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    Social Media and Addiction

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    Social media addiction occurs when individuals spend too much time on social media platforms. The document defines social media as interactive technologies that allow sharing of information through virtual communities and networks. It then discusses various social media platforms like social networks, bookmarking sites, social news, media sharing sites, microblogging, blogs/comments/forums, and sharing economy networks. While social media provides benefits like connecting people and sharing information, overuse can lead to addiction unless time spent on social media is controlled in moderation.

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    Social media addiction occurs when individuals spend too much time on social media platforms. The document defines social media as interactive technologies that allow sharing of information through virtual communities and networks. It then discusses various social media platforms like social networks, bookmarking sites, social news, media sharing sites, microblogging, blogs/comments/forums, and sharing economy networks. While social media provides benefits like connecting people and sharing information, overuse can lead to addiction unless time spent on social media is controlled in moderation.

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    Social media addiction occurs when individuals spend too much time on social media platforms. The document defines social media as interactive technologies that allow sharing of information through virtual communities and networks. It then discusses various social media platforms like social networks, bookmarking sites, social news, media sharing sites, microblogging, blogs/comments/forums, and sharing economy networks. While social media provides benefits like connecting people and sharing information, overuse can lead to addiction unless time spent on social media is controlled in moderation.

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    Social Media and Addiction

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    Social media addiction occurs when individuals spend too much time on social media platforms. The document defines social media as interactive technologies that allow sharing of information through virtual communities and networks. It then discusses various social media platforms like social networks, bookmarking sites, social news, media sharing sites, microblogging, blogs/comments/forums, and sharing economy networks. While social media provides benefits like connecting people and sharing information, overuse can lead to addiction unless time spent on social media is controlled in moderation.

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    Social Media and Addiction

    Thesis Statement: Individuals may become addicted to social media


    unless they control the amount of time they spend on it
    I. Definition: Social Media
    Social media are interactive technologies that allow the creation or
    sharing/ exchange of information, ideas, career interests, and other forms
    of expression via virtual communities and networks.

    II. Types of Social media


    A. Social networks - A social network is a website that allows people with
    similar interests to come together and share information, photos and
    videos. ... Those who engage on social network sites as a personal
    endeavor interact by using various forms of media to discuss their lives
    and interests.
    B. Bookmarking sites - Bookmarking Websites (also called social
    bookmarking) allow users to save and share links to websites or
    interesting articles with others. This is a good solution for storing and
    organizing links important for us. Bookmarks are most often tagged which
    allows subsequent users to search for them by topic.
    C. Social news - Social media news, often referred to simply as social
    news, refers to a more modern tendency to get news from social media
    rather than more traditional news sources. This can take many forms,
    whether it means reading news that people in your network have shared,
    reading status updates and the like, or reading news from pages that you
    follow.
    D. Media sharing - Enabling others to view/play someone's multimedia
    collection (photos, videos, music). It is most often done via the Web. See
    media sharing site, photo sharing site and video sharing site.
    E. Microblogging - Microblogging is a web service that allows the
    subscriber to broadcast short messages to other subscribers of the
    service. Microposts can be made public on a Web site and/or distributed
    to a private group of subscribers.
    F. Blogs, Comments, and Forums - Blogs are full of posts and comments,
    created by authors, organised into categories. Forums are full of topics
    and comments created by members, organised into different sub-forums.
    G. Community Blogs - Community blogs are predominantly websites
    where many authors can post journal entries on a single space and where
    people can respond by commenting on posts to the community blog.
    H. Sharing economy networks - The sharing economy is an economic
    model defined as a peer-to-peer (P2P) based activity of acquiring,
    providing, or sharing access to goods and services that is often facilitated
    by a community-based online platform.

    III. Uses of Social Media


    A. Social networking serves as a way to connect individuals with other
    people and businesses to share information, ideas, and messages.
    B. Social bookmarking sites make it easy for people to find websites and
    help you generate backlinks to your website.
    C. Social news websites help participants to share a collective vision and
    awareness of how their actions are integrated with those of other
    individuals.
    D. Media sharing sites allow you to upload your photos, videos and audio
    to a website that can be accessed from anywhere in the world.
    E. Microblogs are important because they allow us to connect with the
    world around us.
    F. Blogs and forums have objective of helping others and sharing
    information, can help in improving a company's online presence and SEO.
    G. They can be used for anything that involves communicating or
    publishing information on the World Wide Web.
    H. The sharing economy is an emerging, highly flexible economic network
    that allows people to share resources such as equipment, services, and
    skills with one another, often at significantly lower cost than traditional
    retail or employment arrangements.

    IV. Conclusion
    Social Media have a lot of advantages for us, it’s more convenient and
    easy access for everything. However also social media have
    disadvantages. Well everything is good, but in moderation.

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