New Story Ideas as of 5:30 a.m. 9/30

 How different cultures use technology and social media 

-          Teen drinking

-          Marijuana legalization

-          Student athletes and how they manage their time between social life, school, and sports

-          Fear behind public speaking in America today

-          Child labor and child labor laws in different countries

-          Gay marriage

-          Smoking (interview both smokers and nonsmokers; ask questions concerning health, attraction, and pricing)

-          Crime and how people are affected by it

-          Why people are more attracted to articles related to crime rather than something else

-          Peru's expansion of the growing of coca, the plant used to make cocaine (the exaggeration of drug trafficking in Peru has helped alter the affect that this particular news has on people)

-          Elexander Fitzgerald and the death of his son, Daniel Graves, lost to a shooting in Asbury Park, NJ. (I would go about this was to find out how to possibly get in touch with Elexander Fitzgerald. I don't think this would be too hard because he has been openly speaking to the public about his son's death and has been interviewed by many. I would be interested to interview him as well as other people who live in Asbury Park. I would also like to interview my boss at my job in New Jersey because he lives in Asbury Park and witnesses this crime quite frequently. I have easy access to interviewing him in my hometown.)

-          Obesity. (I could use twitter to post if people would rather choose McDonald's or Saladworks. Not that Saladworks is much healthier, but it just the idea that they want to eliminate McDonald's out of their diet and get the vegetables in. I could ask for "retweets" for McDonald's, and "favorites" for Saladworks. By doing this, I think I could get an idea of what people wish to do in regards to their food choices. However, this could not be a fair test due to the fact that I would only get results from people my age. Still, it would be a good representation.)

-          Partying in West Chester

-          How "subtweeting" affects the lives of people. (In case you did not know, a subtweet is a tweet directed towards another person as an insult without actually tweeting their name.  For example, "Why are you so annoying". An interesting story would describe the effects of the subtweet to the tweeter and the receiver. Their emotional responses could be very different and I am curious as to who subtweets more often in our society.)