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Boyd D. M. & Ellison N. B. Social networks sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Wiley Online Library. 2007. Retrieved on 9th April 2016 from < http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x/full >

Social networks is a very wide topic that encompasses many other large subtopics. This article presents the definition, history and the scholarship of many social network sites. Examples of social network sites defined and explained in this article include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Yahoo Snap Chat and many others. A wealth of information is gathered from the history of the development and the creation of these many social network sites.

Researchers, parents, teenagers, and fancy-article-readers form the bulk of the audience for this article. The authors of this article present thorough research findings by various research foundations targeting technology and its global influence. This makes this research very extensive in terms of information to the reader. In addition to delving deep into the individual history of the network sites, Boyd and Ellison provide a sharp insight into the humble beginnings of social networks itself. This dates back to the year 1997 when the first network site was launched.

Also included are the challenges in the development of the social network sites. In comparison to the other sources, this article is very extensive regarding content and is also huge in a number of pages. There are just numerous aspects of the social network that is covered by this article. The huge size of the article also implies that the authors are based their arguments and facts on numerous sources of information. This accounts for the authenticity and validity of the information presented in the article.

Goff G. K. Social networking benefits validated. The Washington Times. 2009. Retrieved on 9th April 2016 from < http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/28/social-networking-benefits-validated/?page=all >

With a focus on research conducted at the University of Southern California and University of California at Berkeley, Goff (2009) says that there are more benefits that have been brought by social networking and that these benefits have also been validated. The benefits according to his views and the research, outweigh the one common problem alluded to social networking on children. People have often said that social network renders teenagers lazy given that they sit a lot when on social network platforms.

It is an extensive report on the research and other researches as well as testimonials from parents about the use of the social network concerning benefits. These testimonials will be very useful in providing views of people and especially parents on how the social network is changing their children. I will use this article to elaborate on the validated benefits of the social network.This article targets parents, teenagers and researchers of social networking. The title may insinuate the article as biased but on reading through the article, it emerges that it is clearly unbiased in content.

The article is more or less similar to the article by Thompson except on the grounds of the goals of the two articles. Here, the author presents findings that validate the benefits of social networks to the teenagers and the people around them while the article by Thompson only aims at communicating the benefits of social networks.

Kadushin C. Understanding Social Networks: Theories, Concepts, and Findings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.

Social network analysis is a very important process especially in marketing, entrepreneurship and global expansion of businesses (Kadushin, p. 217). In this book, the author presents a detailed explanation of the understanding and application social network analysis. He presents various data from a number of experiments, followed by analysis of the data and finally an exquisitely detailed discussion of the experiments. This book is a scientific aspect of viewing social network or a real life application of social network.

Businesses, organizations, researchers, fancy readers and educational institutions form that majority of the audience for this book. The only aspect of social network that is targeted by this book is the analysis alone. Just like in all experimental data, there are biases in this book especially in the collection of the data that is used for analysis. Environments and situations differ in many parts of the world but since this book analyzes data for particular locations, it can be deduced that the percentage of the biases is minimized.

In comparison to the rest of the sources here in, this book is different in the sense that it does not explore the obvious impacts of social network on the lives of people. Unlike the other sources, this book dwells on the scientific benefit of the social network.

Sparrowe R. T., Liden R. C. &Kraimer M. L. Social networks and the performance of individuals and groups. Academy Of Management. 2001. Retrieved on 9th April 2016 from < http://amj.aom.org/content/44/2/316.full.pdf+html >

In this article, the authors look at the impact that social network is having on the performance of the individuals and groups. For groups, the findings target employees who form a workforce for the organization. In this evaluation, the authors take a keen focus to study the impact of each social network site of individuals and groups.

The research is based on the submissions of five international organizations highlighting the impact, positive or negative, that social network has had on the performance of their workforces and employees. Given that the article looks at both cases of the impacts of social networks, it is deductive to say that it not bias. In comparison to the other sources, this article focuses on organizations and businesses just like the book by Kadushin. The target audience for this article are scholars, researchers, learning institutions and general article readers.

Thompson C. Teenagers and social networking – it might be good for them. The Guardian. 2013. Retrieved on 9th April 2016 from < http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/05/teens-social-networking-good-for-them >

This article is about the use of social network among the teenagers. Often parents complain that teenagers are too much involved in social networking that they even communicate with their parents via social network platforms such as texting, states Thompson (2013). Combining findings from past research works with his interviews, Thompson presents a comprehensive article that is very informative.

This article targets both parents and their teenagers as the audience. This can be gotten from the fact that the author both addresses the parents and some of the interviews were conducted on the teenagers. This article is not biased given that it addresses both the negative and positive impacts that the social network is having on teenagers. The numerous research findings cited in this article provides and an avenue for diverse opinions which are very useful for information.

Comparing to the other sources, this article presents recent information and is also sourced from recent research works. This implies, unlike the other sources this article presents a wealth of contemporary information that peers through contemporary social networking issues. The benefits of the social network as presented in this article are similar to those presented in the article by Goff.

Work cited

Boyd D. M. & Ellison N. B. Social networks sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Wiley

Online Library. 2007. Retrieved on 9th April 2016 from < http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x/full >

Goff G. K. Social networking benefits validated. The Washington Times. 2009. Retrieved on 9th

April 2016 from < http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/28/social-networking-benefits-validated/?page=all >

Kadushin C. Understanding Social Networks: Theories, Concepts, and Findings. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.

Sparrowe R. T., Liden R. C. &Kraimer M. L. Social networks and the performance of

individuals and groups. Academy Of Management. 2001. Retrieved on 9th April 2016 from < http://amj.aom.org/content/44/2/316.full.pdf+html >

Thompson C. Teenagers and social networking – it might be good for them. The

Guardian. 2013. Retrieved on 9th April 2016 from < http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/05/teens-social-networking-good-for-them >