Research Education 2011Group 41D

1.Statement of Objectives

2.Social Survey

3.Interview

4.Discussion

5.Conclusion

6.Q & A Session

To find out if to find out if social networking helps to improve peer-to-peer relationships.

To find out if type of social networking activity affects how much a person is able to improve his relationships.

To find out if addiction can be countered easily. To find out if addiction is a very big problem.

Less resources and time will be used to find out answers for these questions as they are sub-objectives.

We chose this topic as : We would like to change the public’s opinion of social networking. (which is

very very bad) We want to find out how social networking can benefit Rafflesians We want to create public awareness little research has been done to find out the benefits of social networking.

It is possible to carry out the project smootly as the aim of it is clear cut and understandable.

We will have a good sense of direction as we proceed on doing research. We expect this project to be a clean and successful one although we are

expecting difficulties.

The project will be completed according to the Research Education Schedule so that we will be able to complete our assignments on time.

We will do alot of group work researching and interviewing Rafflesians. We have anticipated difficulties but they should be minor problems.

Although sources of information are highly accessible, we think that there may be some problems as we may come across like inaccurate information acquired from primary sources or poorly researched, not trustable articles on the internet.

Daryl will tell you about the social survey process.

For the survey, we gave them out to our primary school friends and asked them to do them. We also posted it on survey monkey to ask our friends through facebook to go to the link and help us do the survey.

Then after a few days, we collected the results and put it into graphs. The results are as followed...

As you can see, most of the respondents spend around 1-5 hours a week on average.

Average amount of time spent on social networking sites a week.

From the results collected, it seems that most people chat half of the time on social networking sites.

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All the time. Half the time Half or less Never

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Portion of time spent on social networking sites chatting.

It shows that most respondents think that the impact is not significant.

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Very Frequently Half of the time Once in a while Never.

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Definitely Yes Maybe Yes Not a lot. Not at all.

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Wei Han will now tell you about the interview.

What is the purpose of our interview

It is to find more information on different people’s point of view on how social networking improves relationship with one another and to find out what one can do to improve the relationship with others through social networking. Certain information that will help us in the completion of the project like the interviewee’s point of view.

Daryl: What are you thoughts about social networking?Daryl’s mom: I think it can be very useful in daily life because it helps you to be connected with your friends, well like all things with too much of it, it will be harmful.Daryl: Is social networking beneficial or harmful?Daryl’s mom: In general, I think it is more beneficial.Daryl: How do you think social networking improves relationship with people?Daryl’s mom: Through social networking, you will be able to stay in constant contact with your friends, you will be able to keep in touch with them constantly and be updated about your friend’s life.Daryl: In your opinion, how does social networking relief stress?Daryl’s mom: Through social networking, you will be able talk to your friends when you are feeling frustrated, so you will be able to express you feeling rather than coop up everything to yourself, which is more harmful. And somehow via the internet you will be able to say things that you normally don’t dare to say in words.Daryl: Do you think the amount of time spent on social networking should be cut down? Why?Daryl’s mom: That actually depends on the situation, if, lets say, if during the school holidays of course you can spend a bit more time via social networking when everyone is free, but if you say ther is a project or lots of exams coming, then you definitely have to strike a balance and cut down time that you spend on social networking.

Daryl: Do you think cyber bullying is prevalent?Daryl’s mom: I think it is, especially among the teenagers.Daryl: Do you think social networking is the cause of cyber bullying?Daryl’s mom: I should think that it is the main cause through or via social networking but cyber bullying can also exist via blog and many other ways too.Daryl: How would you react if were a victim of cyber bullying?Daryl’s mom: As an adult, I would probably ignore because ,all these are not true, untrue postings, so I’ll probably just ignore the whole thing as it’s not worth my time. As people who know will know me as who I am, so they will not believe what those postings are too.Daryl: What do you thing could be done to curb one’s addiction to social networking?Daryl’s mom: The person need to be very disciplined and not spend too much time on social networking, got to strike a balance between everything he or she does.Daryl: To sum it up, do you think social networking has benifits?.Daryl’s mom: I think social networking has its own benefits.Daryl: Thanks.

The conclusions for our project are:

1) Social networking can be an addiction although it has benefits to one’s friendship with others.

2) Social networking can cause cyber-bullying but as long as one do not care about it, it will be not much of a problem.

3) Social networking will reach its optimum when one is able to strike a balance between studying and social networking.

Also, the time that one spend on facebook does not mean that he will have better relationship with others.

As can be seen from the graph below.