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Ethan Kross, Philippe Verduyn, Emre Demiralp, Jiyoung Park + 6 more
'David Seungjae Lee' 'Natalie Lin' 'Holly Shablack' 'John Jonides' 'Oscar Ybarra' 'Cédric Sueur'] Over 500 million people interact daily with Facebook. Yet, whether Facebook use influences subjective well-being over time is unknown. We addressed this issue using experience-sampling, the most reliable method for…
Andrea Burattin, Giuseppe Cascavilla, Mauro Conti
Online Social Networks are becoming the most important "places" where people share information about their lives. With the increasing concern that users have about privacy, most social networks offer ways to control the privacy of the user. Unfortunately, we believe that current privacy settings are not as effective as…
Fabian J. Stangl, René Riedl, Roman Kiemeswenger, Christian Montag
Social networking sites (SNS), with Facebook as a prominent example, have become an integral part of our daily lives and more than four billion people worldwide use SNS. However, the (over-)use of SNS also poses both psychological and physiological risks. In the present article, we review the scientific literature on…
Hassan Farooqi, Hamza Patel, Hafiz Muhammad Aslam, Iqra Qamar Ansari + 11 more
'Mariya Khan' 'Noureen Iqbal' 'Hira Rasheed' 'Qamar Jabbar' 'Saqib Raza Khan' 'Barira Khalid' 'Anum Nadeem' 'Raunaq Afroz' 'Sara Shafiq' 'Arwa Mustafa' 'Nazia Asad'] Background Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. As of June 2012, Facebook reports more…
Jaderick P. Pabico, Jose Rene L. Micor
[English Abstract] Online social networking (OSN) has become of great influence to Filipinos, where Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Instagram are among the popular ones. Their popularity, coupled with their intuitive and interactive use, allow one's personal information such as gender, age, address…
S. Thuseethan, Sinnathamby Kuhanesan
Facebook is only an electronic communication between human but unfortunately it has become an addiction for all. This paper examines the usage of Facebook among university students and its influence in their academic performance. The impact of Facebook can either be good or bad on university students and in their…
Shah Mahmood, Yvo Desmedt
—With over 750 million active users, Facebook is the most famous social networking website. One particular aspect of Facebook widely discussed in the news and heavily researche d in academic circles is the privacy of its users. In this paper we introduce a zero day privacy loophole in Facebook. We call this the…
Roba Darwish, Kambiz Ghazinour
> Abstract. Online Social Networking Sites attracted a massive number of users over the past decade but also raised privacy concerns with the amount of personal information disclosed. Studies have shown that 25% of the users are not aware of privacy settings provided by these sites or do not know how to change them.…
Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh, Bahaman Abu Samah, Siti Zobidah Omar, Jusang Bolong + 1 more
'Jusang Bolong' 'Nurul Akhtar Kamarudin'] The Facebook has become an essential part of almost every university students' daily life, and while a large number of students seem to get benefits from use of the Facebook by exchanging information for educational goals, make friends, and other activities, the literature…
Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, Abdul G Sherzad, Kamran Zafarzai + 8 more
'Mohammad Q Nabizada' 'Abdul S Hussaini' 'Abdul N Jabarkhil' 'Habibullah Mawlavyzada' 'Said N Saidy' 'Najeebullah Ameen' 'Salahuddin Rahimee' 'Shukrullah Sahak'] Background/objectives Facebook is considered one of the most widely used social media platforms among young adults worldwide, including undergraduate…
Anne Katrin Schwab, Christina Sagioglou, Tobias Greitemeyer
One correlational study examined whether virtual contact via Facebook is positively related to intergroup relations. The followers of two online campaigns from Iran and Israel-whose countries have been in a politically hostile relationship since the 1980s-indicated the amount of direct and indirect virtual (Facebook)…
Michael Fire, Dima Kagan, Aviad Elyashar, Yuval Elovici
The amount of personal information unwillingly exposed by users on online social networks is staggering, as shown in recent research. Moreover, recent reports indicate that these networks are infested with tens of millions of fake users profiles, which may jeopardize the users' security and privacy. To identify fake…
Amaryllis Mavragani, Samantha Pabich, Thomas Wojckci, Sherry Pagoto + 6 more
Facebook, the most popular social media platform in the United States, is used by 239 million US adults, which represents 71% of the population. Not only do most US adults use Facebook but they also spend an average of 40 minutes per day on the platform. Due to Facebook’s reach and ease of use, it is increasingly being…
Roberta Biolcati, Giacomo Mancini, Virginia Pupi, Valeria Mugheddu
Worldwide, Facebook is becoming increasingly widespread as a communication platform. Young people especially use this social networking site daily to maintain and establish relationships. Despite the Facebook expansion in the last few years and the widespread acceptance of this social network, research into Facebook…
Chi-Heng Hsieh, Gen-Chang Hsu, Ling-Min Wang
Citizen science is increasingly used in bird-window collision (BWC) research to collect data. However, few studies have collected BWC data from social media, and it remains unknown whether the data quality is comparable to that of reported on dedicated platforms. To evaluate the potential of social media as a citizen…
Michael Peer, Mordechai Hayman, Bar Tamir, Shahar Arzy
To successfully navigate our social world, we keep track of other individuals’ relations to ourselves and to each other. But how does the brain encode this information? To answer this question, we mined participants’ social media (Facebook^TM^) profiles to objectively characterize the relations between individuals in…
Richard Bannor, Ran Xu, Jolaade Kalinowski, Tricia Leahey + 6 more
'Caitlin Caspi' 'Christie I. Idiong' 'Jared Goetz' 'Sherry Pagoto' 'Jorge Vázquez-Herrero' 'Rita Araújo'] Health-related content is prevalent on Facebook, but we know little about how often the typical user posts about health, the nature of such posts, or the characteristics of users who do so. We conducted a…
Scarlet Ferreira de Souza, Bárbara Rodrigues Cintra Armellini, Alexandre La Luna, Ana Carolina Ramos Moreno + 3 more
Increasingly, blending teaching has become a reality in a generation where the digital language is present in virtually every activity. In addition to allowing greater independence and encouraging students to learn at their own pace, blending teaching allows the student to easily access reliable information quickly.…
Bárbara Rodrigues Cintra Armellini, Alexandre La Luna, Vanessa Bueris, Alisson Pinto de Almeida + 5 more
The internet has changed the way teachers and students access information and build knowl-edge. The COVID-19 pandemic has recently created challenges for both teachers and students, demanding new methodologies for remote learning. In Life Sciences, mixing online content with practical activities represents an even…
Deborah O. Aluh, Thelma Chukwuobasi, Adaobi U. Mosanya
Social anxiety is one of the most prevalent and disabling anxiety disorders with lifetime prevalence rates ranging from 2 to 16% s in different populations. Considering the rising use of social media among university students, it is necessary to assess their social anxiety as a result of the use of social media…