Archive for April, 2011

Facebook Effects on Society
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Facebook Effects on Society

Often people proudly boast about the number of friends they have on Facebook. It is said that an average Facebook user has over 175 friends and the number simply increases if the user is a teenager or a user with a beautiful profile!!! Teenagers and young adults get glued to their Facebook account. More often [...]

Published by on April 28, 2011 7:52 PM
Facebook Problems
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Facebook Problems

Facebook Problems in Random Order. 1) The urge to respond to Facebook messages is becoming a real concern for all of us. Introduction of smart phone with built in features is distraction for drivers. We have blue tooth for hands free talking. We should not be responding to a Facebook message behind the wheels. 2) [...]

Published by on April 21, 2011 4:28 PM
Shannon Johnson on Facebook while Son Drowned
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Shannon Johnson on Facebook while Son Drowned

Shannon Johnson, Weld County, Colorado was sentenced to 10 years for negligence. She let her baby drown in a bathtub while she was on Facebook.  All indications are pointing to her “Facebook Addiction” which caused the mother to be negligent and careless while her son was in bathtub. Johnson told the officers that baby Joseph [...]

Published by on April 16, 2011 12:17 AM
Facebook does not “help you connect or share” with anyone!
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Facebook does not “help you connect or share” with anyone!

I recently wrote a paper on why facebook is problematic from a postmodern theoretical perspective. Without burdening you with a lot of jargon, I wanted interested people like you to be able to read about why, through this perspective, facebook causes a lot of confusion in people’s lives. Many of these issues have been expressed [...]

Published by on April 13, 2011 1:09 PM
Teenagers Depression or Facebook Depression
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Teenagers Depression or Facebook Depression

Can too much Facebook use cause depression? Yes. In 2010, there was an estimated 239 million internet users in the United States alone, a 151.6% increase since 2000, making up nearly 78% of the entire population. Seventy-percent of all internet users are active on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. According to [...]

Published by on April 9, 2011 7:46 AM
Facebook and Studying
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Facebook and Studying

Low Grades and Facebook: Socializing Affects Studying Recent studies show, conducted by the Ohio State University, that while Facebook does create bond, cement friendship, and foster a sense of community, wherein peers can easily comment or react to a post with just a click of a button, or that thumbs-up like sign, college students who [...]

Published by on April 5, 2011 8:42 PM
Facebook and technology
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Facebook and technology

My principal concern with Facebook has always been its relatively poor coding. For its ambitions and all it wants to be, it has decided not make sure its platform is rock solid stable, taking a rather cavalier attitude with people’s very personal information. Whether it’s message searching on the fritz, chat windows crashing, some 3rd [...]

Published by on April 5, 2011 5:41 AM