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**﻿CHAPTER 1 **
 * Title: ** Facebook and the effect to working adults


 * 1.0. Background of the Problem ****: **

Facebook is one of the most popular social network sites in the world. When Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook eight years ago, he has attracted teenagers in the first place, but now Facebook is not a just for a social media for the youngsters. It is also a meeting ground for all including fathers, mothers, and everybody.

Statistics shows that 70 per cent of Facebook users are from outside the United States. We in Malaysia are among the major users with more than 9.5 million Malaysians now are holding a Facebook account of which 45 per cent are male and 51 per cent are female. The rest did not state their gender.

Despite being one of the most popular networking website, Facebook do have several disadvantages towards its users. Most working adults spend a lot of time in Facebook that makes them less effective in their workplace. Indian firms are losing productivity because office staffs spend too long on social networking sites (BBC, 2009). Hence, some jobs will be done at the last minute and it get delayed. When working adults become addictive to Facebook, the productivity in the workplace goes down. Time is wasted on Facebook.


 * 2.0. Problem statement: **

There are a lot of reasons for working adults to use Facebook. Some of them do communicate each other through Facebook while others use the application such as playing games in Facebook.


 * 3.0. Objectives ****of research: **

The objectives of the research are to study: a) the kind of activities that working adults engaged on Facebook. b) the way of engaging on Facebook.


 * 4.0. Research questions: **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The research questions are; <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">a) what are the activities working adults engaged in Facebook? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">b) what are the ways of working adults engaged in Facebook?


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5.0. Significance of the study: **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The findings of this study will help to <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">gauge the productivity level of a company <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">. This study <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">will also provide preventive measures to curb or minimize the usage of Facebook.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6.0. Scope **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The respondents of this study are Facebook users among working adults.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">﻿**CHAPTER 2**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Literature Review **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students but as of July 2011 Facebook has more than 750 million active uses.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criticism **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Facebook has met with controversies. It was banned at many workplaces to prevent employees wasting their time on the site. For example, government employees in Ontario can no longer access Facebook, the popular social networking website, on their computers <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(thestar.com, 2007). This is because the staffers were spending too much time on the site during working hours, according to those behind the move.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> **CHAPTER 2**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Literature Review **

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students but as of July 2011 Facebook has more than 750 million active uses. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">According to a new University of Melbourne study, Dr Brent Coker, from the Department of Management and Marketing, says that workers who engage in ‘Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing’ (WILB) are more productive than those who don’t. “People who do surf the Internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office - are more productive by about 9% than those who don’t,” he says.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Criticism **

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Facebook has met with controversies. It was banned at many workplaces to prevent employees wasting their time on the site. For example, government employees in Ontario can no longer access Facebook, the popular social networking website, on their computers <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">(thestar.com, 2007) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">. This is because the staffers were spending too much time on the site during working hours. According to a new report from Nucleus Research an IT research company, the survey of 237 employees also showed that 77% of workers who have a Facebook account use it during working hours and an average of 1.5% lose in productivity.

Ok Firdaus, find out about the time (how long, which part of the day) the staff took to surf into FB? ~Siti

Here is a website that will help you answer this question: Click [|here]. 1. Why do employers are reluctant to allow social networking sites in the office? 2. What are some of the advantages of allowing social networking sites in the office?

Here is more statistics to show that FB is a waste of time at the workplace. Click [|here].

~Siti, 1 Aug 2011

Here is a link from Melbourne university on the benefits of FB for the workplace. Click [|here]. A link from BBC news on what Fb can do at the workplace. Click [|here]. One company uses FB to distribute info on company benefits. Click [|here].

Hospitals are using FB to talk to patients. Click [|here]. Government office use FB. Click [|here].

More reasons why FB is banned at the workplace. Click [|here]. About internal communication in an organisation. Click [|here].

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-decoration: line-through;">Amended Proposal

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Title:** Facebook <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(comment: your title need more key words. What do you think are other keywords found in your writing)

CHAPTER 1 <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Introduction:**

Background of the Problem

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Facebook is one of the most popular websites in worldwide. When Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: line-through;">since eight years ago, he has attracted teenagers in the first place, but now Facebook is not a just for a social media for the young. It is also a meeting ground for all including fathers, mothers, and everybody.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: line-through;">The <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">S tatistics shows that 70<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: line-through;">% <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">per cent of Facebook users are from outside the United States. We in Malaysia are among the major users <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: line-through;">whereby records show that <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">with more than 9.5 million Malaysians now <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">are hold<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">ing a Facebook account of whom 45<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: line-through;">% <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">per cent are male and 51<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: line-through;">% <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">per cent are female. The rest did not state their gender.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: line-through;">**Background of the problem:**

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Despite being one of the most popular networking website, Facebook do have several disadvantages towards its users. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Most working adults spend a lot of time in Facebook that make them less effective in their workplace. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(need citation) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-decoration: line-through;">When this problem occur <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hence, some job<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">s will be done <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-decoration: line-through;">in <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">at the last minute and <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-decoration: line-through;">some of it are <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">it get delayed. When the working adults become addictive to Facebook, the productivity in the workplace goes down. Time <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-decoration: line-through;">are <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">is wasted on Facebook.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Problem statement:**

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">There are a lot of <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-decoration: line-through;">purposes of <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">reasons for working adults to use Facebook. Some of them do communicate each other through Facebook while others use the application such as playing games in Facebook.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Objective<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">s of research:**

The objectives of the research are to study the ... <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-decoration: line-through;">To study the trend of using Facebook among working adults. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(improper sentence) 1. ... 2. ...  3. ...

The research questions are as follows:
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Research question<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">s : **

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1. What is the trend of using Facebook among working adults.<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">?

2. What do working adults engaged on in Facebook?

3. How do working adults engaged in Facebook?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Firdaus, based on our phone conversation, chapter 2 no longer discuss about your problem statement, what you intent to find out from your study (i.e. objective of research) or the significance of doing your study. Chapter 2 deals with your understanding of FB.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1. What do you understand about FB? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- what are the features in FB? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- why FB has attracted many users all over the world?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">These are the questions that you and Hanis should be able to have an answer to to learn and understand about FB.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2. What do you know about what FB is capable of doing to its users in the workplace? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- what it can do to the staff in a company? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- state the positive (if any) and negative effects (I'm sure there's plenty) of using FB in the workplace. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- what are some of the popular activities in FB that employees do?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- how do companies face staff using FB in the workplace? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- what are the policy of certain companies abt using FB in the workplace?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">These are some of the questions that need your investigation. Find the answers in other people studies/reports/newspaper cuttings. I'm sure you will discover more things abt FB once you've started your reading.


 * Tittle: Facebook **

**Introduction**

Facebook is one of the most popular websites in worldwide. When Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook since eight years ago, he has attracted teenagers in the first place, but now Facebook is not a just for a social media for the young. It is also a meeting ground for all including fathers, mothers, and everybody.

The statistics shows that 70% of Facebook users are from outside the United States. We in Malaysia are among the major users whereby records show that more than 9.5 million Malaysians now hold a Facebook account of whom 45% are male and 5% female. The rest did not state their gender.

Siti's feedback: These are interesting facts abt FB but what have they got to do with what you want to research on? BTW, from your intro, I'm not sure what's your focus. Let me read and comment what you wrote further.

Firdaus’s feedback:


 * ‍‍‍Background of the problem **

Facebook is one of the most popular websites in worldwide. When Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook since eight years ago, he has attracted teenagers in the first place, but now Facebook is not a just for a social media for the young. It is also a meeting ground for all including fathers, mothers, and everybody. The statistics shows that 70% of Facebook users are from outside the United States.

We in Malaysia are among the major users whereby records show that more than 9.5 million Malaysians now hold a Facebook account of whom 53% are male and 47% female. The rest did not state their gender. (see amendments at the top of this page)

In Malaysia It also shows that the Facebook users come from working adults. (citation) Working adults can describe as a person who works at a specific occupation and the age range between 18 to be 54 years old. Based on the statistic s, the working <span class="wsgeneralsuggestion" style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: line-through;">adult's  statistic in Malaysia shows that almost 77 % per cent of them are the Facebook users.

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**‍‍‍Background of the problem:**

‍‍‍The trend of using Facebook among adult students in the public Malaysian institution which leading to procrastination and addiction.

Siti's feedback: Here you are saying that FB can result in procrastination and addiction. To me it makes sense that FB can lead to addiction but how can it lead to procrastination. Where do you read about this?

Firdaus’s feedback:

Ignore this part.


 * Problem Statement: **

Why adult students in a public Malaysian institution spend a lot of time on Facebook.

Siti's feedback: Before, you mentioned about how FB brings about "procrastination" and "addiction" to adult students. Now in your problem statement, you did not mentioned about "procrastination" and "addiction" anymore. You state that adult students are spending a lot of time on FB.

Therefore, I see that you are trying to show how FB results in "procrastination" and "addiction" and causing students to "spend a lot of time in FB".

Firdaus’s feedback:


 * Problem Statement **

Effect of the Facebook its can be either make the working’s adult productivity going to low or high depending on how they utilize the Facebook in-term for entertainment social website or do for working purposes.If talking about lowest productivity among working’s adult, maybe they focus to utilize the application inside the Facebook instead of do the job’s task, but if talking about an increase the productivity, maybe they used Facebook for networking or as medium to do the task for working purposes.


 * Objective of research: **
 * 1) To study on how the effectiveness using Facebook as a social networking medium ‍among public Malaysian institution‍.
 * 2) To investigate what activities do these students do when logging in the Facebook.

Siti's feedback: Now here, the whole thing about "procrastination", "addiction" and "spending/wasting a lot of time in FB are lost. You want to look if students are abusing FB or using it appropriately.

** Hence, as an overall, are you trying to investigate what do users do in FB? Are they "spending too much time" in FB that they are not effective in the workplace - jobs are delayed and worked on at the last minute, staff are addicted to FB that productivity goes down etc... **

Is this what both of you are trying to say?

Firdaus’s feedback:


 * Objective of research **

To study on whether Facebook lowest the productivity of the staff in the workplace.

To study what workers do they do on Facebook in the office. Firdaus and Hanis: if you look at the objectives at the top of your wiki, would you like to accept them? If you do, you can still conclude (in chapter 5) whether Facebook users do contribute to low productivity at the workplace.

**__Reference:__**

__[|Do you have Facebook Addiction Disorder]__ __[|Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook]__ __[|Facebook comes of age]__ [|Facebook Ranking] [|Facebook Ranking in Malaysia] [|BBC News] [|Facebook banned for Ontario staffers] [|Facebook Has More Than 600 Million Users, Goldman Tells Clients] [|Ont. government employees blocked from Facebook] [|Facebook banned for council staff] [|Ontario politicians close the book on Facebook]