Quick reference for the whole project: count your feed, look for controls, read the privacy summary, pick one concrete ask, support it with your own counts, be fair, and keep your details out of the letter.
🧭 Plot Summary
A feed is a set of choices someone made, and companies sometimes change those choices when a person asks clearly. In 3.1.1 you saw how a feed learns you. In 3.1.2 you learned to read what an app collects. Now you use both.
You'll audit the feed and settings of one platform you really use, with counts only. Then you'll choose one concrete change to ask for, support it with what you found, be fair about why the company might hesitate, and write a short letter. Your teacher reads it before anything is sent.
What you'll do in this activity
- Count the first 20 items in your own feed: followed, recommended, ads, and couldn't tell.
- Look for six controls and a privacy summary, and record what you found and what you couldn't.
- Choose one concrete change to ask a company for, and the facts from your audit that support it.
- Be fair: write a reason the company might hesitate, and why the change is still worth it.
- Review a partner's letter and answer theirs, then read yours for anything that could identify you.
- Hand it to your teacher, who decides whether anything is sent.
Ground rules
- Use your own account on your own device. Never open anyone else's feed or phone.
- Counts, not content: don't write down, screenshot or share posts, usernames or people.
- Say what you saw, not what you think the company intends. A count shows what appeared, not why.
- No name, school, town, username, email or phone number in the letter. You sign as "a high school student."
Why it matters
Asking for a change clearly, with evidence and fairness, is a skill that works on a company, a school board or an employer.
✅ Self-Check Before You Share
Check off each item as you get there. These aren't grades. They're your own signal.