Does social networking break down or develop communities.

Purpose
The purpose of our question is to try and uncover the answer to wether or not social networking is helping build or break down society our aim is to show young people how social networking isn't always a benefit.

Our target audience

Our target audience will be people around about our age so we can get an insight on the younger peoples views and see how they are effected by these issues also it will be easy as we are in a school to gather people for our interviews. We also want to raise awareness among other children of our age.

Proposal

We as a group came up with a few ideas?.

• Does social networking effect our social skills?.
• Do social networks make it easy for cyber bullies?.
• Should social networks allow people to join with out varified age?.
• Does social networking break down or develop communities?. 

we decided on  Does social networking break down or develop communities? because we thought that it would raise a few issues that people are interested in not only that but we thought we could be a bit different and maybe do an interactive documentary.

PROS

• Would easily research the arab spring easily.
• Would easily research the London riots.
• Gives us the chance to do an interactive documentary.
• Facebook, Twitter, BBM and lots of other social networks directly link to our topic.
• Would be easy to get interviews with people who use Facebook almost everyone has one.
• Would create alot of publicity as they are both hot subjects.

CONS

• Might be hard to get permission to use video clips off other websites.
• Would be hard to interview people who were possibly involved in the London riots because people could lie.
• Some people might not know what the arab spring is so we would have to use time quickly explaining.
• We are going to make a twitter account to record some results this will really backup some of our ideas.

primary research needed

• interview people.
• surveys to get quantitive results.
• finding statistical data.
• books

We would gather a few people and ask them questions about what they think about how they think communities are joined together and how they recognise this then we would ask them if they think that social networking effects the togetherness of the communities.

We would send out some surveys asking people around the school questions  about social networking.

we can very easily find out and put together statistics off the internet about how many people use social networking and how many people like or dislike social networking.

We would pick out certain bits of evidence from books then put them together to form 

Secondary research

• News paper articles
• internet
• The news on tv
• what  experts have said