Pinterest is not even a social
Can I participate in this survey?
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.
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.
And yet, I think most people are checking all those boxes, unfortunately. Pray for their mental health! 😵
Agreed, the only way this would be acceptable if this was in an application for a Social Media manager position?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
Maus?
It’s german for mouse.
Ich weiß, ich bin eine Katze.
Monthly Active Users
Monthly active mice?
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.
Sure, two billion is a lot, but that is still only a third of all living adults.
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). :)
How many of those are bots or alts?
We are the 72%. They’re the weird ones.
I’m fine with being weird, my beef is the presumption that everyone has Instagram.
2 billion is only a quarter of 8 billion. They are the weird ones.
I complained in the “other” box that they did include for a different question lol
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.
You’re… You’re on Lemmy now? How can you claim not to use ‘any of those’ when you’re posting on one of those?
Yes, I am 67 yrs old. Far as I know I am on a different system (Lemmy) than all those others? Got wiped on Reddit and quit all the other ones years ago. Sorry if I am doing this incorrectly.
Discord, YouTube, Lemmy and Reddit was the list in the comment you replied to. I was referring to that list. Seems like we just had our wires crossed in the ambiguity in your usage of ‘those’ in the comment ‘I don’t use any of those’ wherein you were referring to the OP and I thought you were referring to the comment you replied to. Does that sound right to you?
Think of it as giving them bad data.
No one will like hearing this answer but they may already understand 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.
I’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.
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.
None of the above?
Oh man I’m taking research class this is non exhaustive because there are gaps in the survey such as a lack of other or none and there’s a second criteria I can’t remember
I really hope my professor doesn’t have lemmy
They don’t
You might be on to something here
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?
No idea. One of my kids likes it, I always block Pinterest results on searches once I figured out how, because I can’t stand that site.
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.
Snapchat for only texting other people
Instagram for memes & some minor ““celebrities”” (YouTubers and some trans folk that give tips)
Pinterest for outfits/tattoo designs/etc. I get memes from there and post to 196 sometimes.
discord for uhhhh… discord stuff, idk. I scroll meme channels sometimes. and sometimes chat
YouTube for 99% of my online things. Unhealthy AF addition
Lemmy for more memes and news (not the best practice tbh) I mainly use just bc I want to support the fediverse and it’s better than scrolling reposted Instagram reels
I don’t use any twitter/bsky/threads/mastodon type platform, I just don’t mesh with the type I guess. It’s just short political stuff that’s depressing and memes which I get from literally everywhere else 🤷♀️
Pinterest. They’re like half of google results.
Not with -pinterest
If you use kagi you can just permanently block Pinterest. And any other site you want. Or rank their listings lower.
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.
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.
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
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.
All they need to do is put YouTube on there for a more meaningful survey.
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)
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
Wow. I can honestly say I spend less than an hour a week on all of those. I wasn’t expecting that.
If they don’t count FBMsgr for family/portalTV chat, then I’m under an hour as well.
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?
It does, in fact.
Zero on all for me.
I spend about 10-20 mins on Snapchat a week.
Lol tell them you use Pinterest.
i still don’t understand what the point of that site is, is it literally just made-up SEO spam that they managed to convince people is even slightly organic?
Pinterest? I’ve only touched it a few times to see what it was and it’s basically just Instagram, but instead of duck lips, misspelled names on coffee cups, and pictures of food it’s mainly focused on hobbies/crafts. That was years ago, tho. I have no idea what it’s like now.
closes questionnaire