, taking a photo and uploading it to Instagram or finding out more information about a company through it’s FaceBook page, you can do almost anything with the help of social networking. We have all heard of these social networking outlets, but they were not the first in the business. According to an article A Brief History of Social Media, ‘the first social networking website...
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...English 1101 27 November 2013 Impacts of Social Networking: Good or Bad? In recent years, social networking has emerged as a new resource for people to connect socially. These social networking sites have made it possible for people, who share the same interest without boundaries, to connect by eliminating political, economic, and geographic borders. Society as a whole must come to realize that although social networking has many benefits as a new way to communicate, it can be exploited and will, in turn, have negative results. Users must be cognizant of the dangers and should be able to identify so that social networking is working effectively for them. Social networking sites group people together into specific groups much like a small community of people. They allow freedom to communicate with all types of people from around the world and with people of whom they normally would not interact. Social sites help friends and family stay in communication with each other via online updates regarding their lives, photo uploads, and video uploads. They have truly introduced a new world to people by allowing consistent and constant communication with one another. On the other hand, these sites detract from live social interactions and have caused people to spend large amounts of time misusing them. Therefore, society must more closely examine the benefits of social networking sites and gain an understanding of how to use these sites effectively. A recent study conducted...
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