This deprivation study stemmed from a semester long project filled with late nights, lots of pizza runs, a powerhouse team and maybe even a few tears (sleep deprivation doesn't look good on anyone.) Our goal was to deprive a set number of individuals of mobile social media and see the effects that it had on their life.

 

We went after college-aged people, because they tend to live on their phones. The results were rather interesting. They all felt out of the loop, even though they had access to social media via desktop. We found more research to back up our findings and at the end of two weeks all of our participants were happily tweeting in class again.

 

You can check out an in-depth version of our findings on our website here.  

 

Click through the slideshow to see the entire study.