BACKGROUND Social networking sites, in particular Facebook, are not only predominant in students' social life but are to varying degrees interwoven with the medical curriculum. Particularly, Facebook groups have been identified for their potential in higher education. However, there is a paucity of data on user types, content, and dynamics of study-related Facebook groups. OBJECTIVE The aim o...

Considering Facebook as one of the most successful social networking platforms turning into a service-platform model, this case study indicates the reasons for this success from a business model point of view. The first section introduces a business model concept based on the latest research. Afterwards the concept has been applied to specify the most important elements of this business model c...

Facebook is the most dominant social networking site in colleges right now. According to a recent study done by OnlineEducation.net on college students' use of social media in the U.S., 96 percent of college students use Facebook. In addition, 75 percent of college students report that they want to collaborate online with each other via Facebook (Andrew, 2011). Because of the popularity of Face...

This paper examines the impact of Facebook usage on students' academic performance. In addition, it also analyse whether Socialization influences Facebook usage. Empirical data was collected from 1165 Malaysian university students using a questionnaire survey. It was found that the construct Socially Accepted influences Facebook usage while Acculturation does not have any significant relationsh...

Novel infl uenza A (H1N1) in a pediatric health care facility in New York City during the fi rst wave of the 2009 pandemic. unusual cause of fever in a neonate: infl u-enza A (H1N1) virus pneumonia. To the Editor: The recent article by Oh et al. (1) discussed the utility of email surveys for the investigation of outbreaks. After they have been created, digital surveys require less time to admin...

▪ Replayed Facebook and Bing workloads ▪ LIFE reduces average completion time by 53% and 51% in Facebook and Bing workloads ▪ Small jobs see 77% improvement ▪ LFU-F improves cluster utilization by 47% and 53% in the Facebook and Bing workloads ▪ LIFE and LFU-F beat Belady’s MIN despite lower cache hit-ratio ▪ Pre-fetch & Pre-replace → Ideal (87%) speedup ▪ Pre-replacement ~ Oracle cache evictio...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS There is an emerging literature base on the relationship between maladaptive traits and "addiction" to social networking sites. These studies have operationalized addiction as either spending excessive amounts of time on social networking sites (SNS) or trouble controlling SNS use, but have not assessed the unique contribution of each of these constructs on outcomes in the s...

For some years academics have debated the role in higher education of Facebook, the world’s most extensive social networking site. At first there was enthusiasm—it was a new tool that could be ‘repurposed’ for education; then, as Facebook became more widespread, its use seemed less than opportune. But now, with so many students already engaged before they even come to a university, perhaps it i...

Online social networks may be important avenues for building and maintaining social capital as adult’s age. However, few studies have explicitly examined the role online communities play in the lives of seniors. In this exploratory study, U.S. seniors were interviewed to assess the impact of Facebook on social capital. Interpretive thematic analysis reveals Facebook facilitates connections to l...

This study examines the potentials of social media marketing for luxury retailers. Social media marketing tactics of three luxury retail brands (Barneys New York, Net-a-Porter.com, and Saks Fifth Avenue) were examined across three major social media networks (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram). All posts by the three retailers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram were recorded over the course of a ...