Jacob McClayMarissa PuliceEnglish 1510March 25, 2014Project 3 Draft #1There is a good chance that every citizen of every developed country has used the Internet at least once in their life. The way the Internet is used varies between individuals and there is no real right or wrong way to use it. Some use it just for the basics or essentials (like email, news, or academic work, for example), others use it as a hub for social interaction with media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, and a few even use it for questions. of dubious legality. There are also people who "live" on the Internet, fully meeting many non-essential but nonetheless important needs online. By "live," I'm not talking about people who never leave their homes and surf the Internet all day long (more on that later), but rather fully functioning members of society who thrive socially on Internet rather than face to face. the outside world. An important catalyst for these people is Reddit, one of the largest Internet forums in the world. In this study, the focus will be on the community and user interactions of Reddit. The Methods Research on the Reddit community was surprisingly and disappointing. The community itself is extremely easy to access, as anyone with a PC/tablet/smart phone and a basic internet connection can do so, but getting information from specific community members was problematic . A major problem comes from the "casual" nature of Reddit itself; the site is not well suited to professional inquiries. Reddit has a system for sending private messages (hereinafter called "PM" for short) between members, but this system does not work like, for example, email. Since personal messages are only meant for short messages, the middle of paper is that their audience, the young, tech-savvy millennials that Reddit is targeting, makes a great case. -study of Reddit users as a whole. Additionally, recent surveys conducted by the group's leaders reveal a great deal of information about their audiences, providing insight into how audiences interact with themselves as well as higher authority figures. Speaking of authority figures, one construct missing from Reddit is a clear hierarchical social structure. Yes, there are mods that act as a subreddit's "police force" but within the public, there is little social stratification. A certain structure is formed by users who repeatedly post to the subreddit and have their name remembered, but this is the exception and not the rule. This creates a more open environment in which any user, regardless of experience, can