Research Topic: Online Social Networking vs. Corporeal Networking

On Tuesday, Professor surprised us again with another wake-up activity. The class definitely woke up. We had to do a thirty-second research "speed dating" in hopes to become familiar with other people in our class, and find out about their ideas for research topics. I found that I chatted with people more than thirty seconds and couldn't canvas the whole class, everyone had so many interesting research topics that I found myself chatting away.

So, just in case anyone is interested in creating a group or has similar ideas that is discussed below-- let's work together!

My idea for a research topic is to take a virtual social networking site (Facebook) and compare the "interactivity" levels between Facebook networking and Physical world (Orange County based) networking.
Such research would contain (but I'm also open to suggestions):

• The response time between adding people as "friends" to their facebook (and what stems afterwards) versus the response time people would take to come up to any individual physically to create some "small talk"
• The interactivity of people when they meet outside of facebook, and the form of follow ups (facebook wall posts) that arise
• What happens when one actually meets a facebook friend they've never met before? How it affects their interactivity between Facebook and the real-world.

Leave a comment, email, or hey, add me to your Facebook if you're interested!

Hope to hear from you,

~Ej Cruz