FACEBOOKName: Khadija Yousuf AlkhamisID:200706205Course: COL 270Instructor : Zelal Wattar

Content:

•Definition of Social Network •Examples•Introduce :Facebook•Facebook facts•Four Facebook features •Who is using it and why?•The Positive and Negative impacts.•Symptoms of Facebook addiction.•How to handle Facebook addiction.•Short quiz to check your understanding•Bibliography

Social Networks:Services that ink people with similar interests and provides a means for them to interact over the internet via email, instant messaging , and blog-like posts.

Examples :• Twitter, Blogger, Flicker, Linked, Facebook..etc

Facebook:• Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect

friends, family and business associates. It is the largest of the networking sites, with the runner up being MySpace. It began as a college networking website and has expanded o include anyone and everyone.

Facebook facts:• More than 400 million active users• More than 200 million log in everyday• Average user has 130 friends on facebook• Average user spends > 33 mintutes per day on facebook• Average user belongs to 13 facebook groups

Four Facebook features:• Friending• Posting on walls• Groups• Application

Who uses it and why?• Everyone uses facebook• 800 + million users worldwide• 29% million users in UK• 44% mobile users worldwide• 58% users are female• Female age 18 – 30

• Why?1- Need to belong2-Need for self-presentation

Positive impacts:• Retention potential• Niche relationships • Self- discovery• Professional connections

Negative impacts:• Facebook addition• Appropriate online presentation of self• Self esteem issues• Misleading self representation• Libel and copyright questions• Privacy blow up• Less social interaction• Bad health• Reduce the time of study• Possibility of conflict• Less family concern

Symptoms of Facebook addiction:• Users and their siblings communicate through Facebook , though they

in the same house.• Users check Facebook for updates every hour at their workstation or on

their cell phone.• Users wake up in the morning, and log onto their Facebook account

first.• Users’ Facebook wall is full of status updates, comments, and

applications that they just used.• Users give priority to Facebook over their commitments in professional

and personal life.• Users can not stop thinking about Facebook updates and comments

when they are offline.• Users look forward to get home in the evening so that they can see

what is happening in Facebook.• Users can not go for a day without using Facebook.• Users’ day ends with checking Facebook for that one last time bidding

people 'good night' through their Facebook status update.

How to handle Facebook addiction?• Reduce Facebook tracking• Consider other alternatives• Meet up with your friends• Activate Facebook blocking applications• Use self help CDs• Share you thoughts• Buy a mobile phone with no internet capabilities

Quiz: • Some examples of social network?

• Facebook, twitter, myspace• Goolge, yahoo, Wikipedia • Power point, Word, Excel

• What is Facebook?

• University website• Social network• Search engine

• Is (Friending, posting on walls, groups and application) not facebook features?

• True• false

• Who uses facebook?

• 0 to 5• 10 to 16• 18 and above

Bibliography: Vijayanths (2011), the positive and negative impacts of facebook. Retrieved from http://webupon.com/social-networks/the-positive-and-negative-impacts-of-facebook/Emil Protalinski (2012), why do people use facebook? . Retrieved from http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/why-do-people-use-facebook-study/7453Alicia Eier (2012), study:why do people use facebook? Retrieved from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study_why_do_people_use_facebook.phpWikipedia (2012), Facebook. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FacebookPaul kiser (2011), who uses facebook, twitter, linkedln & nyspace?. Retrieved from http://socialmediatoday.com/paulkiser/285851/who-uses-facebook-twitter-linkedin-myspace-4thq-1stq-stats-and-analysis Josie Myers (2012), what is facebok?. Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-facebook.htmArabitrage (2010), who uses facebook and twitter : an infographic. Retrieved from http://www.arbitragemagazine.com/topics/facebook-twitter-infographic/Jon Lockton (2011), the social impact of facebook in 2011. Retrieved from http://www.thehalsreport.com/2011/01/the-social-impact-of-facebook-in-2011/Socialtimes (2010), what can psychology tell us about why people go to facebook?. Retrieved from http://socialtimes.com/what-can-psychology-tell-us-about-why-people-go-to-facebook_b27531hrus (2012), negative effevts of facebook addiction. Retrieved from http://thurs.hubpages.com/hub/Negative-Effects-of-Facebook-Addiction

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