1. How do you see social media being part of your life and your identity in the next ten, twenty, or even thirty years?
2. Is there anything you do not or will not post onto social media? Why?
3. How is your audience for your twitter different than your audience for say
your facebook or tumblr? How does this shape what you do or do not post?
4. How are you different than the average user? How are you different than the users you follow?
5. How often do you post to social media? How often are you on social media? Why do you think you do one more than the other, or do them about the same?
6. Does social media affect your interests? How may it or how may it not?
7. What are your habits that you have on social media? Do those factor into your identity, either on or offline?
8. Someone you don’t know, has never met you and does not know anything about you clicks on your profile, what do you think they think? What do you think they identify you as or how do they construct your identity?
9. Do you think there is a strive for everyone to construct a certain “perfect” identity on social media? If so, what is this “perfect” identity? How do you think this affects what you and others post?
10. Does social media empower identities or make them vulnerable? How so?
11. Is social media an honest look into the identity of yourself and others, or is it more of an alter ego?
Overall, great questions! #8 and #10 struck me as particularly cool and likely to yield some cool results. Be careful of leading questions, though, like #9. The way it's phrased doesn't give your participant a lot of options for answering if they don't think it makes us want to construct a "perfect identity."
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