Post Tagged with: "technology"

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 a Search Engine?
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Facebook a Search Engine?

We never heard of Facebook being a “Search Engine”. Today I can confirm that Facebook has the capability to index websites. At least they have been indexing our website all of this month. So here is the numbers we have been able to gather for December 2011. (Dec 16, 7:06 a.m.) “Facebook Robot” has been [...]

Published by on December 16, 2011 7:06 AM
Facebook Emails
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Facebook Emails

How many friends do you have? By this I do not mean the real offline friends you have. I meant your Virtual friends, FB friends. You are not alone. I have viewed profiles with hundreds and hundreds of friends. And with Facebook being one of the most-visited sites, and the reason for hours and hours [...]

Published by on December 15, 2011 1:23 PM
Facebook Negative Effects
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Facebook Negative Effects

Although social networking systems offer many advantages like meeting new people across the globe and finding old pals. Facebook is one of those popular social networks. But are these advanced technological forms of communicating with people hurting the social’s skills? The obvious drawback of Facebook is that your profile is openly available to all the [...]

Published by on October 21, 2011 4:24 AM
Child Addiction to Facebook
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Child Addiction to Facebook

The number of Facebook users is estimated to be over 800,000,000, making it the number one social networking site. Despite its popularity, Facebook is not without disturbing consequences.  Cases of Facebook addiction are surging. For instance, a study has indicated that 22% of women aged between 18 – 35 get up to check Facebook first [...]

Published by on October 16, 2011 5:05 AM
Facebook User Information
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Facebook User Information

We give away the majority of our private information to these sites, information like email address, our home address, age, and information about our hobbies etc. And almost all of this information can easily be accessed by our friends, all unknown people who are viewing our profiles and every person linked to that very network. [...]

Published by on September 30, 2011 3:47 AM
Facebook Addiction and its Impact on Your Life
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Facebook Addiction and its Impact on Your Life

The following symptoms are indications that one is addicted to Facebook. You can check these points to find whether you are addicted to Facebook or not. You and your siblings communicate with each other through Facebook, even when you stay together. You keep checking for updates every hour on your PC or mobile phone. The [...]

Published by on September 27, 2011 10:00 AM
Safety Concerns on Social Network
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Safety Concerns on Social Network

Psychologists believe, the credit for excitement of beginning new-fangled relationships over the Internet can be given to the ever increasing social network websites. On the other hand, in the eagerness to be converted into ‘social lifestyle’, we are most likely to pay no attention to a lot of safety issues hanging above social network websites. [...]

Published by on September 9, 2011 8:47 AM
Facebook right for your child?
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Facebook right for your child?

Now that everyone is pretty much glued to the social networking system, children are not falling behind in staying “connected” with their circle of friends. The Facebook frenzy has caught up with people from all age groups and has created a furore. When you meet someone after a long time the first question you ask [...]

Published by on September 2, 2011 12:30 PM
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
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 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