A negative image arising from too much Facebook immersion causes teenage girls to lose appetite and eventually develop eating disorders. This was the finding of a University of Haifa study wherein a sample of 248 girls aged 12 to 18 were surveyed and questioned on their usual entertainment fare and their perception of themselves. The [...]
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Americans Tweet More: 8% of US Adults Use Twitter
A study of US Internet users conducted by Pew Research indicates a rise in the use of the social networking site Twitter in adult Americans. This was just one of the interesting findings that the research firm found in the study participated in by more than 2,250 respondents. Eighteen percent of Hispanics and thirteen percent [...]
Tweeting More Can Boost GPAs
Using Twitter can help students excel academically besides aiding them socially, a new study from Pennsylvania’s Lock Haven University shows. Sending tweets on homework and extra credit assignments via the 140-character social networking site enable students to boost their grade point averages and be more engaged with the school until graduation. The researchers led by [...]
Most Facebook Users Login at 3PM EST
Using data culled from 1.64 million posts and 7.56 million comments from 1,500 Facebook streams beginning August until October 2010, a three-month study conducted by researchers from social media tool developer Vitrue sought to find patterns in ‘Facebooking’ behaviour in the US. The research has found that most people in the US post and read [...]
Texting, Social Networking Devil Tools?
A study by researchers from the Case Western Reserve University shows a strong link between excessive texting or browsing of social networking sites and risky behavior such as drug use and having sex – leading some people to believe these activities are tools of the devil. Teen hyper-texters (those who send more than 120 texts [...]