Blog #2

My three steps for my inquiry project are:

1. Find how long people use social media daily. This will help me determine how much of their day people use on social media instead of doing other things such as studying or homework.
2. Find what people are doing when they use social media. This will tell me if they are being productive or if they are using social media to waste time or for entertainement purposes.
3. Find out what content different social media platforms contain and what features they use to keep people fixated on their feeds and content. This will be useful to determine how much of the content is productive and what percentage of people use this content. This will also

Five valid sources are:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/433871/daily-social-media-usage-worldwide/#:~:text=How%20much%20time%20do%20people,minutes%20in%20the%20previous%20year.

https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2023-deep-dive-time-spent-on-social-media

https://buffer.com/resources/psychology-of-social-media/

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/social-media-content/492311/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/effect-social-media-productivity-gertrude-c-chombo#:~:text=Research%20shows%20that%20social%20media,key%20to%20striking%20a%20balance.

This question will have implications to other individuals or my community because it will show if using social media, which many people use is actually beneficial to their mental health, their work, and their productiveness. It will also help encourage them to either use more social media, or use less of it.