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. 

1. Findings and Discussion