topic proposal essayII

1. What is your topic and how does it relate to the overall theme of trends and culture?
Topic: The face book
Trend: It is a new way for college students to interact on line.

2. What is the main controversy? Who are the participants in the debate?
It is being used more often day after day. People will interact less face to face and there will be more virtual relationships
Participants: college students

3. Please list all the causes/effects you intend to explore in your essay. Obviously, you might come up with other causes/effects based on your research, but it is useful to know what you have to start with.

Causes: computers, internet, email, msn, aim,
Effects: More college students will join the face book, Main form of communication will be the internet, some on will come up with a knock off version of the face book,

4. What approach will you be using? Please explain if you plan to combine approaches.
I will focus mainly on the effects of the face book a connect to how it became popular like aim

5. What information will you be looking for as you start researching the topic?

What the first internet consisted of, how quickly email became popular, the different types of email and which came first, how email is close to instant messaging, how similar face book is to msn and aim, Testimony from students that use face book, when did face book start, how quickly it became popular