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running social media sites, Facebook has seen a downfall in popularity after facing

scandals about data security and fake news. 10 years after its introduction,

Instagram is now starting to take over Facebook after coming in first place for

social media preference amongst teens. Facebook and Instagram have a huge

difference which makes popularity really different too. However, some students at

SKIS were more inclined to using Facebook, and others to using Instagram. Our

group was inspired to find out which app high school students at SKIS preferred

more.

2. Experimental Methods:

We conducted a survey of our high school students to ascertain the various

thoughts on our research. For our quantitative method, we conducted a survey,

and for our qualitative methods, we interviewed two students, both of which were

targeted at students from grades ten to twelve. We decided to experiment with

answers from the high school students because we believed that since our student
body is made up of students of different backgrounds, the answers that we would

receive would be diverse.

Quantitative: survey
We decided to conduct a survey targeting high school students, to find out their

preferences between Instagram and Facebook. Having many students who recently
came from Korea, and since Facebook is more widely used there, we wanted to

find out if this would apply to our school. We asked questions regarding the

student’s preference of either Instagram or Facebook, reasons of which, and what

factors made them prefer one app over the other.

Qualitative: interview

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