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Analyzing the Impact of Social Media on Users


Sameen Fatima, Umar Manzoor, Bassam Zafar and Mohammed A. Balubaid

In recent years, social media has become more and more popular because it is playing an important role in empowering citizens, organization of community activism, social good and even used for coordination in emergency situations. The social media has become integral part of the current generation. In this study, we aim to analyze the influence of social media on the users. This study indicates that the social media has huge effect on the users. It is very beneficial to the current generation in multiple fields which includes education, E-commerce, marketing / advertisement, communication and social good, however, it also depicts that the information sharing on social media by the users lead to many privacy issues. Therefore, the social media users should be very careful in sharing information as it can be wrongly manipulated.

Keywords: Social Media, Social Network, Impact On users, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sameen Fatima
Sameen Fatima is currently doing her MS in Computer Science from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Umar Manzoor
Umar Manzoor received the B.S. degree in Computer Science, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, and the Ph.D. degree in Multi-Agent Systems from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, in 2003, 2005, and 2011, respectively. In Feb 2006, he joined the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan, as a Lecturer and promoted after as an Assistant Professor. In Aug 2012, he was promoted as an Associate Professor; currently he is working at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has published extensively in the area of multi-agent systems, autonomous systems, behaviour monitoring, network management/monitoring which appeared in journals such as Expert Systems with Applications, Applied Soft Computing, Data and Knowledge Engineering and Journal of Network and Computer Applications.

Bassam Zafar
Bassam Zafar received his BS in Electronic Engineering and Communication, his MS in Information Technology and his PhD in Computer Science from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, Manchester, UK, in 2003, 2004 and 2008 respectively. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudia Arabia.

Mohammed A. Balubaid
Mohammed A. Balubaid is currently working as Assistant Professor at Industrial Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia


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