Facebook: Social Network Service and Young Generation
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1: Introduction
1.1.1: Problem Statement Facebook Addiction is increasing rapidly among young generation.
1.1.2: Rational for doing the research
We have chosen this topic because Facebook is the most popular social networking virtual world now-a-days. And Bangladeshi young generation is getting addicted to facebook rapidly.
Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, As of July 2010 Facebook has more than 500 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school, or college, or other characteristics. (wikipedia, 2010, para. 1)
A statistics from Wikipedia regarding increasing number of facebook over the world user as below: Date | Users | Days later | Monthly growth[N 2] | August 26, 2008 | 100[27] | 1,665 | 178.38% | April 8, 2009 | 200[28] | 225 | 13.33% | September 15, 2009 | 300[29] | 150 | 10% | February 5, 2010 | 400[30] | 143 | 6.99% | July 21, 2010 | 500[6] | 166 | 4.52% |
1.1.3: Overview
So to find out the scenario of facebook addiction and it’s impact among young people,we did study among 35 Undergraduate students of American international University- Bangladesh (AIUB). We had two options to collect data and we selected Survey as our data collection techniques.
1.1.4: Research question and Chapters:
We ask some questions to find some answers like, how many times people are spending on facebook, what are the purposes to use facebook, good and bad things of facebook etc.
To do this study we followed this chapters like methodology to choose data collection technique, data analysis to analysis the collected data in statistics, findings , discussion to observe the situation and bring out some solutions, conclusion to
1.1: Introduction
1.1.1: Problem Statement Facebook Addiction is increasing rapidly among young generation.
1.1.2: Rational for doing the research
We have chosen this topic because Facebook is the most popular social networking virtual world now-a-days. And Bangladeshi young generation is getting addicted to facebook rapidly.
Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, As of July 2010 Facebook has more than 500 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school, or college, or other characteristics. (wikipedia, 2010, para. 1)
A statistics from Wikipedia regarding increasing number of facebook over the world user as below: Date | Users | Days later | Monthly growth[N 2] | August 26, 2008 | 100[27] | 1,665 | 178.38% | April 8, 2009 | 200[28] | 225 | 13.33% | September 15, 2009 | 300[29] | 150 | 10% | February 5, 2010 | 400[30] | 143 | 6.99% | July 21, 2010 | 500[6] | 166 | 4.52% |
1.1.3: Overview
So to find out the scenario of facebook addiction and it’s impact among young people,we did study among 35 Undergraduate students of American international University- Bangladesh (AIUB). We had two options to collect data and we selected Survey as our data collection techniques.
1.1.4: Research question and Chapters:
We ask some questions to find some answers like, how many times people are spending on facebook, what are the purposes to use facebook, good and bad things of facebook etc.
To do this study we followed this chapters like methodology to choose data collection technique, data analysis to analysis the collected data in statistics, findings , discussion to observe the situation and bring out some solutions, conclusion to
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