Forced to lie on a questionnaire (BioLife)

A radio presenter this morning was talking like we all have Instagram, I found that incredibly annoying.

Agreed, the only way this would be acceptable if this was in an application for a Social Media manager position?

I complained in the "other" box that they did include for a different question lol

And yet, I think most people are checking all those boxes, unfortunately. Pray for their mental health! 😵

Where i live, none of the forms to apply for a flat ask only allowed questions. The respective agency even provides a summary, what questions are not allowed (like gender, religion) because discrimination potential but all ask at least two of them.

Bias. Good 'ol plain bias.

Unless you're very self-aware, one requires actual training and practiced mindfulness to break free from that in all endeavors. There's also some lack-of-the-outside-world going on too - one would need to have at least thought about world experiences apart from one's own, to consider alternative possibilities.

I think they shot themselves in the foot, one thing thats worse than no data is wrong data. And they are forcing people to produce wrong data.

They sabotaged themselves years ago by squashing popular votes with an algorithm, so a large amount of people don't realize the size of the site.

You can go look at recent popular tweets and see 200k reactions, meanwhile the top posts on reddit show 10-30k votes, despite having 2-50 times as many behind the scenes.

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.

Not with -pinterest

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.

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?

I spend about 10-20 mins on Snapchat a week.

Zero on all for me.

Collecting cute images of fruit bats and wolves.

Before they went all out nuclear with ads, promoted content, shops, and AI slop, I was using Pinterest a shit ton to look at fanart and memes (mostly stolen/reposted art, but real human art at least). I'd be on there for an hour or so every other day tbh, I liked making boards of my fixations and shit.

Then the app went to hell a few years back and I ditched it, because the web version sucks, and I didn't know about LibRedirect instances. Now I just don't bother with the place anymore.

If you're a visual artist it's great for finding reference and inspiration material. When I'm not sure exactly what I want to draw I'll usually scroll Pinterest for a bit, find something that gives me an idea, then use Pinterest again to source reference material for said idea. So if I'm really in the mood to draw I can definitely rack up a couple hours in Pinterest a week.

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.

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)

Still would be zero for me.

There are 168 hours in a week. Why not use them all?

I'm exclusively on Pinterest 100hours/week. (I forgot to close the tab with the image search for cool origami)

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.

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.

Which is why proper survey design never allows for this.

They don’t

chaos! chaos!