For my Twitter Expert Connect Assignment I mainly focused on social media and its different parts and jobs such as being a sociologist or a social media manager. I found 10 people on Twitter that were involved in that area and used them as sources for my project. I followed people like @87Retweet because they specifically was focusing on their business as specialists in the food, drink and hospitality industry.

I wanted to know how did their business begin and what was really the starting point to this success. I asked my questions politely by greeting at first, introducing my project, asked the questions and then thanked them in advance. This kind of information could help me in the future if I was to start a social media business company, page or marketing. If not then it’s still really good information to have.

 

This person not only gave me answers but also directed me towards other sources such as @87Tangerines. Both pages have the same focus and both also followed me back. After getting my responses I tried to keep the conversation going by asking other questions or asking for requests and other sources. @87Tangerines tagged me in a couple posts that involved information that I could use for my assignment. I have gotten a response from 5 different people and one of the 5 individuals even DM me and proposed a website that could help which did.

It was overall a very nice experiment that helped me a lot for my Twitter Expert Connect Project. This assignment could be used in the future in school because I have already learned the process and other project similar to this one will be easier.

 

 

For my Genius Hour project, my topic was Smartphones. I chose to do my project about smartphones because we all know that this generation is very attached to technology. Teenagers have become addicted to being on their phones and technology is slowly taking over humanity and I wanted to bring awareness to that by doing this project.

My research question was: How has smartphones changed the world and what was the difference that occured since the first smartphone appeared? With this project, I learned a lot about technology today and about the evolution of smartphones throughout the years. I have researched and dug into the topic and found some interesting facts and information about smartphones. I learned about what technology is doing to teenager nowadays and watched reports and interviews on different point of views from teenagers, kids and adult. Various different ideas and POV’s have been brought up and it was fascinating to hear about their various perspectives. This project did not help me grow as a person or student but I did realize how technology is affecting society and how humanity is dying right below our eyes. I figured a way to try and bring back humanity and put together the broken pieces was for our community to spend time together and interact with each other  without our smartphones, iPad or computers being in the way all the time.

It is true that technology is present in our everyday surroundings now. It does eventually have a positive effect but the down- sides can not be forgotten. We have teenagers completely addicted to their phones and some go mad at the fact that they can’t use it. Apps such as snapchat, instagram, facebook and many more are taking over and are taking away the small amount of hope we have. Before the appearance of smartphones, life was way more easy because people didn’t worry about what phone they had or cared about where were their phones because it didn’t matter but now phones has become our only source of entertainment and we can’t spend more than 5 hours without looking at our phones which is going to make it hard for the kids to grow up in such an addicted society. Kids are immediately revealed and exposed to this world of technology and don’t even consider going out and interact with nature. When it comes to technology, a lot of areas are affected such as your sleep, the prices rising as new devices are being released and many more.

For all that being, a change needs to be made and for that to happen we all need to take a stand.