And the results are in!

As my regular readers will know, my views on social networking are somewhat cynical. Whilst I have a Facebook account, I use it as a means to contact friends (yes actual friends) and lately I’ve used it to organize study sessions with other students. But I digress from my point. Whilst I use Facebook for these reason I was quite curious to see what other people used social media for. So to do so I created a survey. Below are the recorded results of said survey. The survey was taken by 20 people.

Question One:

What social network websites do you use?

Answers:

Facebook: 100%

MySpace: 0%

Instagram: 30%

Twitter: 25%

Other: 5%

Question Two:

How much time do you spend on social media websites each day?

Answers:

0 – 1 hrs: 50%

2 – 4 hrs: 35%

5+ hrs: 15%

Question Three:

Why do you use social media?

Answers:

To maintain contact with friends: 35%

Because everyone else has does: 10%

To stalk people: 35%  

As a means of communication: 20%

Question Four:

What age where you when you first created a social media profile?

Answers:

10 – 15: 20%

16 – 18: 50%

19 – 15: 25%

25+: 5%

Question Five:

Do you use privacy settings for your social media page?

Answers:

Yes: 80%

No: 20%

Question Six:

Have you deactivated a social media account before?

Answers:

Yes: 60%

No: 30%

Thinking about it: 10%