By Jack Hedges

SOCIAL MEDIA SITES AND CHILDREN

MY REASON

My reason for choosing this question was to see if KS3 students listened to what they were told online

My research question was:DO AGE RESTRICTIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AFFECT USAGE OF CHILDREN?

THEY WEREN’T HAPPY.

THE METHODI handed out questionnaires to gather my info.

ANALYSIS OF DATA

QUANTATIVE DATA Qu.1-Are you on a social media site?The graphs show that more boys are on social media sites than girls

Qu.2-Do you obey the age restrictions ?The graphs show that people felt okay to say that they ignored the age restrictions .

Qu.8-Do you listen to the advice of online safety?

The graphs show that some people don’t listen to the advice there are given.

Girls

Boys

(YEAR 7)

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

Q.1 Q.2 Q.8

Yes

No

Don't know

0

2

4

6

8

10

Q.1 Q.2 Q.8

Yes

No

Don't know

QUANTATIVE DATA (YEAR 8)

Q1 Are you on a social media site?The graphs show that all of the year 8 boys are on social media sites.

Q2. Do you obey the age restrictions?The graphs show that the numbers didn’t really go up from year 7.

Q8.-Do you listen to the advice of online safety?

The graphs show that people are still not listening to the advice they are given online.

Qu.1 Qu.2 Qu.80123456789

10

YesNoDon't Know

Boys

Girls

Qu.1 Qu.2 Qu.802468

101214

YesNoDon't Know

QUESTION 4WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT AGE RESTRICTIONS?

Good protection

37%Mixed

opinion26%

Ignore26%

Enforced4%

Other7%

QUESTION 5ARE YOU ON A SOCIAL MEDIA SITE IF SO WHICH ONES AND WHY?

Faceb

ook

Twitter Kik

Ask.Fm

Instag

ram

Snapc

hat

Other

05

1015202530

Qu.5

Qu.5

Easy to use

Talk with friends

Have fun Keep up to date

02468

1012

Qu.5 reason

Qu.5 reason

QUESTION 6IF YOU DON’T HAVE AN ACCOUNT WHY?

Not allowed Other No time0

1

2

3

4

5Qu.6

QUESTION 9WHAT COMPELLED YOU TO GET AN ACCOUNT?

socialpeer pressure

have fun

wantedaacount

other

0

5

10

15

20

25

QUESTION 10IF YOU DON’T HAVE AN ACCOUNT WHAT WOULD COMPEL YOU TO GET ONE?

Qu.10

Peer Pressure

43%

Social43%

Wanted one14%

QUANTATIVE DATA (YEAR 7)

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

Qu.3 Qu.7

SD

D

NA

SA

Q3 “Age restrictions are useful”Q7 “Social media sites should only be used for talking to ‘real’ friends”

QUANTITATIVE DATA (YEAR 8)

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

Qu.3 Qu.7

SD

D

NA

SA

Q3 “Age restrictions are useful”Q7 “Social media sites should only be used for talking to ‘real’ friends”

MY CONCLUSION

I have realised that the basis for this research question is that ‘Do Key Stage 3 students do as they’re told?’ which (if you ask any of the teachers near you) the answer is most of the time no. But they do realise online safety is for their own good and so they don’t do anything that gets themselves seriously hurt or in a lot of trouble.

Thank You

Any Questions?