Facebook dissertation help!!

[bushra]

Hey guys,

Your input on the following survey will be invaluable for the research study I am conducting, which aims at investigating Facebook users’ awareness of privacy issues and perceived benefits and risks of utilizing Facebook. I encourage you to share this survey link with your friends that use Facebook.

Please take the time to complete every question. I sincerely appreciate the time you are taking to do this, and it will yield more productive results. Every answer you give in detail will be important for my analysis.


http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?E4C0ACB6E4A0B5B5E5


Thank you for completing my survey.

 

[wvuwhat]

I completed it.

 

[iBookG4user]

I completed it, although I don't use Facebook very much.

 

[bushra]

Thank you so much guys, appreciate it x

 

[Skengman]

I don't mean to be cynical, but isn't this survey asking for quite a lot of personal information?

Surely my name, age, gender, email address and place of residence is a lot to ask on a survey about privacy?

I completed it, but I didn't fill out the first 5 questions 100% truthfully. I didn't deviate too far from the truth though, to try to keep the results valid.

 

[maflynn]

Sorry dude, I was all set to fill it in, until it asked for my name, age and email address. I'm not sure why you need an email address for a survey/statistical analysis. I don't give those things out freely.

 

[ethical]

Sorry dude, I was all set to fill it in, until it asked for my name, age and email address. I'm not sure why you need an email address for a survey/statistical analysis. I don't give those things out freely.

I agree. Age and gender are ok, obviously they can be used to compare between groups of people....but name and email address are unnecessary.

 

[kolax]

Only three pieces of information you should have asked from me were:

Age, Country and Gender.

 

[nastebu]

some questions

I understand not wanting to give name and email, but it's a perfectly legit request if the op is really going to use this in a dissertation. Anonymous online surveys are not usable in any serious research.

On the other hand, Bushra, I don't see any IRB information. I'm not comfortable filling it out either without comments about the privacy of the data you're collecting, a statement as to how the data will be used, that kind of basic irb stuff.

 

[0098386]

I understand that you might need email for verification purposes but no, you're not having that.

 

[bushra]

Thanks guys for replaying. Well, if you don't feel comfort about giving out your name, email and age, you can write instead "private".

 

[kolax]

Just completed it.

Few tips: wording of the questions wasn't always that great. Also, you should have a "maybe" or "don't know" option to get more correct data. Making folk choose yes or no doesn't always get the most accurate statistics. A few of the questions, I'd have chosen "don't know" or "maybe" because it isn't something I had really considered.