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 * Stage one Intergrated Learning.**

Started thinking of different topics to research.

 * ======Music ======
 * ======Dance ======
 * ======Psychology ======
 * ======Food ======
 * ======School (Private vs Public) ======
 * ======Smoking and Alcohol ======
 * ======Social Networking. ======

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I thought about how i could expand on these subjects and what sort of stuff I could research. Eventually I decided to do Social Networking. ======

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I was told by Mr Frankgos that Google are bringing out a new website called Google Plus. It's like facebook apparently, but with better features. I've decided that I will look further into this and find out what it is. ======

**Proposal.**
In the first week or two of this subject, I brainstormed a few ideas for my research. I came up with topics such as: •‍Music • Dance •‍Psychology •‍Food •‍School (Private vs Public) •‍Smoking and Alcohol •‍Social Networking. ‍I thought about how I could expand on these subjects and what sort of things I could research that were linked with these topics. Eventually I decided to do Social Networking and research how it became such a worldwide phenomenon, how each network changes and improves or lose popularity and also why people use it.I decided on Social Networking because it’s such a wide topic and had many different options for research. I thought about how I’d research this topic and decided using the internet would be a good option, also media sources are a good way to keep updates on what’s happening in the Social Networking world. I thought about creating a survey as well to get opinions from fellow peers.My plan was to research and learn about social networking over term 3. I kept a journal of things that seemed of interest to my topic. I also decided to create a survey to see what everyone thought of social networking. My results were pretty predictable, everyone that took the survey used social networking, the major site everyone used being Facebook. I also looked at the different social networking sites people used, mainly Facebook, Tumblr and the new network Google Plus. I spoke a bit about Google Plus and researched a few articles on what it was for and how it worked. I also found an article about Google’s staff members not using Google Plus themselves, including the Executive Chairman, who doesn’t even have an account.Throughout term 4, I started to put my research together and work out a question to base my essay on. We were also taught the six steps of RBL:
 * •‍Define the task- ** This means you understand exactly what the question is asking, so you know how to answer it really well.
 * •‍Locate information- ** This is the knowledge to know where to look and how to search efficiently, so that you'll find plenty of resources quickly and easily.
 * •‍Select resources- ** Choosing the best, most reliable information to use in your assignment.
 * •‍Organise notes- ** This is an important step as it will make writing your assignment easier. Organising your information into a good set of notes will help you plan out your final assignment.
 * •‍Present ideas- ** an the points you want to make, and decide how you want to make them. Leave the unimportant points out, you don’t want to add any unnecessary information into your assignment.
 * •‍Evaluate your work- ** it and polish all your work before you hand it in, to make sure your work is the best it can be.

My final product will be an essay and a small presentation on the history of Social Networking and how popular it is in today’s society.

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Studying and researching about Social Networking. Found a good website: [|Social Networking] ======

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Going to start by finding out what the most popular social networking sites are. I will conduct a survey to find out by other teenagers what social networking sites they use the most and how they use them. ======

Questions will include:

 * ======Do you use a social networking site? ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">If yes, which site? (include names of sites) ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Would you rather talk to someone over a social networking site or in person? ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Do you accept unknown people on social networking sites? ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How much time do you spend on a social networking site? ======

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Working on my survey and trying to come up with questions that could answer why and how people use facebook and other social networking sites. ======

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I learnt that the six steps are:

 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Define the task. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Locat information. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Select resources. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Organise notes. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Present ideas. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Evaluate your work. ======

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">You can organise you friends into groups and decide who can see what you're posting. It's very smart, and I think it's going to be the next facebook, and facebook will drown out like myspace did. ======

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Today I am starting to research the history of Social Networking. I am using the skills I learnt from Attatchment 4 (worksheet) that we did a few weeks ago. I found this chart from [|History of Social Network] ======



<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I realised that this doesn't include every Social Networking site, but it includes the main ones and when/where they originated. So basically, social networking is an online service that allows friends and others to socialise over the internet and create profiles about themselves to share with others. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Early social networking on the World Wide Web started in the form of generalized communities that were formed online such as Theglobe.com (1995), Geocities (1994) and Tripod.com (1995). In the late 1990s, social networking sites allowed user profiles which became a central feature. This let users compile lists of "friends" and search for other users with similar interests. New and updated social networking methods were developed by the end of the 1990s, and many sites began to create more advanced features for users to find and manage friends. This newer generation of social networking sites began to flourish with the website, SixDegrees.com emerging in 1997, followed by Makeoutclub in 2000, Friendster in 2002, which all soon became part of the Internet mainstream. Friendster was then followed by MySpace and LinkedIn a year later, and finally, Bebo. There was a rapid increase in social networking sites' popularity, by 2005, MySpace was reportedly getting more page views than Google! Facebook, launched in 2004, has since become the largest social networking site in the world.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Social networking is very addictive. Personally, I am connected to Facebook, Skype, Tumblr, Google Plus, Myspace (although I don't use it anymore). It is easy to become addicted to these sort of sites as everyone loves attention and drama or catching up with friends, flirting with the person they like etc. Humans are also social creatures, we like to have as many friends as we can. Also, social networking sites have games, and everyone loves to play a few games when they're bored or for entertainment purposes. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">“Any activity, action or emotion that fulfills at least three needs at a high level becomes, in effect, an addiction. Likewise, people have positive, negative and neutral addictions.” // Was said by Tony Robbins, a professional speaker. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">( <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Why Social Media is So Addictive // 2011, WiredPRWorks, accessed 12 November 2011, <http://wiredprworks.com/social-media-marketing/social-media-addictive/#>.) I thinkg
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 29/8/11 **

__//<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Myspace. //__<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> I think myspace has kind of turned into a band site. I've noticed that the only people on Myspace are band groups that are trying to become big in the music industry. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The pros and cons of Social Networking. I found a website that had a really good list of Pros and Cons for Social Networking. So this is their table. This is the website, it has some really good facts and statistics on a range of Social Networking sites: [|Social Networking Pros and Cons] This lesson I made a plan for my proposal. I wrote a list of things I'll try to complete within the next week or two so that then I can start working on a draft for my final essay.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 8/9/11 **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 12/9/11 **

Today I have figured out what question/theme for my essay. I will be focussing on the evoloution of social networking. How it started, how some sites became more popular than others, the difference between sites (mainly facebook and myspace) and why we use social networking.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 19/9/11 **

Currently looking for webpages and articles to print out about social networking.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday 22 **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**/9/11**

At the beginning of this week, Facebook was going through some layout changes. They have created a "cleaner" news feed and added a "ticker" (scrolling bar at the side to see friends' activities). They've also allowed facebook users to create groups to put your friends in, eg: close friends, family, school, work etc. (a bit like Google+). I think Facebook are very threatened by Google+ and are trying to make their site better so they don't become the new Myspace. However, most usuers are very angered by these changes and according to [|AllFacebook.com], “publicly visible status updates that complain appear to be going up as public status updates//** at least **// once every ten seconds.” I believe that change happens and people should get used to it, if they don't like the way Facebook is changing it's layout then go to another Social networking site. Also, Google+ has been released to public. However they have made the site available to only users over 18 years of age. "We are not allowing users under 18 years of age into Google+ until we're confident that we have the right teen safety features in place. We currently have no plans to open the product to users who indicate being under age 13," the company said in a written statement. Sites used today: [] [] [] [] []
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday 23 **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**/9/11**


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 26 **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**/9/11**

NSW Police Force is harnessing the Facebook phenomenon to engage with local communities, keeping them updated about local law enforcement matters and getting their help in solving and preventing crime. NSW Police Force already uses Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to provide information about policing, warnings about major incidents or disasters and crime prevention tips. They also use these sites to identify suspected criminal by publishing images.

The latest rumor circulating online asserts that Facebook will begin charging users for membership. The rumor is gaining traction due to a chain message hoax spreading virally, although the company promises "It's free and always will be." The rumour has been proven to be a hoax and Facebook will not be charging its users.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Facebook have changed the layout of their mobile website. They have made it easier to access notifications, inbox's, groups, and friend requests. I think this is a big positive for facebook as they are trying to improve their site after the recent backlash from the public due to recent changes on the desktop layout. Also Google+ have created a messaging system through Huddle (the chat program used for G+)
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 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 24 **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**/10/11- Friday 11/11/11**

The past few weeks I have been using each lesson to work on my proposal and my essay.