Thesis Question: What are the benefits and drawbacks of online social networking for children?

Supporting Questions:

1. What is online social networking and why is this an important sociological question?
2. What is the necessary background information?
a. What role does peer socialization play in a child’s development?
b. In the past, what were the ways in which children socialized with their peers?
c. How has that changed in the past 10-15 years?
i. statistics
3. What research illuminates the positive effects of online social networking?
4. What research details negative effects of online social networking?
5. Based on my research, what can I conclude about the benefits and drawbacks of online social
networking?