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SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

SumraHassam Ali

Saqiba Rubab

Saba

Fahad Shakir

SherazQasim Ali

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WHAT IS SOCIAL NETWORKING ?

TOP 3 SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

Social Networking Sites

Facebook

Facebook is an online Social networking whose name stems from the colloquial name for the given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. It was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zukerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students .


Twitter• Twitter is an online social networking service and micro

blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".

• Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched.


YouTube• YouTube is a Video Sharing website, created by three

former Paypal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.

HISTORYBy Shiraz Ahmed

• social network computer-mediated communication were made in many early online services, including Usenet, ARPANET, LISTSERV and bulletin board services (BBS).

• The early social networking on the World Wide Web began in the form of generalized online communities such as Theglobe.com (1995), Geo cites (1994) and Tripod.com (1995).

MAIN PURPOSE

• The main purpose of these early communities was to focus on bringing people together to interact with each other through chat rooms and encouraged users to share personal information and ideas via personal webpages by providing easy to use publishing tools and free or inexpensive web space. The class mates communicate via email addresses.

USER PROFILE

• The user profile became a central feature of social networking sites in the late 1990’s.It allows users to compile a list of “Friends” and search for other users with similar interests.

• New social networking methods were developed by the end of 1990s.At this time, many sites began to develop more advanced features for the users to find and manage the friends.

• The newer generation of social networking began to flourish with the emergence of SixDegree.com in 1997 followed by Make out club in 2000, Hub Culture and Friendster in 2002 and soon became part of the internet mainstream.

PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING

• The social networking sites have risen in popularity over the past few years. The people have been spending a lot of time on the internet in general but much more on the social networking sites in specific. This point is much interesting that all age of people use social networking.

• This has led researchers to debate the establishment of internet addiction as an actual clinical disorder. The social networking can also affect the extent to which a person feels lonely.

• Johanna Corn blatt explains in a Newsweek article that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace may provide people with a false sense of connection that ultimately increases loneliness in people who feel alone.

POSITIVE EFFECTSBY SAQIBA,SUMRA,RUBAB

BETTER INFORMATIONThe children and teenagers who are not allowed to go out and research and collect more refine information and data for their studies, presentations, assignments etc

INTERACTIVE INVOLVEMENT

Social sites has able us to know about the activities taking place around us surrounding

IMPROVED WORLD AWARENESS• Politics, social problems, population,

health, and the economy are things that the thinker public lacks interest in. But because of social networking, they have no choice but to face the world‘s problems and share their opinions

FRIENDSNow we are friendlier with each other and the sense of have any kind of hesitation even with our own friends is removed and we came closer to each other through social networking sites.


Empathy• Sharing of feelings• Understandability• Speedy communication:• Offering chance for speedy communication


Building Relationships• Can find friends more than before• Can make relations for some benefits


Finding Common Ground in an Open Society

• Making connections with like-minded people• Finding people they share interests

IN TOUCH WITH THE WORLD

• Social networking sites allow you to communicate easily and effectively

• Family living abroad can be kept attach and aware of the latest happenings in our world as quickly as those liing next door

FUNCTIONS Easy & Effective Communication

(eBlogs) Shortening Of Distances ( Electronic

Information in Hand) Source of E-Business ( ads on social

Networking Sites)

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SCIENCE

Use in the Science Communities ( sharing of Research)

Julia Porter (Director of Consumer Revenues at Guardian News & Media) Statement … !

Expansion in Scientific Views & Ideas

PROFESSIONAL USES WITHIN EDUCATION

The employment of a network keep in touch (previous co-workers,

affiliates and clients)Social capital

• Government Applications• Reduce Learning and Research Capabilities• Multitasking

Various sector Getting opinion Updating

Government Applications

NEGATIVE EFFECTSBecause our society is so much emerged in social media people mostly spend their time on these activities.


Reduced learning and research capabilities


Multitasking

Reduction in real human contact

• The more time the students spend on these social media sites, the less time they will spend socializing in person with others. . They will not be able to communicate and socialize effectively in person with others. The employers are getting more and more unsatisfied with the communication skills of the fresh graduates due to this reason.

Reduces command over language and creative writing skills

• Students mostly use slang words or shortened forms of words on social networking sites. They start relying on the computer grammar and spelling check features. When they are much involved in these social networking they usually lose their command over language and they usually fall in the problem of lack of confidence and besides losing their language skills they also become non-creative and their capabilities of innovation thinking become low.

Time wastage• The most use of social media causes the wastage of

time. Although this social media has very advantages but we can say that this has also many disadvantages. Students, while searching and studying online, get attracted to using social media sites and sometimes they forget why they are using internet they use unconsciously which leads to waste their time.

Low grades• In this modern age children are much aware of these

social media items from their childhood and they spend their most time in using these network which cause many disadvantages in their future life. They may also suffer some psychological problems when they get low grades I their academic activities Students get low grades in school due to lack of the desired information, lack of creative thinking and writing skills.

Loss of motivation in students:• When a person use these social networking they

think that it is their life in enjoying the social networking while in real sense it is not so. The just rely on some theoretical working and when they come out in their practical life they are less effected than a person who is mare practical worker this reduces the motivation of those students.

Effect on health:

• The excessive use of these sites affects the mental as well as physical health. When people use these social networking they adjacent to it unconsciously. Health can be maintained by proper food and proper sleeping but unfortunately students do not care for their health and in the result they got addicted in many psychological disorders and in this sense students do not take their meals on time and take proper rest. They take excessive amount of coffee or tea to remain active and focused which effects negatively on their health.

Curriculum uses within education skills needed for a successful career exchange assignments and projects teaches responsibility students learn better encourages and team work fosters communicative skills habit of critical thinking updated about their schools news

Curriculum uses within education• teachers huddle professionally• develop a solid life-long learning policy• a great space for sharing• It exposes teachers to the possibilities offered by web to

technologies

Business model • Personality for Your Business• Reward Customers With Discounts• Connect With Other Businesses• Build Relationships That Will Last• Your Next Potential Customer

Business model

• Sell Products Through Social Media• Effective Than Traditional Marketing• Reduced cost.• Increased revenue.

QUESTIONARIES' AND THEIR RESULTS

BY HASSAM ALI

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CONCLUSION

Education

Social Sites