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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 195 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 80 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Tyoda@lemm.ee 38 points 1 week ago

There are 2 billion MAUs on there. We are the weird ones.

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago
[-] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Impleader@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

And how many are bots?

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[-] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Deadmau5 is alive and still active. Am I missing something here?

[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Monthly active mice?

[-] Tyoda@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Ich weiß, ich bin eine Katze.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] serenissi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[-] frosty@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

Someone confused MAU (Monthly Average Users) with Mau (the Egyptian Mau cat). :)

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

How many of those are bots or alts?

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

I’m fine with being weird, my beef is the presumption that everyone has Instagram.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

2 billion is only a quarter of 8 billion. They are the weird ones.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

We are the 72%. They're the weird ones.

[-] f314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Sure, two billion is a lot, but that is still only a third of all living adults.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 week ago
[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

That’s what I’m on. I need to take all the picture off my Instagram.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How does that work? Does this just show up as a comments section tied to an image?

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 week ago

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

[-] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

There's way more social media than these options. Where's?

Reddit
4chan
Lemmy
Mastodon
Bluesky
Forums
Discord
YouTube
Patreon
Medium
Steam
Whatsapp
Pornhub
VRchat

Some 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.

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