Reflect on your research topic and identify the most compelling issue connected to it. Clearly explain what the issue is and discuss why you find it particularly interesting or important. Support your response with specific details from your research.

 Prompt: Reflect on your research topic and identify the most compelling issue connected to it. Clearly explain what the issue is and discuss why you find it particularly interesting or important. Support your response with specific details from your research.

Prompt Response: The most compelling issue attached to my topic to me is the effects of social media on the mental health of young people. It explores how social media can create feelings of isolation for teens as well as ruin their sense of self. This is important as so many young children use social media nowadays, and if it has all of these extremely negative effects we should at least know how to mitigate them. For examples, studies show that users of Instagram have reportedly higher rates of both depression and anxiety, which also lead to increased instances of suicidal ideation.

Summary: Today in class we continued to work on our research project.

Reflection: I feel that we got a sizable amount of our work done today. It was a shame however that we had to scrap one of the sources we already wrote down on our papers...