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To begin our research, we surveyed Facebook users about their Facebook use habits. Our demographic for our tests were young adults between the ages 17-25 who were attending a post-secondary institution. We began by asking them To begin, we sat down and discussed what questions we would need to ask people to gather information about how they used use Facebook to communicate with others. They were given the option and what areas of private messaging (i.e. the main Facebook message feature), instant messaging (i.e. Facebook chat) or using wall postspage we would want to focus our attention when we would test them in our second wave of testing.

Our second wave of research consisted of a booth setup outside of Seneca@York’s library and computing commons. Our demographic for our tests were young adults between the ages 17-25 who were attending a post-secondary institution. We had a table setup with three laptops, two running windows 7 for the testers and one running Fedora 15 for the subject. The subjects’ computer was also outfitted with gtk-recordMyDesktop, to view the users actions on the webpage in conjunction with a FujiFilm Finepix camera mounted above the screen to record their eye movements. We utilized three supervising researchers throughout the process, the first two operating the windows Windows 7 laptops and the third to setup and supervise the subject.