Audience

The text I am currently focusing on is Facebook.

This social website currently has more than 400 million active users
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

This graph shows the UK demographics of Facebook users, categories by age and gender as of June2010. http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/06/08/whos-using-facebook-around-the-world-the-demographics-of-facebooks-top-15-country-markets/

Final Idea.

"How do teenagers use social networking websites in their everyday lives?"

Texts:

The main social website i will be focusing on is Facebook, this is one of the popular website amongst teens at the moment. In addition, i will also be look at the rise of Twitter and how this is claiming a large amount of Facebook users.

Media Theories:

The uses and gratifications theory.

Coursework Ideas.

1) The impact of social networking on teenagers.

2) To investigate the affect of size 0 models (due to how they are shown in the media) on the rise of eating disorders.