BACKGROUND Internet access via mobile phones and computers facilitates interaction and potential health communication among individuals through social networking. Many South African adolescents own mobile phones and can access social networks via apps. OBJECTIVE We investigated sociodemographic factors and HIV risk behaviors of adolescent social networking users in Soweto, South Africa. MET...

Background: In the past decade, social media has become an integral part of our everyday lives, but research on how this tool is used by public health workers and organizations is still developing. Budget cuts and staff reduction in county departments have required employees to take on more responsibilities. These reductions have caused a reduction in the time for training or collaborating with...

This paper explores the phenomenon of social networking that is changing social structures and communication practices around the globe. It draws parallels with the social structures that emerged in the industrial revolution (such as the social clubs, unions and cooperative societies) and discusses some of the far reaching impacts the current phenomenon is having on society: The paper presents ...

Support groups play an important role in helping individuals cope with their health conditions by providing members with a network of information and social support. It is not well understood what types of support are exchanged in an online, unmoderated, peerto-peer communication of patients and caregivers. We analyzed the informational and emotional support offered and requested among an alcoh...

This is an examination of social networking and the elderly. Interviews were conducted with seniors and staff of senior care centers to identify current social network usage patterns by the elderly and to understand their perceptions and attitudes towards the Web and social networks. Results revealed that seniors were unfamiliar with social networking and in particular Facebook, but would be op...

This paper investigates the frequency of occurrence of English borrowed words in terms of three variables of age, gender, and educational status. To do so, a corpus including the extant files of participants in a target group of telegram social networking was selected and analyzed. The quantitative study of the data shows that the occurrence of the loanwords is much more frequent in the speech ...

CONTEXT Social networking Web sites such as Facebook have grown rapidly in popularity. It is unknown how such sites affect the ways in which medical trainees investigate and interact with graduate medical education (GME) programs. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of social networking Web sites as a means for osteopathic medical students, interns, residents, and fellows to interact with GME progr...