Narration

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Interviews in Sheffield centre (young people), Social Networking sites etc - 2 mins
Experiment intro - 30 secs
Stats - social networking sites etc - 30 secs
Interviews in elderly home - 2 mins

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We went into Sheffield town centre to ask young people about their knowledge of social networking sites, using Facebook as an example. Do they use them? How often do they use them? What’s their opinion on them causing a decline in face-to-face social contact?

To investigate further if social networks are harming our social skills we decided to conduct an experiment, we asked 3 people to sit in a room together, after intervals of 20 minutes we will take one person out. The idea is to see how they communicate with each other and whether or not a sort of social hierarchy emerges.

The social networking site Facebook has more than 300 million active users, with the fastest growing demographic being those aged 35 and older. In any given day 50% of the active users log in and each month more than 2 billion photos, 14 million videos and 3 million events are created. Not only can you access Facebook through your pc, you can also log in on your mobile phone. There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their phone or mobile devices with more than 180 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products, it comes as no surprise that Facebook mobile users are 50% more active than non-mobile users.

To get a better idea of what the overall population thought of the concept that social networks are harming our social skills, we asked some of the older generation about their views and to see if things were different when they were younger.