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England Journal of Higher Education, winter of 2008 issue, Fleming poses the question of responsibility in monitoring students’ online social networking activities. With a growing population of students registering on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, she introduces the concern of safety by saying, “like lawmakers, college administrators have not yet determined how to handle the unique issues posed by the public display of their students’

Stacy’s situation is just one of many recent cases in which aspiring and practicing educators have faced unfortunate consequences because of the way others perceive the use of social networking tools such as MySpace and Face book. (Carter, Foulger & Ewbank, 2008). ” (www.pbworks.com, page 1) The above mentioned example is one of many questioning the credibility of the social networking sites. The fact that anyone can go to a person’s profile and save his/her

My earliest memory of posting content onto a social media website would be when I signed up for a Myspace account. I remember, I never really thought much about what I posted or who potentially could be ‘looking’ at the content I published onto my page. Which, is exactly why I feel lucky that I was never ‘targeted’ for essentially, exploiting myself to

Death by social media. Social media, for most of the world, was introduced with MySpace. Families could reconnect with those they had lost touch with over the years and really share their day to day lives with each other. As social media grew and continues to grow today, the world is reaping the benefits. With many websites and smart phone apps, it is an important communication tool used all over the world. However beneficial, social media is extremely flawed. The world is seeing a loss in productivity

can create isolation, cyber bullying, anxiety, and Internet addiction. While social media networks did not become prominent until the early 2010’s, the conception of social media networks can be traced back at early as 2003. Few people noticed when MySpace launched in Santa Monica, California, hundreds of miles from Silicon Valley.

Social media is any website that allows social interaction. Social media is growing rapidly throughout the world. More adults and teenagers are joining sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter to interact with friends, family, and strangers. The introduction of social media has changed the world in many ways. It affects each individual in different ways. Today it can be used as a very helpful tool in changing a person’s life, but at the same time cause such conflicts which can negatively impact

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES AND LITERATURE Local Related Literature Social networks gave a big help to everyone, especially among the students businessman and other members of the society. Social networks has different features that may enjoy by the people all around the world, what the problem is, people loses their self-control in using them. Facebook is the most popular social networking site today wherein people may share and upload videos, pictures, messages

Social media is doing more harm than good. 76% of Americans use social media like Facebook and Twitter. Social media promotes their sites by staying in contact with friends and family and using the sites to find valuable information, but this prevents face to face contact with other people and can causes a waste time when you are suppose to be doing homework. After reading numerous studies, articles and magazines I can conclude that social media has drastically changed the way people interact with

6-7). Oakes writes that on the corner of RPS in Oakland, “two dreadlocked African American teenage boys in basketball jerseys try to hype the crow and sell a mix CD they’ve made of “authentic Oakland hip-hop” (page 4). Oaks also mentions that on MySpace, indie bands could communicate directly with club bookers to play at events (page 16). In all these cases, the side effect of the personal interaction between indie artists and indie consumers allowed the artists to stay independent of retail advertising

Cyberbullying, intentional aggression through means of digital technology, is slowly becoming recognized as a social problem that needs to be addressed. This new form of bullying, emerged with the information and communication revolution during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Cyberbullying occurs largely through communication devices; cyberbullies harass their victims “by sending photos, text messages, e-mail, instant messages, and video through cell phones, personal digital assistants