When collecting data for this project, I went through
multiple steps. I didn’t originally ask my final questions. Ideas need to be
thought through, processed, rejected, redone and calculated again. However with
my process I was lucky that my original ideas could be kept within the final
plans because they were all able to connect.

I began my
data in an unconventional way because I went in looking for something else and
then found a study that could be twisted and edited almost yearly but was able
to be supported by statistic’s. I found all my data from the Facebook Page of
StopBullying.Gov, the actual webpage of StopBullying.Gov, and lastly based off
of other articles that support my ideas that I wanted to create from my
question. I wanted my question to be answered with enough facts that I was able
to collect on my own while also supporting those facts with other facts done by
accredited authors.

My data
really began with the snapchats I took from the Facebook page and the actual website of the StopBullying.Gov
Platform. From those snapchats I then went to find research to support the
ideas that were going through my head. The idea that mothers use social media
tools more than fathers never occurred to me until I saw it in action.

My first action was to go to the StopBullying.Gov website
page. The first thing I saw there was a sliding photo montage that had a
picture of a mom as a hero. This gave me the starting idea that mom’s were more
involved in the platform and it could just be a gender based project. The
female in the picture is portrayed as a hero because as many people know, moms
are always there and so helpful in tough situations. This is not to say that
Dad’s are not as helpful, but specific platforms and social media support the
idea that women are more dominant in this aspect of their child’s lives. 

The first post I found was about boys, girls and bullying.
This post on Facebook gave me the first question I had that were that girls
were generally more involved in this because they were being bullied by boy, so
there must have been more occurrences of bullying involving girls. 

 From that post I then found a post that of the 13 comments
on the post, when I originally took the picture of it, all of them were women.
Women were already beginning to create the mold that they were more involved in
this platform. Then I began to think that this study should be directed at the
parents instead of the people being bullied. This is a sensitive topic for
children and parents, but typically it is the parents that are the ones that
are actually making the change and difference.

 Then I found the posts that were directed at parents and I
knew I was on the right track. However the posts weren’t directed at one parent
more than the other but very generally posted to grab attention. This post
below was interesting because it was directed at both parents, placing moms
before dads. It wouldn’t seem like a big deal but when mailing labels are
constantly “Mr. and Mrs.” you would think the same would apply here. This post
also mentioned Internet safety which then led me to the new idea that maybe it
was more about the actual Facebook page that was gaining attention from women
more than men.

After seeing that post, I wanted to find more posts that
were directed at both moms and dads. Which led me to the “Rules” post. This
post is again directed to Moms and Dads, moms being first. Of the 86 people
that had liked it more than ¾ of them were women and of the posts alone that
were provided in the screen shot, all of them are female names. The 33 shares
were also majority women, which then gave me my final question as to why women
were more involved in this platform, was it just the platform they were
interested in or was it interesting because it was on Facebook.