Topic proposal

The topic I chose to do research on is today's teens and how they are affected by social media. This topic is important because social media is such a big thing that so many people use. The majority of people who use social media are teens and I want to do research on how it can effect their lives negatively/positively. Two research questions that can be used for this topic are how does social media affect teens self-esteem? or What are the affects of social media on body image?
For my research I plan to make a survey on google forms that has a variety of questions about my topic. I will send this survey to a big sample of people so I can receive a variety of feedback.

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  1. UnknownOctober 17, 2018 at 9:42 AM

    good open ended questions, and the form of research will work for this topic

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