Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Feinstein, B. A., Bhatia, V., Hershenberg, R., & Davila, J. (2012). Another Venue for Problematic Interpersonal Behavior: The Effects of Depressive and Anxious Symptoms on Social Networking Experiences. Journal Of Social & Clinical Psychology, 31(4), 356-382

In this study, Feinstein et al. consider that social networks are seamlessly integrated with Internet landscape. The largest of them, Facebook has over 600 million registered users worldwide. As for Twitter, it has recently surpassed 200 million users. In recent years there has been a growth of dating sites social networking. Shown markedly by comparing the number of search engine Google on the four busiest sites in April 2010 (behind Google), Facebook is one which. Similarly, to realize that the phenomenon is not only valid for Facebook, you can compare dating Twitter and sites close to him in the ranking of most visited sites in April 2010.

Kuss, D., & Griffiths, M. (2011). Online social networking and addiction--a review of the psychological literature. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health, 8(9), 3528-3552

The study by Kuss & Griffiths (2011) noticed the explosion of dating, compared with sites from the second half of 2008. Most recently - in 2011, the trend is towards stagnation. This can be understood as the cumulative effect of two factors. The number of Facebook users, the site's biggest, has more than one third of the total number of people accessing the Internet worldwide (1.8 billion). Thus, these comparisons of orders of magnitude show that the margin of change in the number of users of social networks is becoming weaker. It may well be aware of the proportion of users of social networks among users. Social networks are now known to Internet users. The upsurge in the number of users of social networks linked to an effort of communication and advertising from these sites is less important.

Huilin, X., Weifeng, L., Xubin, C., & Zongming, T. (2012). The Online Social Networks on Knowledge Exchange: Online Social Identity, Social Tie and Culture Orientation. Journal Of Global Information Technology Management, 15(2), 4-24

In this study, Huilin et al. (2012) analyzed that if using social network sites is no longer in a phase of explosive growth, the number of social networking sites continues to grow strongly. Indeed, if one refers to the number of licenses social networking applications filed in recent years in the U.S., the main countries hosting these sites, the increase is evident.

There has-been rapid growth in the number of U.S. patent applications covers new technologies that related to social networking. The number of published applications has been growing at about 250% per year over the past five years. There are now over 2000 published applications.

Number of licenses for the application of social networking published annually in the U.S. and conflicts License. However, despite the creation of new areas, Facebook remains the reference network in most countries of the world:

Here is the part of social networks as a percentage of total number of hours spent on the Internet worldwide in 2010: In addition to being ...