Assessing assessments

I need a book and a journal article, p460 inventing arguments

I think i have, my resources have met the requirements and are all very helpful. I do need more than what i have, however I think i will be able to manage.

Research resource image

This is a pie chart of the ages of people that use facebook. This is a very useful source because it shows that the majority of people that use facebook are young adults, meaning that the majority of those 70 million facebook users are young adults.

Resources reflection

How did you find your resources?

I went on the san jose library website and used databases such as search premier. I used an interview in which I interview 20 of my friends that use facebook. I got this idea from you during our 15 minute meeting and I simply asked 20 people at random that had facebooks. I also went on google and looked for articles and such.

How has research altered your original idea?

My research has made me narrow my thesis in terms of the age of the people I am focusing on. Other than that it has not really altered my idea.

Research Newspaper

For teens, a friend online is usually a friend offline, too

04/02/2009
usa today
Sharon Jayson

This newspaper article talks about the fact that people that use facebook to interact with friends that they already no, and not strangers which helps me prove my point that it keeps friends connected, despite geographically distances.

Research Magazine article

Clive Thompson. (2008, September). I'M SO TOTALLY, DIGITALLY CLOSE TO YOU. New York Times Magazine,42-47. Retrieved April 20, 2009, from ProQuest Newsstand database. (Document ID: 1553321261).

THOMPSON, CLIVE
I'M SO TOTALLY, DIGITALLY CLOSE TO YOU.

This is an article that tells about how people could post a simple description their day or something along those lines and multiple of friends could comment, no matter where they were geographically, bringing them a little closer to each other through sharing personal tid bits

research personal interview

I am doing a survey with 20 of my friends that use facebook.
My main purpose for this survey is to find out how often and how long they use facebook to make the point that young adults check their facebook much more often than their emails.

Research Questions

Old thesis: Social Networking sites help bridge geographical distances between friends and allow an easier mode of communication.

-add "between them" after communication.

How does Facebook help reconnect people?
Who has a Facebook?
What do people use Facebook for?
Focus on the student to student relationship via facebook.