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.
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
Lol tell them you use Pinterest.
Didn’t even have Reddit lmao
Why bother taking the survey then, or is it somehow mandatory?
Lemmy
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?
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 My mom used it for a while and i would get some fairly outdated memes from Pinterest.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.
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.
Put 0 hours for each of them
Username checks out?
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.
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.
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?
Zero on all for me.
I spend about 10-20 mins on Snapchat a week.
If they don’t count FBMsgr for family/portalTV chat, then I’m under an hour as well.
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.
Touching grass I see
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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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.
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.
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.
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
2 billion is only a quarter of 8 billion. They are the weird ones.
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). :)
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.
How many of those are bots or alts?
I’m fine with being weird, my beef is the presumption that everyone has Instagram.
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.
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.
None of the above?
