Data Post 2: Research Update


For my research I have reached out to my twitter followers and my Facebook friends to seek those that have taken a break from any social media cites. Taking data from users of twitter and Facebook gave me a better variety of participants as my twitter is primarily composed of people in their 20s and my Facebook friends list gave me the opportunity to reach out to former teachers, family friends, my grandmas friends, so I had a lot of diversity. I found that adults took a break to better focus on face to face interactions while the people in their 20s took breaks to focus more on school while some took a break due to cyber-bullying and comments from others. Some informed me that they didn't take a break but combed through their friends list and added filters to what they could and couldn't see in their feed.I think this helps show how invested we are in social media but allowing yourself to take that step and control your friends list shows that we still have a self control on what we allow ourselves to see.

After posting twitter responses as to why users took a hiatus from social media, I was able to post these responses to Facebook to see if public school teachers, public school teachers who are also parents and parents, could weigh in on the trends. There was a pretty common consensus that the distraction of cell phones continues to increase drastically but the reactions, when asked to put phones away, varies from student to student.

In addition, I was able to have a face to face conversation with someone who has quit social media and have found journals and articles from others that did the same.
After doing this I was curious to see how much time people spent on social media apps based on the percent of their battery they used and what the preferred social media cite was among different individuals and what they had in common. I once again reached out to twitter and Facebook for this. I had much more responses for this than the break from social media question. I have intense amounts of data for this from a very diverse group of ages.For most it seemed that music or apps that involved streaming consumed most battery life. But in regards to social media, the older users seemed to spend more time on facebook while the battery consumption for other social media apps varied from people closer to my age. But in most observations a social media app was the first or second app that hogged battery life. A better way to collect this data would have been to then have participants click on the clock to the right of the battery usage tab to see the actual screen time on each of these apps. Which I suppose is still something I have time to do.

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