Monthly Archives: June 2019

capstone #5 Answering my main inquiry question

Hello. Today I will be talking about answering my main inquiry question to remind you my question is what are the positive and negative effects of social media on kids.

All my sub questions helped me answer my main inquiry question because they were each talking about a different aspect of social media’s effect on kids. My sub-questions were:

  • What is social media?
  • How does social media effect kids daily lives?
  • How does social media effect kids mental health?
  • How does social media effect kids physical health?
  • How does social media effect  kids communication?

The sub question that most helped me answer my main question was mental health and physical health because they had lots of information and most of the information was positive and negative witch answered my main question.

The hardest sub-question to answer was what is social media because there were so many answers to this question in my research so I had to take all my information and make an answer.

I learned so much from my information more then I ever thought. I got so much information on all my sub and main questions but I mostly learned about the positive and negative effects of social media on kids.

capstone #4 sitevist

for my site visit I went the Instagram and Facebook HQ to see all the Instagram and Facebook offices I took the subway to the NYC where I walked in the building and  saw all the offices.

I meet lots of people at my site visit one person I meet he use to work at twitter and now he as a blog that he works on and it very popular.

This site visit helped me answer my sub questions because most of the people I talked to said that kids care too much about likes and followers which helped me answer lots of sub-questions.

My site kept my opinion on social media the same because during my site visit I learned lots of things that I also mostly found in my research.

My site visit helped me answer my main inquiry question because I learned lot of positive effects of social media and the negative effects of social media.

 

 

capstone#3 interview

i interviewed Samantha Silverman. She is a journalist for a website called health magazine, she has researched, and wrote articles on social media’s effects on health.

Somethings that she told me on what her opinion is on the topic, she told my about some articles she wrote on social media. Also, how we could fix the negative effects. I asked her what the proper age is to use social media and she said, ”11”. This matched my research because my research claimed that 11 was the typical age to start using social media. But this also means that kids already start using social media at a young age.

This interview helped me answer my main and sub questions because I asked her small questions within my sub questions and and answers to those question help my get info on my main and sub question. One sub question that helped me was how does social media effect kids communication. She explained that kids can talk to each other more easily with social media, but they communicate less face to face.

This interview surprised me because she said that social media probably has the biggest effect on families. I had no idea it affected not only the kid or teen using social media, but their parents and siblings and people around them. This interview did not surprise me because she said that social media has big effects on mental health, which I already knew from my research. This interview really helped me get good information to answer my questions.

This interview changed my opinion on social media in some ways, and kept my opinion the same in other ways. This changed my opinion on social media’s effect on physical health because I didn’t realize that kids don’t exercise as much or sleep as much because they are on their phones. This kept my opinion the same on social media’s effect on mental health because my research showed the same information.