A Quick Survey on Facebook

Please answer the following questions honestly. DO NOT put your name anywhere on the paper. The answers will used for information gathering only.

 

  1. Do you have a Facebook page? (If "No," answer only questions 2, 7 and 8)

 

Yes – 23; No – 16

 

  1. Do you view other peoples' Facebook pages? How often?

 

Yes – 22; No - 16

 

  1. If you have your own page, how often do you view/update your page?

 

Responses

 

Once a day; Yes, everyday; Everyday; Whenever I’m on the computer; Everyday; Once a week; Rarely; At least 4 times per week; Once every two weeks; Three times a week; Everyday; Everyday; Once a week, few times a month; When I can; Yes, when I’m bored; Once a day; Almost every day; Once a day;  Once a week; Every few days; Update it a lot; Maybe twice a month; Everyday

 

Analysis

 

Daily or more– 13; Weekly or more– 4; Monthly or more- 6

 

 

  1. Approximately how many "friends" do you have on your page?

 

Responses

 

257; 338; 118; 200; 230; ???; 100; 200; 20; 40; 30-45; 185; 72; 50; 200; 350+; 150; 290; 360; 270; 20-30; 40; 120; 200+;

 

Analysis

 

Mean = 168; Median = 185; Mode = 200

 

Distribution Chart

 

 

  1. Do you ever put questionable content on your page or have had a conflict resulting from what you put on your Facebook page?

 

 

Responses

 

Don’t know;  Yes;  Not Yet; a little bit; I guess some of my content is questionable, but no conflicts

 

 

  1. Do you let your parents view your Facebook page? If not why?

 

Responses

 

Sure, I have my mom on facebook; Yes; No, its my privacy; Yes; No, it’s my Mom. (What?); Yes;  My parents both have Facebook so yes;  Yes;  No they don’t go onto Facebook; I would allow it but they don’t know how; No, because its not their business;  Yes;  No because I don’t;  I don’t care if they do they just don’t know how; No – Idlc (sic) just don’t; Yes;  No because its my page;  Not really, Just cuz their not interested; No, because its my life.  I’ll tell them if they want to know; Yes; Yes; Yeah

 

  1. Would you agree or disagree that Facebook could be used by schools to communicate with students? Why?

 

Responses

 

No, face to face is easier; Yes, cause that its awesome; Yes, because its great; because you can get help; Sure; …sure?; Sure because it would be easy to talk to people; No, its personal and you can’t stop all pictures of yourself; Yes, because students can talk about the course; Yes, because, students don’t want to communicate with teachers or adults they know, face to face; disagree; Maybe, I wouldn’t know; No, email would probably be better; no. facebook is for personal use not school work; Agree. Why not? The cheerleading team already does it. Quick, easy to update, free site; it could because there is more and more people using it; Yes, because there’s a lot of people in the school; I agree because if you use it a lot you might be able to know if school is closed; agree, lots of kids use it; agree – talk to your teachers more; I agree it is a useful communication tool; No because we don’t like the teachers looking at our pages; agree, because it is cool; Sure Since kids are on computers a lot; Don’t know doesn’t hurt to try; Ya – cause people check it out a lot; No because its personal; Ya because most kids use it; Yes If I wanted to know about a course for next year, over the summer I could talk to someone about it. Groups are good too; No, because its something out of school to talk to your friends, etc.; Yes, it is safe as long as you set the safety to high.  There is many safety options you can have I have all mine set to high; It may not be very good because some people don’t go on all the time; No, its personal; No, it would make things awkward; I agree it would though I have to disagree, someone out there will abuse the rules and one person out there may be able to ……; Sore IDN (Sorry I Don’t Know);

 

  1. Would you allow your teacher to be your friend to communicate with you about happenings in a course or the school. Why or Why not?

 

Responses

 

No its private; Yes because it could be handy; Yes sure, I don’t know; No because it not there info; Sure, to be updated; No cause that’s awkward, then they might actual try to be my friend.  And its weird to have teachers as friends; Yes, because it would be funny;  No, its weird but if there was a school group sure; yes, because I would have more friends (?); Depends if I like that teacher or not; No; No I could just ask them in person; No; probably not; if I had one idk (I don’t know) sketchy having them see pictures from parties depends who I guess; yes it would make it easier for school work; Yes, because they are ordinary people too; probably not because it would feel odd;  yes;  Yes – another way to communicate – more private; yes; facebook is used for communication; No, because I don’t want them looking at my page, and viewing my note and photos; No, that would be weird; Yes because it could keep you updated in school; if he/she wants;  Sure – cause; (Same as #7 answer) No because its personal; Yes because it is a good way to communicate; (Same as #7 answer) Yes If I wanted to know about a course for next year, over the summer I could talk to someone about it. Groups are good too; No; yes, of course I have nothing to hide, there is noting bad in my facebook; Sure because some students could get homework assignments; No, its personal; No.  I would be paranoid about who sees my page; No.  I’m into games and Chess.  We need more tournaments; No cause its weird