Post Tagged with: "Socializing"

Facebook and Communication
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Facebook and Communication

The days of face-to-face communications seem to have gone by after Facebook changed the way people interacted. Social networking sites have handed or created innumerable ways for people to communicate with each other. Even though it is easy to use Facebook, it enables an informal, unnatural and grammatically incorrect way of communicating. Or what I call [...]

Published by on May 9, 2012 9:03 PM
Real Friends vs Facebook Friends
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Real Friends vs Facebook Friends

Today if I ask you to avoid Facebook, your immediate reaction could be two questions. 1. How would I keep in touch with friends? 2. What do I do with my free time if I don’t use Facebook? In this article, I will try to answer both these questions for you. You must understand that [...]

Published by on April 8, 2012 10:25 PM
Facebook Addiction
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Facebook Addiction

Are you one of those users who have Facebook as your home page and have configured your mobile phones and IPads to access Facebook at the click of a button? Do you spend more than 60% of your online time checking out Facebook notifications, videos and photos? If so, be careful. You may be unconsciously [...]

Published by on January 23, 2012 9:41 PM
Lecture: What has Facebook done to us?
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Lecture: What has Facebook done to us?

University College London’s Lunch Hour Lecture series starts again next week and one of our first lectures is on the effects of Facebook What has Facebook done to us? comprehensive research on the impact of Facebook on common population reveals very different consequences from those generally available in newspapers. It also express the future of [...]

Published by on January 14, 2012 6:41 PM
Facebook Friends List
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Facebook Friends List

Most of us have Facebook profiles and every day we see tones of articles on why Facebook is a big blessing to mankind. One of the most obvious measures of popularity has become the number of friends that you have on Facebook. And if you are a business who believes in social media marketing, then [...]

Published by on January 9, 2012 3:31 AM
Photos on Facebook
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Photos on Facebook

Most people join Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family. One of the biggest advantages of Facebook is that it helps you to get in touch with long lost friends. Unfortunately, in the process Facebook has also become the default photo and video sharing site for most of us. However, there are some [...]

Published by on December 1, 2011 4:38 AM
Fake Facebook Profile
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Fake Facebook Profile

Have you ever wondered if your “friend” at Facebook is real or is he or she using a disguised profile? A few days ago, I was reading an ebook on online dating, and the author gave tips on how to check out on your date by creating two or three fake profiles on Facebook. Well, [...]

Published by on November 23, 2011 4:20 AM
Predators on Facebook
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Predators on Facebook

Every parent would want that their children become a successful person in life, and for that they want them to not only study well but also spend their free time in healthy activities like, reading, playing sports or making good friends. But modern media and social networks site like Facebook are taking free time – [...]

Published by on November 6, 2011 4:46 AM
Facebook and Privacy
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Facebook and Privacy

Being connected and in touch with everyone you know through the many social networking sites like Facebook has its own advantages. In the excitement of getting in touch with all the people you know, you forget that there are malicious people out there who would love to malign your self morale just for the sake [...]

Published by on October 14, 2011 11:57 AM
Why Quit Facebook
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Why Quit Facebook

There are plenty of reasons why quitting the famous social networking site Facebook is good for you. Facebook claims to be a one stop site where you can conveniently get in touch with people you know around the world, friends from your school, college and other people you have met over a period of your [...]

Published by on October 10, 2011 4:07 AM
Facebook and Grades
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Facebook and Grades

A recent survey in a school in UK showed that Facebook has a negative effect on the education as well as concentration of students. Why this happens so? What impact does Facebook have on the performance of education? Is Facebook distracting the students from listening during the lecture hours? Social networking sites like Facebook have [...]

Published by on September 7, 2011 9:54 AM
Downsides to Facebook Networking
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Downsides to Facebook Networking

Your social network profile is your online identity. Without a doubt, you’ll try to put as much information as possible on your online social networking profile in order to be identified correctly by your friends and peers. Sadly, there is an off-putting characteristic of this feature as well as it can potentially lead you to [...]

Published by on September 1, 2011 11:33 AM
Addicted to Facebook? Break Away Strategy
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Addicted to Facebook? Break Away Strategy

Facebook is arguably number one social network site. Going by the recent statistics, Facebook is showing an estimated membership of over 600,000,000. Its popularity, however, has come with a price. Number of people getting addicted to it is rising at an alarming rate.  Ubiquity, instantaneousness, and prevalence of technology and especially the internet, has made [...]

Published by on May 27, 2011 6:59 PM
Nagatives of Facebook
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Nagatives of Facebook

There is hardly anyone left on this planet, who is not a regular user of internet and is unaware about social networks like,  Facebook,  and for those of you who are in practice of using any of these networks, you are not just using it, you are actually addicted to it. Caring about your relatives [...]

Published by on May 19, 2011 4:56 PM
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
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