I am very excited to be getting my ideas together for my Social Media Investigation Project. Since I spend a good amount of my time on Facebook, this is just my type of assignment where I can investigate my Facebook friends.

The social media outlet I have chosen is Facebook. The idea I am going to do is adults on Facebook and how they only use social media to brag about their children, and share information about their children's lives on there. I chose to investigate 5 different people, one of them being my mother, and one of them being my aunt. The other three people are my friend's parents that are my Facebook friend's that I also found common themes within their statuses.

I am currently working on reading the sources that Professor Mangini found for me (thanks! :)) so I can choose one or two that back up my argument that adults are on Facebook to brag. Once I narrow down my sources, they will add more information to my paper, as well as making me sound more credible if I have information to back up what I am saying about my argument.

All in all, I am ready to start my paper for my SMI, once I narrow down my resources!

Rutgers researchers classify 80 percent of Twitter users as "meformers" meaning that these people mainly only tweet about themselves. When I go on social networking sites, I would have to say that I agree with the statement of a "meformer."

On my personal social networking sites, I know that I tend to talk about myself a lot more than I probably should. On my social networking sites such as Twitter I know I tweet a lot of "I" statements such as "I have so much homework to do." or "I am so stressed." I guess I really never thought about it as tweeting about myself!

Some trends I see on social networking sites is that people like to let others know about what they are doing, because if you don;t tweet it, Facebook it, or Instagram it, did it really happen?

In one of our articles that we read, it said, " I've heard both job seekers and employers wonder aloud about what it means if a job candidate doesn't have a Facebook account. Does it mean they deactivated it because it was full of red flags? Are they hiding something?"
With this question, I do believe that people deactivate their Facebook's most of the time because they are hiding something. My boyfriend and all of his roommates deactivated their Facebook's last spring because they are all graduating from Temple University this May. They all felt as though their Facebook's were not a true representation of them because they had a lot of pictures of them at parties and what not. Yes, that is them on the weekends in college, but that is not what their lives revolve around. My boyfriend is an engineering major and deleted his because he was applying to jobs all last summer. He already got hired before he even graduated, and his employers did not question why he did not have a Facebook. In his case, I believe not having one was more beneficial for him.

For myself, I still have my Facebook because I do not have any pictures on there of me at parties, or anything that would make me look suspicious to future employers. I still use my Facebook to communicate in a group for my honor society, and for class purposes. I like using my Facebook to communicate with my friends at different colleges, and my classmates about our assignments. Facebook can be useful if you use it the right way.

When I apply for a job, I will still have my Facebook. I do not think my "Facebook Image" is any different from the way I am in real life. Everything on there is a true representation of myself and most of the time I am talking about school anyway.