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.
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.
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.
closes questionnaire
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.
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.
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.
Still would be zero for me.
Wow. I can honestly say I spend less than an hour a week on all of those. I wasn’t expecting that.
Zero on all for me.
Hey, look, all the sites I specifically avoid, plus Pinterest which just happens to get avoided.
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. 🙃
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.
Lol tell them you use Pinterest.
i still don’t understand what the point of that site is, is it literally just made-up SEO spam that they managed to convince people is even slightly organic?
Pinterest? I’ve only touched it a few times to see what it was and it’s basically just Instagram, but instead of duck lips, misspelled names on coffee cups, and pictures of food it’s mainly focused on hobbies/crafts. That was years ago, tho. I have no idea what it’s like now.
