That’s objectively poor survey design. For questions like that there should always be an ‘Other’ option. There should also be a ‘None’ or ‘N/A’ option.
A radio presenter this morning was talking like we all have Instagram, I found that incredibly annoying.
There are 2 billion MAUs on there. We are the weird ones.
According to Instagram
Not to mention one person having multiple accounts for different purposes and business accounts. Instagram is big, no doubt, but not 2 billion users big
And how many are bots?
Yeah, just for my roommate ages back there’s her, her dog, the creepy person stealing the pictures of her dog and making an account based on that
Maus?
Pre-death Deadmau5?
Deadmau5 is alive and still active. Am I missing something here?
They removed the first half “Dead” from “Deadmau5”, leaving “Maus”. It’s a joke.
Monthly Active Users
Monthly active mice?
It’s german for mouse.
Ich weiß, ich bin eine Katze.
I first questioned why two billion cats have Instagram accounts, then realized there can’t be 2 billion Egyptian Maus in all the world, much less on Instagram.
cat?
Someone confused MAU (Monthly Average Users) with Mau (the Egyptian Mau cat). :)
2 billion is only a quarter of 8 billion. They are the weird ones.
I’m fine with being weird, my beef is the presumption that everyone has Instagram.
How many of those are bots or alts?
We are the 72%. They’re the weird ones.
Sure, two billion is a lot, but that is still only a third of all living adults.
Pixelfed?
I tried to use it, but honestly without an algorithm, it’s simply an empty page. And I don’t want to follow hashtags, since there’s usually too much semi-relevant garbage linked to those. So either I have a curated feed of only the people I follow, which gets boring, or I got nothing at all.
You can follow other people. My Pixelfed isn’t empty.
Yeah I follow all 3 people I know that use it. Hooray.
Oh, I follow people who have content I like. I’m using purely as a photographic content thing, which I thought it, and Instagram originally, were for.
I kind of like the boring aspects of it. I scroll through the feed to the end of new stuff, and then i’m done for the day. It’s a bit like I treat emails. I do miss the inspo of the sewing and knitting community of instagram, though.
That’s what I’m on. I need to take all the picture off my Instagram.
How does that work? Does this just show up as a comments section tied to a image?
Sorry, I meant I use Pixelfed not Instagram. Not that I’m posting these comments from Pixelfed.
Agreed, the only way this would be acceptable if this was in an application for a Social Media manager position?
I complained in the “other” box that they did include for a different question lol
And yet, I think most people are checking all those boxes, unfortunately. Pray for their mental health! 😵
I was thinking the same thing. But if this was a survey specifically for social media, there wouldn’t be a N/A option except at the beginning to make you not have to continue further and waste your time and theirs. (Survey for getting users’ input on social media use, etc.)
But definitely agreed on other. There are so many social media sites out there.
There’s way more social media than these options. Where’s?
Reddit
4chan
Lemmy
Mastodon
Bluesky
Forums
Discord
YouTube
Patreon
Medium
Steam
Whatsapp
Pornhub
VRchatSome of these are very very popular. Asking people their social media habits, and preventing people on most social media from answering, will produce garbage biased data. I hope this study fails peer review and the PhD student responsible flunks.
Why are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It’s baffling. This post is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.
Where i live, none of the forms to apply for a flat ask only allowed questions. The respective agency even provides a summary, what questions are not allowed (like gender, religion) because discrimination potential but all ask at least two of them.
What do you do?
I once reported a big management company but nothing came out of it.
I would suggest lying. Like when an employer asks you about your position on unions.
Bias. Good 'ol plain bias.
Unless you’re very self-aware, one requires actual training and practiced mindfulness to break free from that in all endeavors. There’s also some lack-of-the-outside-world going on too - one would need to have at least thought about world experiences apart from one’s own, to consider alternative possibilities.
By not having “None of the above” or an “Other” allowing you to fill in the blank, instantly discards this data as viable. which makes this question pointless to even answer, let alone ask.
I think they shot themselves in the foot, one thing thats worse than no data is wrong data. And they are forcing people to produce wrong data.
Choose every option.
Pinterest. They’re like half of google results.
And I never understood how to use it. If I click on a Google result from Pinterest I’m always taken to something completely different.
Oh good. I’m not the only one.
far from it.
its a dysfunctional link aggregator. their entire business model is consolidation of other people’s web content. make a FUCKING ACCOUNT IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PHOTOS BRAIDED LEATHER WRISTBANDS
Not with -pinterest
Or maybe google shouldn’t include spam in its results.
If you use kagi you can just permanently block Pinterest. And any other site you want. Or rank their listings lower.
If you use kagi you can just permanently block Pinterest. And any other site you want. Or rank their listings lower.
I seriously don’t understand why anyone would use it. It’s basically a platform that copies images from the internet and lets you bookmark them. Something browsers had since the 90s. Or you could just download the pictures to a folder, so you can see all the thumbnails.
Wow. I can honestly say I spend less than an hour a week on all of those. I wasn’t expecting that.
I can honestly say I have spent less than an hour in my life on all of those added together. Probably less than 10 minutes. Does that mean I am winning?
It does, in fact.
I spend about 10-20 mins on Snapchat a week.
Zero on all for me.
If they don’t count FBMsgr for family/portalTV chat, then I’m under an hour as well.
Think of it as giving them bad data.
I’m exclusively on Pinterest 100hours/week. (I forgot to close the tab with the image search for cool origami)
What’s the coolest origami you’ve ever made? Never tried it but it seems fun.
I was kidding mostly but while travelling (no letters where I was staying) I did recently make, out of basically waste paper, an origami gift card holder I was proud of :) it opens up in the back and you can slide out the card. No tape, no glue. I can look for the website with instructions if you’re interested
Thanks for sharing. Thats very cool.
If you have the link on hand I’d take a look but don’t go out of your way as it may just end on my endless list of things I might do one day.
Thanks :) here it is. Or search “origami letter”
Saving this one, it looks very cool!
Thank you! Have a nice weekend.
No one will like hearing this answer but they may already understand the issue of it being bad data and have a good reason not to care.
Here’s the thing. When “none” or “skip” is there, people gravitate toward it. You end up getting 75% of people saying “none” for every question, and then your entire survey is meaningless. I hate surveys too. Everyone hates them. All the more reason to just mash “skip” or “none.” Because fuck you and fuck your survey.
Meanwhile, what % of people don’t touch any of these social networks? Maybe we can’t say for sure, but it’s way less than 75%.
So you’re choosing between two possible sources of bad data, and choosing the one you know to be of lower magnitude.
Then provide an “other” option with a text box instead.
Make entering some text mandatory if you click it.
No one gravitates toward that.
Besides, a “none” option can just be discarded when you analyze the data.
If all your boxes are social media sites, you have no idea which ones are poisoned by bad data, and by how much.
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All they need to do is put YouTube on there for a more meaningful survey.
I hate that “social media” is such a broad umbrella term. It totally lacks useful context. “Social networking site” is great, straightforward and descriptive. But “social media” encompasses every way we communicate with each other except for “traditional media” which got grandfathered through. BBS predates the internet!
All that to say: YouTube is, for many, a public-access TV station and I’m too young to be this mad about it.
Would be my only answer, unless Lemmy is there too. Although I watch YouTube with ad block and sponsor block and never post a comment. So it’s just a one way stream of only useful information (I don’t watch junk, only stuff I learn from)
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Still would be zero for me.
Touching grass I see
What the what? There is no “none of these” choice? In that case I’d check them all. And in the next screen when they ask how many hours for each, put 100 hours for each of them.
I have never had an account on any of those, did have a very long run on Reddit and a couple of interest-specific communities.
Who is Pinterest really for?
Interior designers
Home decor… Or really interiors?
I can see artists, graphics and maybe UI designers regularly using it too.
Doesn’t matter anymore, it’s like 90% ai slop now.
No idea. One of my kids likes it, I always block Pinterest results on searches once I figured out how, because I can’t stand that site.
Mostly just older moms and people into arts and crafts. My mom used it for a while and i would get some fairly outdated memes from Pinterest. She and Dad mostly just use Facebook nowdays though.
Put 0 hours for each of them
There are 168 hours in a week. Why not use them all?
Didn’t even have Reddit lmao
They sabotaged themselves years ago by squashing popular votes with an algorithm, so a large amount of people don’t realize the size of the site.
You can go look at recent popular tweets and see 200k reactions, meanwhile the top posts on reddit show 10-30k votes, despite having 2-50 times as many behind the scenes.
None of the above?
Hey, look, all the sites I specifically avoid, plus Pinterest which just happens to get avoided.
I got the uBlacklist Firefox extension specifically to block Pinterest from search results.
Pinterest… I got a Pinterest account because my wife recommended it after I asked what it was.
I got it. Very uninteresting. I see one image of like, lingerie or something, so I’m a heterosexual dude and I click that shit, think to myself, hey that’s sexy, maybe my wife will look good in that.
Kid you not, my feed was nothing but lingerie and sexy stuff after that, and women’s clothing. And there was seemingly no way to reset my algorithm or delete my view history or anything. I wanted to see stuff from my interests, like art, skateboarding, gaming, sports, computing, technology, what have you. But my feed was ruined forever.
My bad, I guess. 🤷♂️
Just search for something else.
I use it a lot to find photos to draw and paint from, but I do use some unknown site to do it (on the web so adblockers work), the app or the normal website is a total trainwreck but this one is fine IMO: https://kr.pinterest.com/pin/
I guess that could work but I’m long gone from trying to get Pinterest to work for me. There’s… no interest. 🙃
how the hell someone can use pinterest for more than one hour a week? Just accidentally browse it when trying to search an image on the web and curse the ux team to have hidden the download button in a way that you click the image and brings you in a completely unrelated site with 10000 images except the one you wanted
Collecting cute images of fruit bats and wolves.
Before they went all out nuclear with ads, promoted content, shops, and AI slop, I was using Pinterest a shit ton to look at fanart and memes (mostly stolen/reposted art, but real human art at least). I’d be on there for an hour or so every other day tbh, I liked making boards of my fixations and shit.
Then the app went to hell a few years back and I ditched it, because the web version sucks, and I didn’t know about LibRedirect instances. Now I just don’t bother with the place anymore.
If you’re a visual artist it’s great for finding reference and inspiration material. When I’m not sure exactly what I want to draw I’ll usually scroll Pinterest for a bit, find something that gives me an idea, then use Pinterest again to source reference material for said idea. So if I’m really in the mood to draw I can definitely rack up a couple hours in Pinterest a week.
“Please poison my data”
I would get discord, youtube, lemmy, and reddit
I try to avoid new platforms tho bc I don’t trust myself not to get addicted and social media already takes up too much of my time
I don’t use any of those. Quit Facebook 10 years ago and never really used the others. I just got booted (the account was literally vapourized)off of Reddit after 9 yrs today. Posted a pic of a hat that said is he dead yet. No text just the pic. I don’t care anymore really as once Reddit went on the stock market it was all over anyhoo.
You’re… You’re on Lemmy now? How can you claim not to use ‘any of those’ when you’re posting on one of those?
Yes, I am 67 yrs old. Far as I know I am on a different system (Lemmy) than all those others? Got wiped on Reddit and quit all the other ones years ago. Sorry if I am doing this incorrectly.
Discord, YouTube, Lemmy and Reddit was the list in the comment you replied to. I was referring to that list. Seems like we just had our wires crossed in the ambiguity in your usage of ‘those’ in the comment ‘I don’t use any of those’ wherein you were referring to the OP and I thought you were referring to the comment you replied to. Does that sound right to you?
Yes I ignored Lemmy on the list thinking oh they are good and mentally omitted it. No longer on Reddit for sure now. I seem to have been IP banned. Create a new account and post the most innocuous post and bam within 5 mins account banned. Rinse, repeat. Gonna fart around with my VPN to see in the next few days.
I’d just abandon it if I couldn’t answer a question or it was too involved (like a free text box answer).
Which is why proper survey design never allows for this.
