A STUDY ON

PEOPLE PERCEIVING THEIR MESSAGES ON SOCIAL MEDIA (FACEBOOK)

PROJECT REPORT

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SCIENCE XI “D2” ‘HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’

• SHRISTI SHARMA TANKA RAJ DAHAL
• AARYA GAUTAM

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost, we would like to thank our English Teacher

(Tanka Raj Dahal) who motivated us in doing these projects. He
provided us with invaluable advices. His motivation and help
contributed tremendously to the successful completion of the
project. Any attempt at any level can ‘t be satisfactorily completed
without the support and guidance of our friends. Last but not the
least, we would like to express gratitude to the college for providing
suitable environment for doing our project.
Without them, we could never have completed this task.

Thanks to each and every one who supported, motivated and guided
us for the greater project.
Thanks a lot.

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 INTRODUCTION

The official stated purpose of Facebook is to make the world more

connected. Facebook's latest mission statement is that people use
Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, discover what's
going on in the world and share and express what matters to them. It
is also one of the greatest platforms available to share your ideas,
and to show your personality.

In this survey we polled 100 Facebook friends to learn

about the ways they are using Facebook.

This is intended as a sampling of 100 Facebook users to see how

they:

1. Baseline information on the participants

2. Trends in general usage patterns
3. General information on how they use Facebook
4. Graph Search awareness and usage
5. Their bio and how they represent themselves in this platform
6. Set their status

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 CONTENT
-STATUS OF PEOPLE(5)
-DATA CATEGORIZING THE ABOVE STATUS OF PEOPLE IN
FACEBOOK (6)
-PIE CHART REPRESENTING ABOVE DATA (7)
-WEEKEND PLANS (8-9)
-RECENT POSTS (10-11)
-CONCLUSUION (12)
-REFERENCE (13)

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 STATUS OF PEOPLE

S.N STATUS
A “Nothing much going on”
B “Nasty breakup!”
C “Finding out about all the family events I don’t get invited
to
D “Not enough likes on my post”
E “I ended up failing a class.”
F “Feeling obligated to accept friend requests from people I
didn’t genuinely like.”
G “I hate most of my friends now that I know what they’re
thinking 24/7.”
H “Some people are drama queens and their posts can be
horrible.”
I “I became addicted to Facebook.”
J “Obama”

The above data represents different status of 1 st 10 friends in my

Facebook. According to this information, they all have been going
through different phases on their life. B is getting over his nasty
break up while A has nothing much. D is not happy about likes on
his post while F feels obligated to accept friend requests form
people she doesn’t like. H thinks some people’s post are too
dramatic and uncivilized. ‘I’ confesses being addicted to Facebook
while J shoes interest in politics.

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 DATA CATEGORIZING THE ABOVE STATUS OF PEOPLE IN
FACEBOOK

Response Category Total

Nothing 25
Wasting time 12
Rude people and embarrassing posts 5
Privacy concerns 11
Drama 10
“Ex’s” and break-ups 5
Stalkers/Being found by people you don’t want to find you 10
Other 6
Losing friends 5
Hackers 0
Too-much-information 7
Getting Banned from Facebook 4
Annoying Ads 2
Drunken Posts 2

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 PIE CHART REPRESENTING ABOVE DATA

Total

Nothing

Wasting time
13%
6% 32%
Rude people and embarrassing
posts
13%
Privacy concerns

14% 15% Drama

7%

“Ex’s” and break-ups

Stalkers/Being found by people

you don’t want to find you

The above chart represents data categorizing status of different

people using Facebook. Response category and total number of
people showing that response is shown in the diagram.
Almost one third of people claim to have nothing much going on their
lives while 7% of them are giving too much information. Surprisingly,
very few people posted rude and embarrassing content. Some of
them seem to have privacy concerns and have not shown a lot of
information on their profile. Few of those people seen to live for the
drama love getting attention. Around 6 people have gone through
awful break ups and are down.
From the above diagram, we can conclude that most of the people
don’t like revealing their personal life and have privacy concerns
which I believe is a good thing. While there are few, posting rude and
uncivil content on these media needs to be stopped.

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 WEEKEND PLANS
F - gave a status of going out for dinner with his family
G - gave a status of her current favorite song
H - gave a status of him studying for his exams
I - gave a status of going out for a movie with his friends
J - gave a status of having a cup of tea while enjoying the sunset from
his window.

SPENDING YOUR TIME ON WEEKEND

0 1 EXAMS2 FOOD ENTERTAINMENT

3 4 5

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 The above bar graph represents how people claim to spend their
time on facebook on a specific weekend.
F is a family person; he likes to go out and spend time with his family.
He also is a food lover so he uploaded all the dishes he had for
dinner along with their names. He likes to document food on his
social media for others to see. G is a music enthusiast. She keeps
posting about new playlists or songs that she comes across and likes
for other people to also listen to them. She likes to share her music
taste with others in wonder that maybe there will be others who also
have the same music preference as him. H is a school student who is
bored and stressed with his ongoing exams. So, he is sharing his
sorrow and frustration with other people on social media in hopes
that his classmates or other batch mates might share his feelings
since they are also in a similar situation. ‘I’ is always out with his
friends. He is an extrovert and easy-going person who always has
some plan prepared for every day. He likes watching movies in the
theatre so he is out to watch a newly released movie with his friends.
J is an introvert. He is a calm and quiet person who likes to spend
time alone. He likes to have tea while appreciating nature. The sight
of the sunset pleases him so much that he wants to share it with
other people on social media who would appreciate the aesthetics.
From this information, we can gather that these people love to spend
some quality time in their weekends

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 RECENT POSTS

1. “I got to talk to my son in Australia I hadn’t seen in four years.”

2. “I was cast in a movie in my dreams!”
3. “Built my relationship to marriage level.”
4. “I won a contest for a Rs 1000 gift card.”
5. “Meeting my cousins.”
6. “I have regular contact with my family overseas.”
7. “I found a long-lost best friend.”
8. “Expanding my knowledge on science.”
9. “Found a roommate.”

Status Total

Reconnecting & staying connected 20

Finding old friends 10

Met new people/made new friends 25

Networking, marketing, money-making
10
opportunities
Nothing 12

General social use/sharing 5

Meeting partner 8

Staying up on current events and news 7

Gaming 5

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 Chart Title

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20
15
10
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Total

0-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25

The above chart shows the caption of different posts they recently
updated on Facebook. This provides information on 100 people.
12 of them seem to have nothing going on their life while quarter of
them seem to meet new people and socialize with different
individuals. Almost one third of them are reconnecting and staying
connected with their old life and friends. Few of them are applying for
jobs and seeking employments
These posts seem to be happy and refreshing than the ones we saw
before. We can see people reconnecting with their old friends while
welcoming new people in their lives. Some are trying to gain financial
stability while a number of them seem to be satisfied with the new
turn of events in their lives.

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 CONCLUSION

Facebook, arguably the most famous social networking site, comes

with its own pros and cons.
As seen in this project; there are people who use Facebook for
the original cause it was meant for, to connect with people. We have
old friends staying in different parts of the country or even across the
globe. The existence of a platform like Facebook has helped billions
of people to get in touch with their family and friends.

Some use it for the sake of entertainment while a number of them

just love to post nothing. We don’t pretend that this represents the
entire population, and it certainly does not represent the largest
user profiles on Facebook or any business pages but it certainly
does provide few information on how people choose to spend their
hours on this social media platform.

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 REFERENCE

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

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