Social Media Sites and Writing

How social media websites are influenced by writing in this generation.

Over the years I have made many social media websites for example; Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr, as I'm sure many people my age have done as well. Throughout these websites I have seen a change in the way people write and how Facebook event are made into survey groups to help individuals with homework, etc. Myself included has also used Twitter and/or Facebook to get other peoples opinions on a particular topic I had to research on. I want to find out if people use these websites to get information regarding homework but also see if writing status, tweets, blogs, etc in their own personal way of writing has effected their writing when it comes to writing essay papers for school.

Information I would need to gather for this research topic would be people I plan on interviewing, how often they use social media, and why they think/ or don't think it could be help/hurtful when relating it to school work/homework.

Facebook, Twitter, other social media sites, examples of these "events" and status to prove my analysis. Along with this article I read and thought was helpful  http://rebeccamurtagh.com/influence-of-social-media/ . I still have a lot of research to do but this is where I'm starting.

I plan on studying different social sites along with the profiles in these sites. I also plan on interviewing a few different people that use these sites and see how they interact with other users when it comes to writing.

I will collect information from interviews and observations.

I plan on studying between 5-10 subjects and profiles.