There has been extensive research into friend-oriented and professional social networking websites, but relatively little work on passion-oriented sites designed to connect strangers around a shared passion. In this study, we extend the work on passion-oriented social networking through an examination of pet-oriented social networks. We address two questions. First, do people interacting in sem...

The social networking plays an important role on the internet in all spheres of activities including technology-assisted learning (TAL). Further online capital built upon sites (SNS) adds significant value to TAL. This study aims compare users’ profile, behavior and two contrasting SNS, namely LinkedIn Facebook. It also discusses possible implications A total number 329 valid responses were rec...

Social networking sites are used for both personal and professional interactions. Social apps thrive in the environment provided by social networking sites. Companies are focussing on this market space to promote their products and to identify new sources of revenue generation. The objective of our paper is to identify the factors for purchase decision and word of mouth of virtual and digital g...

With the advent of popular Web destinations such as MySpace and Facebook, online social networking communities now occupy the center stage of e-commerce. Yet these online social networking communities must balance the trade-off between advertising revenue and user experience. Drawing on the sociology and advertising literature, this study investigates the impacts of social identity and group no...

Clustering is one of the very important technique used for classification of large dataset and widely applied to many applications including analysis of social networking sites, aircraft accidental, company performance etc. In recent days, Communication, advertising through social networking sites are most popular and interactive strategy among the users. This research attempts to find the larg...

The advent and adoption of internet-based social networking has significantly altered our daily lives. The educational community has taken notice of the positive aspects of social networking such as creation of blogs and to support groups of system designers going through the same challenges and difficulties. This paper introduces a social networking framework for collaborative education, desig...

As social networking services become increasingly popular, more and more attacks against users’ private information are reported. As a result, privacy protection becomes an important concern among users. Previous research has produced many different approaches to deal with privacy control in different social networking sites. In this paper, we make a survey on different approaches proposed to t...

OBJECTIVE to identify the use of social networking in nursing education. METHOD integrative literature review in the databases: LILACS, IBECS, Cochrane, BDENF, SciELO, CINAHL, Scopus, PubMed, CAPES Periodicals Portal and Web of Science, using the descriptors: social networking and nursing education and the keywords: social networking sites and nursing education, carried out in April 2015. R...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2008.08.006 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 718 951 3857; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Fogel). Individuals communicate and form relationships through Internet social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace. We study risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns with regard to social networking websites am...

The recent years witnessed the emergence and growth of social networking sites as sites for social interaction, and gradually as educational sites. This emergence calls for research regarding the potentialities of social networking sites for the teaching and learning of various disciplines. This article describes an experiment in using the Facebook, as representative of social networking sites,...