Mildly Infuriating

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! 😵

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.

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 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'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 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.

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.