Impact of Social Networking Sites on First Year Multimedia Arts Program

IntroductionToday, young people around the manhood have been using genial networking sites with their own different manipulations. The main purpose of social networking sites is confabulation. It is likely believed that social networking sites have greatly improved communication especially for people who have their loved ones abroad. Some people devolve well-nigh of their time on social networking sites, specifically Facebook and Twitter. Studies show that most young people or teenagers are addicted to these social networking sites. complimentary to say, it is not healthy to spend most of our time on social networking sites, especially for teenagers who are supposedly using their time to study. As Coyne (2010) mentions in his research paper Its hard for most college students to remember a time before social networks. Half of Facebooks 500 meg users will log-in on any given day. On the similar day 65 million tweets are sent. The last 10 geezerhood have witnessed major advance ments in global communication. It appears fiction has become a reality.Social networking sites can too affect social behavior. It can any improve or hinder an individuals social behavior. In the Philippines, where most teenagers use social networking sites, such as Facebook covered 12 percent of all active users according to statistics. Most of these teenagers are hooked on social networking sites in engaging any kind of consanguinity with someone. It is often that an individual would be socially awkward in habitual if he/she is dependent on social networking sites and reluctant to personal interaction. no matter of being so dependent on social networking sites, this may also improve an individuals relationship with one another. As express by Boyd (2007), internet... ...ocial Network Sites Definition, History, and Scholarship. Journal ofComputer-Mediated Communication. 13(1)Coyne, E. (2010). http//ecoyne.blogspot.com/Haythornthwaite, C. (1996). Social network analysis An ap peal and technique for the study of information exchange. Library and Information Science Research, 18, 323-342.Kuppuswamy and Shankar. (2012).http//www.infotoday.com/searcher/jul07/reid_grey.shtml Ruffes, V. (2010). http//jhands.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/social-networking-research-paper/Sundn, (2003). Social Network Sites Definition, History, and Scholarship. Journal ofComputer-Mediated Communication. 13(1)Trusov, M., Bucklin, R.E., Pauwels, K. (2009). http//www.emeraldinsight.com/bibliographic_databases.htm?id=1819982Wiley and Sisson (2006).http//scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1279&context=gradco nf_hospitality