The Relationship between Education Level and Self-Disclosure on Facebook

Indianapolis, IN

Social Media usage is the new hot topic on a national scale. Another issue that has been coming towards the foreground is education. The purpose of this research is to look at how level of education affects how much a person discloses on the social media site, Facebook. This will be explored by a series of online surveys and then an in depth look at the participants personal Facebook page, given that the participant will give consent to their page being looked at by the researcher. Once access to the Facebook page is granted, the researcher will be looking for the use of certain expressions related to disclosure. After the course of the researching phase, this researcher will be terminating access to all participants Facebook pages, in order to maintain an ethical standards. The goal of this study is to measure the relationship between a person's level of education and their usage of Facebook.