Category: Social Networking

Ferdinand Tonnies and Karl Marx believed collective human effort leads to producing new qualities in society, either non-physical or material. Tonnies advocated for a community that cultivates feelings of belonging, mutual dependence, and togetherness. Marx believed in the importance of collaborative human labor as it pertains to producing economic goods. Thus, social media is defined…

Table of Contents Summary Assessment Critical Thinking References Summary Nick Hajli and Xiaolin Lin wrote the article Exploring the security of information sharing on social networking sites, which focuses on how the social networking site (SNS) causes a threat to privacy and ethical conduct. The authors begin the article with a declaration of how the…

The era of intensified globalization processes was catalyzed by the emergence of the large-scale Internet. The central goal of the creation of the Internet was originally the idea of forming a platform for easy access to all kinds of information. However, it is clear that with the development of global networks, this need could no…

Humans have not changed through the centuries of historical development. People socialize and find multiple ways to connect to their relatives, friends, and colleagues as fast and comfortably as possible; so, the technologies changed. Now, the exhausting instruments and devices for distant communication are gradually being replaced by social networking. The concept supposes the known…

Internet sites and social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Whatsapp, LinkedIn, among others, have created new revolutionary ways to communicate, socialize, and interact. Other powerful mobile and web-based applications have also been developed for almost every social aspect of human life: From Uber, which helps users to get a taxi and commute hustle…

Social networks construct and reinforce normative conceptions of femininity and womens appearance. According to O-Neill (2014), young women and girls are under more pressure than ever before to look a certain way (para. 1). Older women are not an exception to this rule. López-Guimerà, Levine, Sánchez-Carracedo, and Fauquet (2012) state that women under thirty-five are…

Clients are the biggest asset of social networking sites, thus, efforts should be made not only to acquire new ones, but also to maintain the existing ones by ensuring client satisfaction. Social networking sites ensure that their users stay on board by reassuring them that they are in the best site that is capable of…

Table of Contents Issues in Social Networking Types of Appeal Possible Benefits of Social Networking References Issues in Social Networking In recent years, it is becoming increasingly clear that social networking applications such as Facebook and Twitter provide users with numerous new and exciting opportunities for establishing relationships across the geographic landscape (Rodricks, 2009), but…

How much time does an average contemporary individual spend using various social media? A modern person starts their day checking social networks for news and messages, during the day this person logs in and out multiple times to review various pages, finally in the end of the day the person spends hours chatting through the…

The era of intensified globalization processes was catalyzed by the emergence of the large-scale Internet. The central goal of the creation of the Internet was originally the idea of forming a platform for easy access to all kinds of information. However, it is clear that with the development of global networks, this need could no…