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How and Why do you use Social Media? A 1-minute survey

Hi guys, I'd be extremely grateful if you could spend just 1 minute to fill in this survey on how you use Social Media.

Survey (Google Form)

I'm studying the topic with some friends and we could really use your help, I promise it won't take longer than 1 minute.
Our goal is to understand how people interact with Social Media and if a platform providing learning content could be helpful in reducing such time.

here is the link if you missed it before :) https://forms.gle/TwuCBDTywfsdMn8e7

Thank you very much in advance :)

on February 6, 2020
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    hey if you're using this for research can a suggest a few ways you can improve the survey? (I'm going to give it anyways once I'm done cause this is my job hahah)

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      1. Move the demographic questions to the end (e.g. age, occupation, relationship status). Unless used for DQing, always move demographic questions to the end, since theyre the easiest for people to answer.
      2. Do you have any hobby?
      • make this multi select
      • for other, allow them to put in their own response
      • Also, I see you have a similar question below with more responses. Use the same responses in this question that you do later on
      1. How many times do you access social media during the day on average? (excluding Whatsapp or messaging apps)
      • I would change this question to how many minutes / hours people think they spend on social media a day and give them an easier scale to bucket themselves into. I'd have no idea how many times I access social media, but I could probably say I spent 1-2 hours on social media a day
      1. What are the main reasons why you use social media?
      • I'd either change this to "What is the main reason" and force them to select one OR keep it the way it is but add in more responses. Right now I could see a lot of people selecting all 4 responses - and not sure how helpful that will be fore you
      1. Which Social Media do you use the most? (Do not consider messaging apps)
      • what is the reasoning behind this question? if you want to know which platforms to target for your idea, then i'd add in a few more options (& potentially make it multi-select). If you want to know what mediums to go after (e.g. video, text, photos), you could bucket these a little more according to that
      1. For these two questions:
        Do you feel like you are using Social Media too much?
        Do you think people tend to abuse of Social Media? (i.e. use them too much)
      • I think you need more of a scale on this, either a 3 or 5 point one. I don't think you'll have much of an indication if the responses are just yes/ no right now.
      1. Would you be interested in converting some of your time on Social Media to learn new things? - I think this is the start of testing out your idea, but right now its a super vague question still. I wouldn't know whether to select yes or no because I'm not even sure what's being offered to me
      2. Which of the following topics interest you the most?
      • is this helping you narrow down on what types of learning activities you should offer? if so, be more specific in the question. I could be interested in History but not want to learn about it
      1. Would you be interested in a platform that, by providing you learning-bites, would make you spend less time on Social Media? If yes, what would the platform be?
      • Need to offer people the option to say No --> I think maybe the last question should go before this one actually
      1. Would you sign up to a platform where only culture is discussed? (e.g. Art, Cinema, Science, Literature, )
      • this question is a bit confusing now, because before you were asking if I want to get off social media to learn, and now you're asking if I want to sign up for another platform?
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        thank you very much, really good insights :)

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      ahah yeah it would be great :)

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        whoops sorry I wrote a lot in a reply above. I do a lot of survey writing and editing, so I'm just trying to give feedback on what can help you get the best responses!