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 Social Networking Overuse  By Anna LaRochelle and Monique LaBarre
SOCIAL NETWORKING! We all have used it at least once in our lives Facebook Twitter Texting AIM Youtube iTunes
THESIS STATEMENT Social Networking is an overused activity to the American society, and is a waste of time.
73% of all teens and young adults are a member of at least one social networking website The average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook Twitter has 24+ million unique visitors per month, with 500 million tweets per day DID YOU KNOW?
Users as of December 14th, 2010 Facebook: 133,623,529  MySpace: 50,615,444 Twitter: 23,573,178
DO YOU USE SOCIAL NETWORKING? OF COURSE YOU DO! Just by texting, you are using Social Networking Statistics have shown that the more Social Networking that you do, the less your social skills develop
SOCIAL NETWORKING Social Networking makes you care more about what others are doing and makes you stop living in the moment Your “News Feed” on Twitter or Facebook consists of updates from your “friends”  In most cases, you don’t know half of your friends
Facebook The main goal of many users is to simply have more Facebook friends than your friends do Generally speaking, once you get addicted to Facebook, you cannot get off People check their Facebook by the minute, seeing what others are doing In some cases, people get envious when they see that they weren’t invited to do something 50% of active Facebook users log on in any given day Everyday, 35 million statuses are updated
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There are over 50 million “tweets” per day
People are regaled by others statuses
You are basically stalking celebrities by following them and paying attention to what they do all day

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Social networking[anna and mo]

  • 1. Social Networking Overuse By Anna LaRochelle and Monique LaBarre
  • 2. SOCIAL NETWORKING! We all have used it at least once in our lives Facebook Twitter Texting AIM Youtube iTunes
  • 3. THESIS STATEMENT Social Networking is an overused activity to the American society, and is a waste of time.
  • 4. 73% of all teens and young adults are a member of at least one social networking website The average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook Twitter has 24+ million unique visitors per month, with 500 million tweets per day DID YOU KNOW?
  • 5. Users as of December 14th, 2010 Facebook: 133,623,529 MySpace: 50,615,444 Twitter: 23,573,178
  • 6. DO YOU USE SOCIAL NETWORKING? OF COURSE YOU DO! Just by texting, you are using Social Networking Statistics have shown that the more Social Networking that you do, the less your social skills develop
  • 7. SOCIAL NETWORKING Social Networking makes you care more about what others are doing and makes you stop living in the moment Your “News Feed” on Twitter or Facebook consists of updates from your “friends” In most cases, you don’t know half of your friends
  • 8. Facebook The main goal of many users is to simply have more Facebook friends than your friends do Generally speaking, once you get addicted to Facebook, you cannot get off People check their Facebook by the minute, seeing what others are doing In some cases, people get envious when they see that they weren’t invited to do something 50% of active Facebook users log on in any given day Everyday, 35 million statuses are updated
  • 9.
  • 10. There are over 50 million “tweets” per day
  • 11. People are regaled by others statuses
  • 12. You are basically stalking celebrities by following them and paying attention to what they do all day
  • 13. You follow people that you don’t know just because you think they look cool
  • 14.
  • 15. AS YOU CAN SEE Social Networking is a waste of time People should live in the now, and not be feckless caring about what others are doing Social Networking has a mainly negative impact on the American society Social Networking is an overused activity to the American society, and is a waste of time.