HOW DO TEENS SPEND THEIR TIME ON FACEBOOK?

Background Information Facebook• Worldwide social network service and

website• 500 million active users today• Can also be used on, cell phones, iPod

touches, and iPads etc.• One can do many things on Facebook

-Games/Apps-Chatting-Browsing walls or people

Purpose

How do teens spend their time on Facebook?

How much time do they spend on each activity while on Facebook?

Variable Control within the Purpose

Independent Variable: The day the study is conducted on (Wednesday and Saturday)

Dependent Variable: The amount of time the participants spend on activities on Facebook and what activities they pursue on Facebook

Hypothesis It is hypothesized that more of the

participants will go on Facebook on Saturday than on Wednesday and most of them spend their time checking their news feed and wall-posting on their friend’s walls.

Procedure Create survey. Distribute survey out to participants online. Analyze results from survey. Create journal diary Ask participants to start logging on their first

journal diary on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011.

Ask participants log on their second journal diary on Saturday, January 8th, 2011.

Record results given from participants. Organize data in data tables.

Data Results(Survey)

How Often Do You Go on Facebook?

FrequentlyBarelyOccasionally

Survey Results

Computer or laptop Ipod Cell Phone Iphone or Ipad0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

What technical device do most teens use while going on

Facebook?

Technical DeviceNu

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Journal Diary

Wednesday Journal Diary Results

Participant

Most Productive

Activity While on Facebook

Least Producti

ve Activity While on Faceboo

k

Time Spent on

Most Producti

ve Activity

Time Spent on

Least Producti

ve Activity

Total Time Spent

on Faceboo

k

1 Reading News Feed

Playing Games/Apps

5 minutes 0 minutes 11 minutes

2 Chatting Browsing Profiles

45 minutes 5 minutes 1 hour and 30 minutes

3 Chatting Browsing Profiles

40 minutes 5 minutes 55 minutes

4 Reading News Feed/Chatting

Looking at pictures

35 minutes 10 minutes 45 minutes

5 Wall-posting Inbox(messages)

10 minutes 5 minutes 15 minutes

6 Chatting/Reading News Feed

Joining groups 30 minutes 2 minutes 1 hour and 30 minutes

Journal Diary

Saturday Journal Diary Results

Participant

Most Productive

Activity While on Facebook

Least Producti

ve Activity While on Faceboo

k

Time Spent on

Most Producti

ve Activity

Time Spent on

Least Producti

ve Activity

Total Time Spent

on Faceboo

k

1 Checking messages/

Reading News Feed

Playing Games/Apps

15 minutes 0 minutes 26 minutes

2 Chatting/Reading News Feed

Browsing Profiles

55 minutes 20 minutes 1 hour and 45 minutes

3 Chatting Browsing Profiles

20 minutes 10 minutes 55 minutes

4 Reading News Feed

Looking at Pictures

20 minutes 15 minutes 40 minutes

5 Wall-Posting Chatting 20 minutes 5 minutes 25 minutes

6 Chatting and Checking News

Feed

Playing games 3 hours 30 minutes 3 hours and 33 minutes

Data Interpretation Plan Facebook Survey-Participants opinion on

Facebook and how they regularly use Facebook

Online Journal Diaries used to collect their activity on Facebook

Pie Charts and data tables used to organize data collected

Results On the Wednesday journals: - Most productive activity: chatting or reading their news feed

- Least productive activity: browsing the profiles of their friends -Total time the participants spent on Facebook ranged from eleven minutes to one hour and thirty minutes.

On the Saturday journals:-Most productive activity: chatting and reading their news feed - Least productive activity :browsing their friends’ profiles or playing the games that are offered on Facebook - Total time the participants spent on Facebook ranged from twenty-five minutes to three hours and thirty-three minutes.

Survey Results:-participants rate Facebook, overall on how they felt about Facebook, an average of a 7 out of 10- Most participants said that they went on Facebook because they had nothing better to do rather than because it was fun or that they wanted to go on Facebook just because everyone else does.

Conclusion

Hypothesized that more of the participants will go on Facebook on Saturday than on Wednesday and most of them will spend their time checking their news feed and wall-posting on their friend’s walls.

Proven and disproven hypothesis Data shows that 5 out of 6 participants who went on

Facebook on Saturday spent more time on Facebook than on Wednesday

On both Wednesday and Saturday, 5 out of the 6 participants mostly spent time on checking their news feed or chatting with their friends

Paticipants didn’t have their time limited on Facebook Most participants had 1-2 hours of extracurricular

activities and 1-2 hours of homework

Conclusion (Continued…)

Errors:-Participants might not be very willing to do project-Participants may have not filled in the data correctly or completely-Some participants did not fully comprehend what to do

Improvements:-Participants could have been given some incentives-Make project easier and shorter with some advice given from participants-Elaborate more;have some additional peers look over work

Future work:-the comparison of the amount of time students spend IM'ing or chatting online versus the use of talking on their cell phones

Literature

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CBSNews.com poll- teens spend almost three hours a day on Internet; for many teens, checking Facebook is 1st and last thing they do each day

Science Daily: Facebook or Myspace, Youths’ Use Reflect Face-to Face Interactions- study conducted and results show youth were more likely to use social media as extension of positive friendship

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