Survey on social networks
The social network world is getting bigger and bigger every year. It is now a habit for our generation to go check on facebook and other sites like this what is new. It is almost now an addiction for some people. We wanted to know in our research if girls are more concern about the social network world than boys. We came up with a hypothesis that said that girls are more concern about social network than boys. We thought that since girls are more concern about the image they project that they would be more sensitive about social network where it is all about showing information about them. We conceive eight questions that we asked to thirty people that are mostly between eighteen and twenty-four years old. This text is going to talk about those eight questions and the answers we got and then I am going to conclude by saying if our hypothesis was right or not.
The first question asked if the person goes on social network. Most people said yes. There was a slight difference between the genders but it was very small. The difference as that some girls said they did not go on social network. After that, we asked what favourite social network site was there. Almost everybody answered that their favourite one was facebook. We were not really surprise since there is about 500 active users on facebook. Women had a little more variety in their answer for this question. Some of them answered they liked twitter the most but again it is a very small difference from men’s answers. The third question was about how often the person goes on social network. Men answered in majority that they go many times a day and women answered mostly that they go about once a day. So, we can conclude that men go more often, but not completely since many women answered they go many times a day. Fourth, we asked how they access social network site. Most people said computer or laptop. Men had a little more variety in their answer so we could say that they are more inclined to using some new technology. For our fifth question, everybody answered that they go on social network to communicate with friends. There was no difference between the genders. A majority of people said that they did not worry about their privacy on social network. In our results, women cared more about it than men. Then, we asked if those sites were safe for children. A majority of people said no but many people said yes. Girls are more concern about the security of children because most of them said it was not safe. Finally, we asked if they accept people they don’t know on social network. Everybody said no but we suspect the person that answered of lying because we know that almost everybody did it once. Everybody said no so there is no difference between the genders.
In conclusion, we found out that in majority there is no real difference between the gender and that girls are not really more concern about social network than boys. They are maybe more concern about privacy and security but that’s the only questions in our survey that showed a real difference between men and women. So, we could say that social networks are really popular for both genders.
