Summary of Research

The whole point of my research project was to understand how much social media really affects an individual psychologically. As a group we wanted to understand the role that social media plays on political participation. Over time the reliance on social media for political news has grown very rapidly. People use all these different forms of social media in order to get news about the things going on around them, but they may not do research on it for themselves. 

In the end it seems social media doesn't take as much as a psychological toll on an individual as I thought it would. Individuals spend time on their social media accounts but claim to not be affected by the things that they see or the demands of social media. Although individuals had different views of what exactly social media is to them, most results were pretty much the same.