BACKGROUND The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) bans all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. The comprehensiveness of this ban has yet to be tested by online social networking media such as Facebook. In this paper, the activities of employees of the transnational tobacco company, British American Tobacco, (BAT) on Facebook and the...

Some researchers predict a paradigm shift within Customer Relationship Management (CRM), moving from the traditional large in-house CRM systems to social software such as Facebook. In this article we investigate two issues. First: are there inherent problems in traditional CRM systems that Facebook may resolve? Second: if so, can social media replace CRM systems? We conducted a case study of tw...

In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the facebook cookbook building applications to grow your facebook empire book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other entertaining books bec...

The Facebook has become an essential part of almost every university students’ daily life, and while a large number of students seem to get benefits from use of the Facebook by exchanging information for educational goals, make friends, and other activities, the literature indicates that this social networking site can become addictive to some university students’ users, which is one of the tod...

In recent years, many research efforts have been focused on investigation of potential connection between social networking and mental health issues. Particularly important and controversial remains the association between Facebook use, self-esteem and life satisfaction. In our cross-sectional study, on a sample of 381 Facebook users, we tested the existence and strength of this relationship us...

Please cite this article in press as: Junco, R. Too m performance. Computers in Human Behavior (20 Because of the social media platform’s widespread adoption by college students, there is a great deal of interest in how Facebook use is related to academic performance. A small number of prior studies have examined the relationship between Facebook use and college grade point average (GPA); howev...

al behavior such as alcohol consumption, and revealed other sensitive aspects of their personal lives on Facebook, thereby making them available for observation by patients, as previously reported [1–4] . In this scenario, Facebook could play a key role in transforming the doctor-patient relationship: becoming aware of the doctor’s past and habits in everyday life beyond the consultation room m...

In this paper we describe the use of a social network application (Facebook) with individual open learner models at university level, to support collaborative learning. Results suggest that Facebook and open learner models can be used together to support collaborative learning. It also suggests that Facebook and open learner models can support sociability in collaborative learning: both were fo...

Due to the increasing amount of scientific work and the typical delays in publication, promptly assessing the impact of scholarly work is a huge challenge. To meet this challenge, one solution may be to create and discover innovative indicators. The goal of this paper is to investigate whether Facebook likes for unpublished manuscripts that are uploaded to the Internet could be used as an early...