TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾Forced to lie on a questionnaire
ThePowerOfGeekThat’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.
bambooAgreed, the only way this would be acceptable if this was in an application for a Social Media manager position?
And yet, I think most people are checking all those boxes, unfortunately. Pray for their mental health! 😵
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.
Pre-death Deadmau5?
Deadmau5 is alive and still active. Am I missing something here?
They removed the first half “Dead” from “Deadmau5”, leaving “Maus”. Is a joke.
BroadfernMonthly Active Users
Monthly active mice?
It’s german for mouse.
Ich weiß, ich bin eine Katze.
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
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
And how many are bots?
Sure, two billion is a lot, but that is still only a third of all living adults.
I’m fine with being weird, my beef is the presumption that everyone has Instagram.
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.
FrostySomeone confused MAU (Monthly Average Users) with Mau (the Egyptian Mau cat). :)
How many of those are bots or alts?
We are the 72%. They’re the weird ones.
Ricky Rigatoni2 billion is only a quarter of 8 billion. They are the weird ones.
Possibly linuxPixelfed?
vikingI 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.
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.
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.
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 an image?
Sorry, I meant I use Pixelfed not Instagram. Not that I’m posting these comments from Pixelfed.
I complained in the “other” box that they did include for a different question lol
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
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.
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.
Ikr? I learned to ignore pinterest results because they’re always useless
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.
zqwzzleThink of it as giving them bad data.
pipesI’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 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. 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 underrated 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.
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.
flangoSelect all
chaos! chaos!
Choose at least one option? I don’t use any of those platforms. My only social media is Lemmy and Reddit.