The phenomenon of online social networking has evolved to include more than the teenage stereotype looking to expand his/her network of online friends. People of all ages and backgrounds have discovered that they can enrich their lives through the contacts they make on a social networking website. The social networks must progress to make the user's life easier with the aim of providing securit...

Research shows that various social media platforms on Internet such as Twitter, Tumblr (micro-blogging websites), Facebook (a popular social networking website), YouTube (largest video sharing and hosting website), Blogs and discussion forums are being misused by extremist groups for spreading their beliefs and ideologies, promoting radicalization, recruiting members and creating online virtual...

BACKGROUND Different theoretical frameworks support the use of interactive websites to promote sexual health. Although several Web-based interventions have been developed to address sexual risk taking among young people, no evaluated interventions have attempted to foster behavior change through moderated interaction among a virtual network of adolescents (who remain anonymous to one another) a...

BACKGROUND The translation of Web-based physical activity intervention research into the real world is lacking and becoming increasingly important. OBJECTIVE To compare usage and effectiveness, in real-world settings, of a traditional Web 1.0 Web-based physical activity intervention, providing limited interactivity, to a Web 2.0 Web-based physical activity intervention that includes interacti...

it is of no doubt that social media sites have become the most dominated subject in today life. however, the effect of those websites has widely disseminated not only into social life but into the business world as well. recruitment is one of the topics that have influence by social networking sites. previous studies have shown growing use of social networking sites such as facebook, twitter an...

This research aims at the relationship between dependence on mobile social networking and academic performance of second-grade male high school students in Tabriz City. This research is an applied research based on descriptive-correlational methodology. Statistical population of this research includes all second-grade male high school students in the academic year of 2016-2017 whose volume is 2...

Social networks have become an important marketing tools for business to build brand pages to prompt their new products. If this medium is explored intelligently then the social network medium has a potential to provide many new ways to market the audience with the help of registered users indirectly, without knowing them. Social Network (Face book) has provided many tools for marketing purpose...