Hello, I was wondering if anyone's done any research or has any insight into how often people remove friends from buddy lists. Is there Buddy churn in Instant Messaging or on Social Networking sites? On RSS feeds or on Blogrolls? In virtual worlds or MMOGs? Absolutely any pointers/directions/references welcomed! Thanks very much, Aleks PhD candidate, University of Surrey http://www.toastkid.com ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/
I currently have an online survey underway, and as it slogs along, it has made me curious about something. What, generally, do people find to be the completion rate of their online surveys? This is a stat to which I probably wouldn't have access in a traditional paper survey -- I wouldn't be able to differentiate between people who started the questionnaire and didn't complete it, and those who just didn't fill it out at all -- so it's an interesting feature of this survey format. I'm finding that so far, with my survey the completion rate is hovering around 80%. Is that similar to others' experiences? And FWIW, it's a survey about interactive media use and horse race betting in the U.S. So if any of you bet on horse racing in the U.S. with any regularity, or know someone who does, feel free to scurry on over to (or send them to): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4hvRfxac4nysaLPYd_2bzIlg_3d_3d Although really, I'm publicizing it in horse racing forums. But I am curious to hear about completion rates of others' online surveys. Holly -- Holly Kruse Faculty of Communication The University of Tulsa 600 S. College Ave. Tulsa, OK 74104 918-631-3845 holly-kruse@utulsa.edu or holly.kruse@gmail.com http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~holly-kruse
By completion do you mean how many of those who click through to it actually finish it? On the survey I'm running right now I have WAY less than 80% completion rate. It is more like 55%, which I think is on a par with the last one I did. The "completion" figures are off too, though, because SurveyGizmo (which I am very happy with BTW) calls things completed if people went through to the last page even if they didn't do large sections of the stuff in between, so 50% may be more accurate. On the other hand, some of the surveys it categorizes as 'partial' are more complete than those it calls "saved" (ie completed), and I have manually deleted many partials if I could see that they were either empty or had only the first page filled out, which would make the completion rate even lower than 50%. I figure it makes sense that more people would be curious to see what it was about than would be interested in doing it, and also figure that the IRB form they encounter first would turn some people off. My survey is pretty long too, so I'm not surprised to have a lot of drop outs along the way. I am curious to hear others' experiences too. Nancy
I currently have an online survey underway, and as it slogs along, it has made me curious about something. What, generally, do people find to be the completion rate of their online surveys? This is a stat to which I probably wouldn't have access in a traditional paper survey -- I wouldn't be able to differentiate between people who started the questionnaire and didn't complete it, and those who just didn't fill it out at all -- so it's an interesting feature of this survey format. I'm finding that so far, with my survey the completion rate is hovering around 80%. Is that similar to others' experiences?
And FWIW, it's a survey about interactive media use and horse race betting in the U.S. So if any of you bet on horse racing in the U.S. with any regularity, or know someone who does, feel free to scurry on over to (or send them to):
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4hvRfxac4nysaLPYd_2bzIlg_3d_3d
Although really, I'm publicizing it in horse racing forums. But I am curious to hear about completion rates of others' online surveys.
Holly
-- Holly Kruse Faculty of Communication The University of Tulsa 600 S. College Ave. Tulsa, OK 74104 918-631-3845 holly-kruse@utulsa.edu or holly.kruse@gmail.com http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~holly-kruse
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Nancy wrote:
By completion do you mean how many of those who click through to it actually finish it?
Yes.
On the survey I'm running right now I have WAY less than 80% completion rate. It is more like 55%, which I think is on a par with the last one I did. The "completion" figures are off too, though, because SurveyGizmo (which I am very happy with BTW) calls things completed if people went through to the last page even if they didn't do large sections of the stuff in between,
I think that's what's happening with SurveyMonkey too. I added "Not applicable" as a choice to virtually all of my non-demographic closed-ended questions, so that may be helping with my completion rate, so far. Despite the various recommendations for other online survey services (including SurveyGizmo :-), so far I'm quite happy with SurveyMonkey. I mainly stuck with it because it's the one I included in my original internal grant application -- including its information on pricing, privacy policies, and the rest -- and heaven forbid that I should decide to switch to another service and have to go through the IRB again to get all that approved! But so far, so good. Holly
it's just an observation, but I was discussing this the other night with some colleagues and the consensus seemed to be that RSS has affected the temporality of blogging, and the expectation that your blog be updated daily. I have about 500 blogs I've subscribed to via RSS, yet some of those only get updated once or twice a year. I don't really unsubscribe from a blog unless I find I don't like it any more or I'm getting swamped with posts. Whereas a year or two ago, I had about 50 blogs bookmarked, and any blog that wasn't updated for a few weeks was dropped. -- -- Barry Saunders http://investigativeblog.net http://youdecide2007.net --------------------- PhD Candidate // researcher http://creativeindustries.qut.edu.au ph: 07 3138 0155 skype: barry_saunders (CRICOS No. 00213J) On 8/10/07, Aleks Krotoski <akrotoski@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello, I was wondering if anyone's done any research or has any insight into how often people remove friends from buddy lists. Is there Buddy churn in Instant Messaging or on Social Networking sites? On RSS feeds or on Blogrolls? In virtual worlds or MMOGs?
Absolutely any pointers/directions/references welcomed!
Thanks very much, Aleks PhD candidate, University of Surrey http://www.toastkid.com
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With the American teens that I study, folks do not delete friends from social network sites unless they had a fight or broke up (romantic relations and friendships). In other words, deletion is an explicit, rude, intentional, and mean act that is meant to be a rejection. That said, when they switch networks or create a new account (often because they forgot their password), they don't add everyone back that they had before. So the "churn" is more a matter of new systems, new valuing of people. This is really noticeable in IM where they create new accounts more often (because their handle is lame, because they didn't want someone to see them, because it's a new school year, whatever). I can't remember if i've ever written this up properly (I'm blurring what I've written, said, and blogged about)... In a blog post, i documented some fieldnotes about breakups: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/04/02/ relationship_pe.html danah On Aug 10, 2007, at 5:20 AM, Aleks Krotoski wrote:
Hello, I was wondering if anyone's done any research or has any insight into how often people remove friends from buddy lists. Is there Buddy churn in Instant Messaging or on Social Networking sites? On RSS feeds or on Blogrolls? In virtual worlds or MMOGs?
Absolutely any pointers/directions/references welcomed!
Thanks very much, Aleks PhD candidate, University of Surrey http://www.toastkid.com
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