And the results are in!

As my regular readers will know, my views on social networking are somewhat cynical. Whilst I have a Facebook account, I use it as a means to contact friends (yes actual friends) and lately I’ve used it to organize study sessions with other students. But I digress from my point. Whilst I use Facebook for these reason I was quite curious to see what other people used social media for. So to do so I created a survey. Below are the recorded results of said survey. The survey was taken by 20 people.

Question One:

What social network websites do you use?

Answers:

Facebook: 100%

MySpace: 0%

Instagram: 30%

Twitter: 25%

Other: 5%

Question Two:

How much time do you spend on social media websites each day?

Answers:

0 – 1 hrs: 50%

2 – 4 hrs: 35%

5+ hrs: 15%

Question Three:

Why do you use social media?

Answers:

To maintain contact with friends: 35%

Because everyone else has does: 10%

To stalk people: 35%  

As a means of communication: 20%

Question Four:

What age where you when you first created a social media profile?

Answers:

10 – 15: 20%

16 – 18: 50%

19 – 15: 25%

25+: 5%

Question Five:

Do you use privacy settings for your social media page?

Answers:

Yes: 80%

No: 20%

Question Six:

Have you deactivated a social media account before?

Answers:

Yes: 60%

No: 30%

Thinking about it: 10%          

CityKat's article "Recognising anorexia in your significant other"

The last task for the week… This task I am to respond to a post from a professional news blogger. The blogger I chose today was the wonderful Kat Feeney. For those who don’t know, Katherine ‘Kat’ Feeney is a journalist with the Brisbane times often reporting on entertainment, lifestyle, sex and love and dating. Kat also has her own blog on tumblr where she goes under the user handle CityKat. Kat will often post stories relation to the aforementioned topics such as lifestyle, pop culture etc. Kat recently did a story on male anorexia which reached me. So that was the articles I responded to.

I will provide a link to the blog article and you will be able to see my response in the comments below (look for a user called Melpz). I highly recommend following CityKat’s blog, she is an amazing journalist and a wonderful writer.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/lifestyle/life/blogs/citykat/recognising-anorexia-in-your-significant-other-20130829-2st0w.html

Alas my friends this is my final post (at least for academic purposes) and it might be some time before my next post. But still, until next time friends…

ABC's Vote Compass

As per request via uni I took part in ABC's Vote Compass. Its purpose is to gauge your political alignment based on the answers in the survey. Whilst doing the survey I had to laugh to myself because for nearly every question I answered neutral because once again, I don’t care about much in the world of politics. That being said when I do care about I care about passionately. I digress. According to the survey I took ABC assumed I am an ALP man. Unfortunately ABC I am not. I support the LNP. Whilst the ALP do have some great policies, an LNP leadership is what this country needs right now
*These are my political beliefs only*

 results from the quiz are listed below.