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I chose the topic Social networks. Attach is Chapter 7 from my book and the reference for the two article. Please feel to contact me if you cannot find the article and i will try and send them to you. Please be sure to meet the criteria!

Please select from one of the following topics, which are addressed in the course textbook, Introduction to Computer Literacy:

  • Collaborative Technologies (covered in Chapter 1)
  • Ethical Concerns in Computing (covered in Chapter 1)
  • The Digital Divide (covered in Chapter 1)
  • Open Source Software (covered in Chapter 3)
  • The Impact of Mobile Computing (covered in Chapter 4)
  • Social Networks (covered in Chapter 7)
  • Protecting Copyrights and Intellectual Property (covered in Chapter 8)
  • The Future of Cloud Computing (covered in Chapter 9)
  • Return to the textbookand review the pages in the chapter that pertain to your selected topic.
  • Select two scholarly articles to use in your paper. For each article, write down the author information, date of publication, title of the article, the publication information (journal title), and the database from which you retrieved the article. You will need this information when you create your references for the sources.
  • Begin the writing process. You are going to compare the points of view offered by these authors (the author of your textbook and the authors of the two articles you have selected) on your selected topic, and then offer your own point of view based upon your analysis of the readings.

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    • At least one paragraph for each of your three sources showing your thoughtful analysis of the point of view introduced by the authors.
    • At least two paragraphs illustrating how the authors of those three sources agree or disagree with one another about the topic.
    • At least two paragraphs that reflect your own point of view and provide a conclusion about your chosen topic.

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    APA (American Psychological Assoc.) References Gosling, S. D., Augustine, A. A., Vazire, S., Holtzman, N., & Gaddis, S. (2011). Manifestations of personality in Online Social Networks: self-reported Facebook-related behaviors and observable profile information. Cyberpsychology, Behavior And Social Networking, 14(9), 483-488. doi:10.1089/cyber.2010.0087 APA (American Psychological Assoc.) References Ruder, T. D., Hatch, G. M., Ampanozi, G., Thali, M. J., & Fischer, N. (2011). Suicide announcement on Facebook. Crisis: The Journal Of Crisis Intervention And Suicide Prevention, 32(5), 280-282. doi:10.1027/02275910/a000086 7.3 Social and Business Networking T hink for a moment about the people in your life. They typically fall into two main groups, or networks. The first are your friends and family, with whom you share your innermost secrets, dreams, desires, and aspirations. The second group of people you associate with is your colleagues and associates at work. Of course, many of them might become friends too, but in general, you share different aspects of your life with them as compared with your family. These are the two main networks that define our daily interactions. With the advent of Web 2.0, we now have Web applications that enable us to communicate with these networks in new and exciting ways. For your friends and family, there is the social networking site called Facebook, and for your colleagues at work, LinkedIn® has become the most important business networking site. These networks are extremely popular Web destinations, and they are examples of Web 2.0 technology at its best. Taking a look at the popularity statistics, it is staggering to see the amount of traffic they receive. According to statistics from Facebook, there are over one billion monthly active users. (http://newsroom.fb.com/Key-Facts). By comparison, LinkedIn® had 175 million members in August 2012 (see: http://press.LinkedIn.com/about). In this section, we will look more closely at these applications and explore how you can use them to cultivate, expand, and improve your communication with the people in your life. Facebook If you have not experienced Facebook personally, it can be difficult to understand. Using Facebook is not like transforming a paper diary into digitized text and putting it on the Web, as a blog does. Instead, it is an entirely new communications environment. It was Friendster and MySpace that originally defined this genre of Web applications. Friendster no longer exists, and Facebook has now trampled MySpace to become the leading social networking site. So, what is Facebook, exactly? Facebook (which can be found at http://www.facebook.com) originated in 2004. This Web application allows you to blog, establish private networks, share photos, and locate friends. You can form and join groups of people who share your interests. You can post brief status updates, as you might do on Twitter. Facebook is a dynamic and vibrant Web community that is completely free to use (Vander Veer, 2008). Friends on Facebook Without friends, Facebook is a lonely and quiet place. So, the first thing you will want to do is try to find people you know by using the search box in the upper-right corner of your monitor screen. When you see someone you know, as add them as a Facebook Friend if you want to share information. Once they accept the invitation, you can start keeping track of what they are doing when they update their status, post a picture, or join a group. Both parties must agree before the friendship is official. Once it is, then you have access to each other’s profiles, friend lists, postings, and so on. There is now a new official word in the English language—the verb unfriend. This is what you do when you decide to remove someone from your online Friends list. Facebook’s Timeline and News Feed When you finish creating your profile, you will have your own timeline. A timeline on Facebook is like a big chronology of your life where your posts, photos, and likes will appear daily as you create them. You can also insert historical posts in the past to commemorate memorable moments like school graduations, marriages, and births of children. It is through this feature that people can now post to dates before Facebook was established. At the top, is a box with a question that asks things like: “What’s on your mind?” “How’s it going?” or “How are you doing?” Your answer to this question is called your Facebook status update. When you type something and select the Post button, it is posted to your timeline as well as to the timelines of all of your friends. You can also visit one of your friends and post something directly to them on their timeline, and, of course, they can do the same for you. There are also options for real-time chat and private messages. The News Feed is a scrolling list of all of your friends’ posts on Facebook as they happen. Facebook considers Timeline and News Feed the two central “pillars” of its site, and in 2013, they are emphasizing a third called “Graph Search.” Facebook’s Activity Log and Graph Search Another key component of your Facebook page is known as the Activity Log. This is a list of all of your posts and various activities you have made from the very moment you first created an account on Facebook. This includes photos you have been tagged in, friends you have made, and pages and posts you have liked. As of September 2012, Facebook updated the Activity Log to include search queries. Search is becoming more important to the Facebook mission. Its search engine is called Graph Search. This is a powerful new tool that will enable users to find friends who have visited a particular place or like a specific topic. Examples of these searches might be: “Chinese restaurants liked by my friends who are Chinese.” While this is a great feature for finding new types of information, it does raise continued privacy concerns. Facebook Caution It is important to remember that everything you do on Facebook is visible to all of your friends. So, remember who is watching. Dave Awl, author of a book titled Facebook Me!, offered an excellent piece of advice. He suggested, “An ounce of discretion is worth a ton of privacy settings” (Awl, 2009, p. 52). Keep in mind that family members, friends, and coworkers might all be in your Facebook network. If they are, then you should remember to be discreet. Do not complain about your coworkers to your friends or disclose family secrets to your coworkers. Bad behavior on Facebook can have real-world consequences. For example, there have been cases of colleges rejecting a student’s application based on inappropriate postings on Facebook. Although there are some privacy settings, as a general rule, it is good to remember that if you post something on Facebook, there are no secrets. Once you become more advanced with Facebook, you can group your friends into tiers such as Trusted, Family, Acquaintance, and Restricted friends. Then you can begin controlling who sees what. But until then, post wisely and discreetly, but most of all, have fun! Google+™ Despite its size and market share, Facebook does have competitors. Its largest threat is from Google, who has also entered the social networking competition with Google+™ (http://plus.google.com). While in many ways it is similar to Facebook, a major difference is that Google+™ members have an increased chance of interacting with strangers, even those in a different country. A key feature in Google+™ is its circles. This is a simple way to group people you know. For example, you might include a circle of friends, another circle with coworkers, and a third circle of family members. You could then send out a message regarding a family reunion just to your family circle because your coworkers or friends might not be interested. These targeted groups are also possible in Facebook, but Google+™ makes this a more streamlined and centralized feature. The battle between Facebook and Google+™ will continue, and in the meantime there are other social networks that are important to explore. LinkedIn® While Facebook is for fun, LinkedIn® (at http://www.LinkedIn.com) is a valuable Web application for business networking. If Facebook wears shorts and sandals, then LinkedIn® is dressed in a suit and tie. First and foremost, LinkedIn® is a business network. According to Jason Alba in his book I’m on LinkedIn—Now What???, there are four main groups of people who set up accounts here. The first are professionals who want to share their skills with the world. This type of exposure can assist in finding clients. Second are those who are looking for jobs. LinkedIn ® can help them find out who is hiring and also get leads from friends. Third, LinkedIn® is for recruiters and those who are in charge of hiring people to work at their organizations. Finally, LinkedIn ® is for entrepreneurs who have established a company and are looking to create an online presence, define a new brand, or find partners, investors, and customers (Alba, 2007, p. 14). In short, if you are in the business world, you should be on LinkedIn®. LinkedIn® is becoming an indispensible tool for professional networking. Do you know anyone who has found a job or a business opportunity through LinkedIn®? LinkedIn® Profile and Contacts Just as with Facebook, when you set up your account with LinkedIn® (which is also free) you will create a profile of yourself. Unlike Facebook, you will spend more time entering a description of your educational background and work history. Think of your LinkedIn® profile as an online version of your resume. You should also upload a photo of yourself to personalize your profile. Once you complete your profile, you will want to start searching for contacts you know. This process is very similar to finding friends on Facebook. You can search for one person at a time, or you can import contacts (select Contacts from the upper menu bar and then Add Connections) from your email system, and LinkedIn® can determine whether they have accounts. Decide which people you want to invite and then send a message saying, “Join my network on LinkedIn®.” LinkedIn® Recommendations Recommendations are important in LinkedIn®, just as in the business world. The difference is that all of your contacts here can see your recommendations of other people, and also what others have said about you. Once you have built up your contact list, select three people with whom you have worked and write a recommendation for each of them. You might also suggest that they return the favor for you. LinkedIn® Network On LinkedIn®, your network extends beyond your primary contacts. Just as in the real world, where a “friend of a friend” might help you, there is something similar with LinkedIn ®. All of your contacts are broken down into three main tiers. The first is your primary contacts, known as Your Connections, and they are defined with an icon of a circle with a number 1 inside. These are all the people you have invited directly to join your network, and those whose invitations you have accepted. The next network level is called Two Degrees Away, and it includes all the associates of your primary contacts mentioned above. The third network level is called Three Degrees Away, and it includes friends of the friends of your primary contacts. LinkedIn® allows you to search all of these people and contact them directly through what it calls an Introduction. For example, if you are interviewing at a company and you see that one of your Three Degrees Away contacts works there, you might introduce yourself to learn more about the company and its needs. This is why LinkedIn® is so powerful. To understand the power of LinkedIn®, consider the statistics in the following example. You can transform just 62 of your own contacts into more than 10,000 friends of friends. When you consider all their friends, your network can easily reach more than a million people. Technology Today: The Influence of Social Networking Sites With so many people using social networking sites, what impact is all this social networking having on society at large? The media often portrays social networkers as social misfits more interested in chatting with virtual friends than making real ones. There also have been sensational stories about teens committing suicide as a result of “cyberbullying” taking place on social networks. But people who regularly follow the impact of technology on society argue that when it comes to social networks, the positives far outweigh the negatives. That certainly was the conclusion drawn by a team of researchers at Michigan State University that spent three years studying how undergraduates use Facebook. A research team member posted these comments on a New York Times online forum regarding the impact of social networks on society (Dubner, 2008): Our original motivation was to better understand why individuals would voluntarily use a site that, based on media reports, offered them only a way to disclose information they shouldn’t disclose, collect hundreds of “friends” they didn’t know, and waste time better spent studying. What we found surprised us. These students were using Facebook to increase the size of their social network, and therefore, their access to more information and diverse perspectives. They used the site to look up old high school acquaintances, to find out information about people in their classes or dorms that might be used to strike up a conversation, to get contact information for friends, and many other activities. These aren’t the kinds of Facebook activities you are likely to read about in the media, which have encouraged widespread public concern about Facebook use by young people. Other studies are busting myths surrounding social networking as well. For instance, Facebook reports that its greatest growth now comes from the 35- to 49-year-old age group, and 50- to 64-year-olds are joining the site at twice the rate of teens (Corbett, 2009). These numbers may be skewed somewhat by the fact that teens and young adults were early adopters, which means there are fewer of them left to sign up. Still, the growth in adoption among older generations indicates that social networking is becoming a mainstream activity. Even the most conservative of businesspeople are flocking to sites like LinkedIn® because they find them to be useful tools for building—and maintaining—stronger business relationships. Major corporations are setting up Facebook fan pages and Twitter accounts in order to keep customers abreast of their latest products. Some companies now assign employees to monitor social networks for any negative comments about their products or services. This allows them to resolve problems or create strategies to alleviate negative public perception before that information gets to the mainstream media. Although social networking is still in its infancy, all indications are that it will continue growing and maturing for some time to come. The question is whether its positives will continue to outweigh its negatives over the long term. Some optimistic observers believe social networks could potentially change the world for the better by making it easier for people from different cultures to see—and better understand—viewpoints from different parts of the world. (continued) CHAPTER 7 Section 7.3 Social and Business Networking A Culture Clash Many instances of social networks have been sparking global debates. One case occurred when Molly Norris, a Seattle-based cartoonist, objected to the Comedy Central network editing a portion of its South Park program that would have depicted the Prophet Mohammed in a bear costume. Muslims believe that any drawing of Mohammed is blasphemous. But Norris felt Comedy Central, as a U.S.-based network, was violating the free speech rights of the South Park producers. She created a Facebook page and launched a contest encouraging artists to submit their best drawings of Mohammed. Roughly a month later, 40,000 people had registered support for the contest, while more than 50,000 had registered on a separate page opposing the idea. Thousands of people also took to the streets of Pakistan to protest the contest, causing that country’s government to block access to Facebook until the contest page was removed (Hill, 2010). This incident clearly shows social media’s ability to quickly disseminate opposing views on an issue. But will these tools become powerful enough to stop opposing sides from shouting at each other, and instead encourage them to actually resolve their differences? Only time will tell. Links for More Information For a visual on who uses different social networking sites, visit: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/03/social-demographics-who-uses-facebook-tumblr-twitter-pinterestinstagram-infographic.html For information about some pros and cons of social media, see: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=412755 Questions to Consider 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Is online networking only for fun? What is the most popular social networking site on the Web? What is the status update question that you answer about yourself on Facebook? What is the name of the location on Facebook where you post status updates and comments to your friends? Why is discretion an important guide for what you post on Facebook? What is the most popular business networking site on the Web? What is the difference between social networking and business networking? Define the three main connection tiers on LinkedIn®. Technology Today: The Influence of Social Networking Sites (continued)
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    Over the past years, social networks have become very popular especially among the
    young generation. Social networks such as Facebook and Whatsapp have, in fact, become almost
    unavoidable as means of communication and interaction between people. Other social networks
    that have become common in the way people interact today include Twitter and Instagram. The
    social media refers to technologies that allow creation and sharing of information, through
    networks that are virtual. Examples of social media sites include Facebook and Twitter (Ryan,
    2011).
    Understanding how the social networks may prove challenging for the older generations,
    but for the millennials, very few can go for five seconds before getting access to the internet. Let
    us take a closer analysis to each of the social networks so as to understand them better. First, for
    someone who has not used Facebook, it may be difficult to understand how the site works or
    how to form meaningful interactions using the same. Facebook offers a communication
    environment that is completely new and different from the traditional methods of communication
    (Gosling, Augustine, VAzire, Holtzman, Gaddis, 2011). In order for one to have access to
    Facebook and make use of the same, one must have a gadget such as a computer or a mobile
    phone that is able to connect to the internet.
    Facebook is an application that allows users to blog and gives every person the
    opportunity to create his or her own network that is private. With Facebook, it is also possible to
    share photos with those one is connected to. The platform also gives users the opportunity to
    locate friend whom they have an interest in interacting with. The location of friends that are
    known to someone is made possible by the presence of profile pictures on a person’s timeline.

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    The network also has the option of one using the name they prefer identifying themselves with
    and this is the name that one ...


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