Addiction to social

networking sites
ORIGINS
 Year of Launch: 2004
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No. of Users: Over 500 million
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Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Suarin E
Dustin Moscovitz
Chris Hughes B
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 Year of Launch: 2004

No. of Users: Over 100 million

 Year of Launch: 2003
No of users: Over 50 Million
 Year of Launch: 2003
No. of users: 66 Million
TWITTER

Year Of Launch: 2006

No. of Users: 190 Million
 WHAT MAKES
SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
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Are personal relationships taking
a backseat
Do you to facebook?
think about facebook
even if when you are offline?
Do Do
youyou
stay
useon facebook
facebook to longer
than intended?
escape problems?
If your answer is yes to any of
these questions…
you may be a borderline
addict!!!
 Well
You if
mayyou have more
think,”I’m facebook
not friends
addicted,I can
If you
than spend
real
Click more time on
friends,something
icon to add twitter
must be
quit
than anytime!”
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done.
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Regardless of your excuse,
this is not ok.
If you spend more time on
linkledin profile than doing
actual work,it’s time for an
intervention
Disadvantages of
social networking
PRIVATE INFORMATION
You are putting out information about
your name, location, age, gender, and
many other types of information that
you may not want to let others know.
 SECURITY PROBLEMS
There is a chance for failure of security in both personal
and business field. While many sites apply certain
measures to keep any of these cases of harassment, cyber-
stalking, online scams, and identity theft to an absolute
minimum, YOU STILL NEVER KNOW……..
 TIME
CONSUMING
 If this is not your kind of thing, that it would
just be a waste of time for you. That should be
reasonable enough for anyone, but there are
those people who don't see the point…. For
them, it can be a mere disadvantage.
ENJOY SAFELY
 As long as you go along without
making big mistakes, then it is all
good. You can take advantage of the
Internet phenomenon that continues
up to this day.
 ANTI SOCIAL NETWORKING
PROGRAMMES
Not to say that such websites are malicious in intent.
However, as with all good things, one can have a
tendency to overindulge or even become addicted.
So there is a great need of programs to stop this
addiction
 ANTI SOCIAL
ORGANIZATION.
 World over the usage
of social networking
sites have increased
in the recent past and
so the case of hate in
these sites.

There has been an international organization

which was created in 2002 named International
Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH).
 Many more organizations many
software, many blogs and many
groups are made to stop this over
indulgement of social networking
sites.
REMEDIES: A WAY OUT FOR
YOU!
 Spend less time  Indulge yourself in
on social new hobbies.
networking sites.  Spend the
 Keep a check on maximum amount
the number of of time with your
sites you visit. friends and
family.
 A time duration
check is a must
 Join a club or
watch. recreation centre
to keep yourself
busy.
P
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E GAYATRI BATRA
N SHIVAM AGGARWAL
ABHISHEK
MAYANK
DHAWANGUPTA
SWADHA
T SINGHAL

E AMAN KUMAR
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