Internet Safety INTRODUCTION When browsing on the internet‚ we rarely think about how the internet came to existence. We often go about our routine lives and don’t think about how the internet today has made it so convenient for people to get in touch with one another. This in turn has frequently led many people to having their identities stolen and also experienced being victims of online sexual predators. In this paper‚ we will discuss how with the evolution of the internet today‚ more
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websites and applications for social networking. Students communicate with their friends‚ family and strangers on this social media. There are many social networks available for students to communicate all over the world with people. Facebook‚ twitter‚ MySpace to mention a few are social networking site which every student has an account with‚ students create their a profile and put their information about themselves for their friends. In a country like Nigeria‚ students get access to the Internet through
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Students and the Effects of Social Networking Because roughly 150 million people use MySpace and Facebook‚ the door for social networking abuse is left wide open. Over the past several years‚ social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook have exploded in popularity‚ especially among children‚ teenagers and college students. However‚ recent events involving child predators and other dangerous individuals using these sites have raised concerns about safety and security. Many parents view
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| Model: Pattern of Organization: Comparison and Contrast In our daily lives we often compare and contrast two or more items. We might compare and contrast family members‚ TV shows‚ or favorite bands. The comparison and contrast pattern of organization is also common in many college textbooks. It is used to discuss ways in which two or more items are the same and how they differ.Signal WordsExample #1Here’s a short reading that demonstrates the compare and contrast pattern. Notice the comparison
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References: Bates‚ C. (Aug). The Dangers of Social Networking Sites. Retrieved from http://www.mhlearningsolutions.com/commonplace/ Connell‚ R. S. (2009). Academic Libraries‚ Face book and MySpace‚ and Student Outreach: A Survey of Student Opinion. Portal: Libraries and the Academy 9(1)‚ 25-36. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved May 8‚ 2012‚ from Project MUSE database. DURAN. (Aug‚ 18 2009). Define social networking. Retrieved from
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Social Networking for Teens Online: MySpace & Facebook ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Poor Okay Good Great Awesome Rate this article: None (19 votes) Bottom of Form by John Suler‚ Ph.D. Adolescents typically spend a lot of time talking with other teens online in websites such as MySpace and Facebook. Online teens now are a significant population‚ and it is important that kids as well as parents understand what is happening in this online world. First
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Positive Response Action: The ultimate goal of website communication Summary Understanding and knowing the audience is the key to delivering the message to them. The key to harnessing the Internet’s power is to understand all of the people with whom one will communicate with. Every website should have one overriding‚ generic entity goal to achieve positive response action. Both content and usability can be viewed as as cognitive ´triggers´‚ gateways to self-gratification and consequent PRA. Every
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One way to understand social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace is to consider that younger digital natives are not necessarily being exhibitionists when they post photographs of themselves and share personal details there. Instead‚ these users are living a life in which consciousness is spread out evenly over two platforms: real life and the Web. Rather than feeling schizophrenic or somehow pathological‚ digital natives understand that these two realms divide the self much as speech and
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interest. For Facebook‚ the talks come about one year after a proposed deal with Yahoo collapsed. Facebook then was said to be seeking more than the $1.65 billion Google paid for YouTube - and considerably more than the $580 million News Corp. paid for MySpace in 2005. This move by Microsoft will help bring the software giant further into the realms of the internet. While already synonymous with operating systems and office productivity software‚ the company hasn’t really taken off in areas that rival
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Started Named for "six degrees of separation‚" SixDegrees.com was the first social site from 1997 to 2001. It was followed in 2002 by Friendster and MySpace a year later. Started by two friends‚ MySpace became extremely popular‚ and its parent company‚ Intermix‚ was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million two years after MySpace was launched. See MySpace and Friendster. Facebook came out in 2004 targeting college students‚ but when it opened to everyone‚ it grew exponentially to become the top
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