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happy birthday, buddy, and congratulations on turning awesome 21 today! may this beautiful age be the beginning of several decades of happiness and great accomplishments for you
happy birthday, buddy, and congratulations on turning awesome 21 today! may this beautiful age be the beginning of several decades of happiness and great accomplishments for you

google scholar citationssince the last few decades technology has grown immensely and has brought major changes globally. communication barriers have been reduced through technological advancement and new mediums are being introduced to connect global audiences. social networking has become an international trend and has spread its reach to almost every corner of the world. with these advancements a major concern arises as in this age of huge technological development social networking sites are becoming more and more popular among students especially in pakistan. statistics for 2011 suggested that around 20,431,000 pakistanis were using internet on a regular basis (dawn, 2011) social media is a phenomenon that has been developing in a rapid pace. different scholars have described it in a different way and as jacka and scott (2011: 5) say “there is no single recognized definition of social media”. drury (2008: 1) defines social media as “online resources that people use to share content: video, photos, images, text, ideas, insight, humor, opinion, gossip, news”. safko and brake (2008) further defined social media as “activities, practices, and behaviors among communities of people who gather online to share information, knowledge, and opinions using conversational media. conventional media are web-based applications that make possible for one to create and easily transmit content in the form of words, pictures, videos, and audios”. different researcher explained their perspective regarding social media and we support drury’s definition as it explains the role of social media in a precise statement. social media has certainly became a global platform where sharing data internationally has become an international trend. there are handfuls of studies showing negative relationship between facebook and its impact on academic performance including one which suggests how children with lower attention span focused more on facebook and children with higher attention span spent less time on facebook (paul, baker and cochran, 2012). according to a survey conducted in 2014 there were 15.4 million people using facebook which represented 8.5 percent of the total population (haque, 2014). however, with these advancements a major concern arises as in this age of huge technological development social networking sites are becoming more and more popular especially among students usage of internet has also been associated with physical and mental health as well as can have adverse impact on family life. according to akhtar (2013) excessive usage of internet can become an addiction especially among students and it can cause academic problems. the author suggested that internet addiction can cause a fall in time spent on studies, major drop in grades, low interest in extracurricular activities and lack of interest in classes. moreover, internet addiction among children has been associated with psychological and mental problems such as anxiety, depression and the feeling of loneliness. in certain researches social media has depicted a positive academic interaction and scholars have supported internet usage among students. however, adverse impact of social media has outweighed the positive aspects. first, excessive usage of social media has shown negative impact on student’s physical, psychological and family health. moreover, excessive usage has also been associated with sleep deprivation, insomnia and chronic illnesses (o’keeffe and pearson, 2011).
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