This first image displays the main focus of my research. I am looking for numbers and statistics that display what makes Facebook so appealing or unappealing. Why do people use Facebook, what makes those 250 million people log in each day? Facebook often updates their site to work better or look better but not everyone is always happy with those new updates but they get used to them. I have written and posted a survey to better research the people around me and how they use facebook. If you could please fill it out that would be great! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TCBT8TR
Facebook constantly updates their page to make things “easier and more accessible” including updates that were just established this past weekend. Allowing for more multitasking and publishing the new pop-up status updating bar does more than just update your status, it adds photos videos and even life events to your page all without having to travel to your profile page. Little things like this are what makes Facebook so appealing to others and is most important to my project. Knowing the demographics is what my project is about, reaching the world in the best ways we can think to communicate.
So far the research that I have done is relevant to now and then. Since Facebook changes so often it is important to stay on top of the changes and document them while they change and what caused them to change. All of this research is significant because it is on sociology and that has become more and more prevalent now than ever. Media sites, like Facebook and Twitter, are used everyday by millions of people and something that reaches that many people is very important because we have deemed it important. We need to know why it works for people, why it holds our interests, or in some cases doesn’t.
Ultimately the goal of this project is to find ways to better develop Facebook due to peoples’ own personal interest in the site. By changing certain aspects of Facebook will it help or hurt the number of people that access the site. Will minor changes affect the amount of times a day that a person will access Facebook. I know this is a hard topic and I really can’t study this myself but I want to try to look at different updates Facebook has made and get feedback on why they are good or bad.