Hello everyone,
I would first like to start by saying thank you to each and
every person who took time to complete our survey on social media addiction. We
quickly reached our limit restriction on survey monkey of 100 responses and unfortunately
were only able to analyze the results of these first 100 surveys completed. Due
to these limitations we cannot say for sure on how accurate our data is on the
local trends of social media addiction but we hope that these results give you
some perspective regardless. Our survey consisted of 70% females and ages
ranged from under 18 years old to over 65 years old with 90% of respondents
within the 18-24 and 25-34 age brackets.
As you can see from the chart above, the majority of respondents
visit a social media networking site at least once a day if not hourly.
As you can see from the pie chart above, 73% of respondents
feel that they do not spend more time on social media than with friends and
family. This response is a positive one because this could hint that people are
not as addicted to social media as it may seem and that time is still being
made to connect with family and friends in person.
Question five asks respondents how often they check social
media while driving and thankfully 84% responded with never. However this does
not take in consideration texting while driving.
As you can see from the chart above, that ¾ of respondents
are unable to go without a computer or phone for 24 hours. This comes as no
surprise to us because the majority of respondents were between ages 18-34
which means computers and phones are being used on a daily basis for work and
school purposes.
Only 20% of respondents said that they get anxiety from the
thought of being away from social media for long periods of time. It’s likely,
that this 20% of respondents have started or already developed an addiction to social
media.
As you can see, there is almost a tie between those that get
distracted sometimes by social media and those who often get distracted by
social media. For the majority of respondents, social media plays a role in procrastination.
With the last two questions regarding demographics of age
and gender, that ends our results from the survey. We hope that we have
provided you all with some insight of the trends that are taking place locally.
Did any of these results surprise you?
Why or why not?
Take care,
Tiffany Hopkinson.
