• icedterminal@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    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

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    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.

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    6 hours ago

    I’d just abandon it if I couldn’t answer a question or it was too involved (like a free text box answer).

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    7 hours ago

    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

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      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.

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    Wow. I can honestly say I spend less than an hour a week on all of those. I wasn’t expecting that.

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      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.

    • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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      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)

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    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.

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      Agreed, the only way this would be acceptable if this was in an application for a Social Media manager position?

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      And yet, I think most people are checking all those boxes, unfortunately. Pray for their mental health! 😵

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      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.

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        There’s way more social media than these options. Where’s?

        Reddit
        4chan
        Lemmy
        Mastodon
        Bluesky
        Forums
        Discord
        YouTube
        Patreon
        Medium
        Steam
        Whatsapp
        Pornhub
        VRchat

        Some 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.

  • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Lemmy, Sharkey, and YouTube for me. I’m on Facebook, but less than an hour a week. A friend posts a weekly “how’s everyone doing?” post and I usually comment on that.