Survey Analysis 29.04.2016

Survey Analysis

Introduction

This survey was conducted as part of an Erasmus project which has been running since November 2015 and is expected to be completed by June 2017 under the general title “Social Media and ICT: opportunities for learning” and with the collaboration of six European schools of secondary education (Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Latvia and Poland).

This particular survey is one of the activities of the program and aims to research the habits of both teenagers and adults and the ways they use Social Networks in their everyday life.

Results

As can be seen from graphs 1 to 3 the survey was conducted during March 2016 and was answered by 610 students and 71 teachers of all six schools which participated in the program. Latvia was the country, which mostly answered the questions (32,5% of the students and 28,2% of the teachers), while Spain had the lowest contribution as far as students are concerned (7,9%) and Poland had the lowest contribution of teachers (9.9%). The majority of the student who answered the survey were between 14 and 16 years old while the majority of the teachers were from 35 to 54 years old.

As for the participants’ gender, the number of boys and girls who gave their answer was equal, while most of the teachers were female (69%).

17. 4. Which of the following social networks do you use/have used?

Results:

The most used social network by students is Facebook (81.1%), followed closely by Youtube (79.3%) and Whatsapp (66.7%).

For teachers, the most popular social network is Youtube (88.7%), then Facebook (76.1%) and then Whatsapp (73.2%).

Conclusions:

Both use the same social networks with slight differences. This shows that these social networks are popular among all ages, most likely because they are made for with this purpose.

Q.5. Which of the following social networks do you use the most?

Results:

The students use Facebook the most (60%), followed by Whatsapp (56.2%) and Youtube (54.3%). Aside from that, a reasonable amount of students use Instagram (45.9%). The teachers use Facebook the most (63.4%), then Whatsapp (57.7%), then Youtube (45.1%). The Instagram is not very popular among teachers (14.1%).

Conclusions:

Teachers and students have mostly the same preferences, except for Instagram, which is more popular among teenagers.

Q.6. Why do you prefer this social network?

Results:

Students mostly use it because most of their friends use it (55.1%), it has interesting content (53.6%) and it is easy to use (48.2%).

For teachers, the most popular answer is that because it is easier to use (74.6%), because most of their friends use it (57.7%), and because it has interesting content (42.3%).

Conclusions:

We can say that the students' preferences are mostly based on the popularity, whereas the teachers' preferences are based on the accesibility of the social network.

Q.7. What do you use it for?

Results:

For students, they mostly use it to talk to their friends (77.9%), just for fun (51.8%) and to find information (46.9%).

As for teachers, they mostly use it to find information (57.7%) followed very closely by talking to their friends (56.3%) and keeping in touch with their friends and relatives that live far away (53.5%). Also a significant amount of teacher use it for educational purposes (42.3%), unlike students who don't do this frequently (16.6%).

Conclusions:

Both groups use social networks to talk to their friends and to find information. However, teachers seem to use it mainly for practical and educational purposes, while students use it more to have fun.

17. 8. How often do you use it?

Results:

The students' most popular answer is every day (56.4%) and more than once a day (36.6%). The teachers' are more or less the same; they mostly use it everyday (46.5%) and more than once a day (32.4%).

Conclusions:

Both are very active but students spend a little more time on social networks than the teachers.

Q.9. When you connect, how long do you stay online?

Results:

One quarter of the students say that they stay connected all day long through their mobile phones. The second most popular answer is that they stay connected for half an hour every day.

The teachers most popular answer (36,6%) is that they stay connected only for half an hour. Their second most popular answer is that they stay connected for only one hour(28,2%).

Conclusion:

A very significant amount of young people spend all of their time connected on the networks, while adults make more responsible use than the students.

Q.10. How often do you upload information on the social network(s) you use?

Results:

More than one quarter of the students upload information on the social networks once a week. The second most popular answer is that they upload information every day.

The teachers’ most popular answer is that more than one third of them upload something on the social networks once a week. The second most popular answer is uploading information every day.

Conclusion:

Young people upload more information than adults and they do it more often.

Q.11. What kind of personal data have you made public on the social networks (s) you use?

Results:

The students publicize their names mostly ( 89.5%). The second most popular answer is that they make public their date of birth (70.9%). Teachers give the same answers.

Conclusion:

Both students and teachers make public their names and date of birth.

Q.12. Do you think it is safe to upload this kind of data ?

Results:

Students’ and teachers’ answers are very different on this question : more than one third of students (37.2%) think that it is safe, while more than half of the teachers suppose that making public your personal data (50,7%) is not safe.

Conclusion:

Both students and teacher think that public personal date isn't safe but they do it.

Q.1. Which of the personal data named above should NEVER be made public on a social network in your opinion?

Results:

The students' 3 most popular answers are bank account numbers (82%), ID numbers (72%) and addresses (70.7%). The teachers' 3 most popular answers are bank accounts (97.2%), ID numbers (78.9%) and addresses (76.1%).

Conclusions:

They give the same answers, with the difference being that the teachers percentages are higher, which shows that adults are more aware of the possible dangers of uploading personal data, so they are expected to be a little more responsible than students.

Q.14. Do you know the safety rules which apply to the social network(s) you use?

Results:

The students mostly answered “yes” (78.5%), only a small amount of students said “no” (15.7%) and an even smaller amount said that there are no safety rules (5.7%).

The teachers mostly answered “yes” (73.2%), and just like students, a small amount of teachers said “no” (21.1%) and an even smaller amount said that there are no safety rules (5.6%).

Conclusions:

Almost everyone says they know the safety rules.

17. 15. (for students) Do your parents allow you to use social networks without any supervision?

Q.15. (for teachers) Would you allow your children / students to use social networks without any supervision?

Results:

Almost half of the students say that they their parents don’ t supervise them when they use the media (43.1%). Almost 1/3 of the students say that they can use the media unsupervised but their parent have warned them about proper use (39.8%). A small number of children say that they don’ t need permission (11%) .

As for the teachers a big majority of them says that they warned their children before letting them to use the media (73.2%).

Conclusion:

Many students use social network without any supervision but another big amount say that their parents warned them about certain dangers. As for teachers, the biggest amount say that they also warn their students and children.

Q.16. Do you make friends on the social networks that you use?

Results:

1/3 of the students says that they only use networks to communicate with their regular friends (34.4%). Another 1/3 says that they might make a friend who seems really interesting (30%). A smaller percent of the students stays with their real life friends (24.4%).

As for the teachers, 40% of them do not make friends on networks, another 30% use the networks to communicate with their regular friends, while 26.8% of them might make friends over the network.

Conclusion:

They both mostly say they don’t make friends on the internet and they usually use social networks to talk with their real life friends, and the ones that do make friends on the net say they only talk with really interesting individuals.

Q.17. Have you ever met any of your "network friends" in real life?

Results:

More than half of the students says that they wouldn't do that because they have been warned against(54.3%). But there is an important percentage of students (36.6%) who have actually done this.

The same goes for teachers but the percentage of negative answers is larger (74.6%).

Conclusion:

The majority of both students and teachers say you should avoid such dates, but there’s also a reasonably high amount of students and teachers who say that they meet their network friends in real life .

17. 18. Have you ever felt uneasy, offended or scared after chatting with someone on a social network?

Results :

Most of the students say they have never felt uneasy chatting with someone (44.6%). Another big percentage has heard people who have had problems like that (31.6%), though.

Most of the teachers also say that they know people who had this problem (47.9%) but there is another large percentage of them that says they have never had this problem (22.5%). On the other hand, there is also a small and important percentage of teachers that says that they have had this problem more than once (18.3%).

Conclusion:

The majority of both students and teachers says that they have never had this problem or they just heard about others having it. Another important percentage of teachers says that they felt uneasy more than once .

19. If your previous answer was Yes, what was it that scared, offended or upset you?

RESULTS:

From the amount of people that says they had a problem using the networks the majority of both students (30.8%) and teachers (54.8%) says that they heard offensive language or vulgar comments . The second big percentage of students is that they was mocked (27.4%) and for the teachers the second big percentage is that they had been shown inappropriate photos or videos (41.9%).

CONCLUSION:

The most common problem for both age groups when they use the networks is that that they have to deal with inappropriate material . But both groups also mention a significant amount of cyber - bulling cases (¼ of the answers from both age groups mention that users had been mocked while connected)

Q.20. Did you talk to someone about it?

Results:

The most of them say “Yes, I wouldn't keep something like that a secret.” (42.2%), another high amount say “No, I don't feel comfortable talking about such things.” (21.6%) and some of them also say no because they were threatened not to talk to anyone (19.3%). As for teachers, most of them say “Yes, I wouldn't keep something like that a secret.” (64.1%), another high amount say “Not immediately, but after some time I did, because I got really upset / scared.” (25.6%), and some say “No, I don't feel comfortable talking about such things.” (7.7%)

Conclusions: Both of them answered mostly the same but most of the teachers say they eventually talk to someone about it, but students mostly avoid doing it because they don't feel comfortable or they get threatened not do so.

Q.21. If yes, who did you talk to?

Results:

Students would mostly talk to their friends (70%), their parents (33%) and a small amount to their teachers (13%). Most of the teachers talk to their friends (52.9%) and just as many amount talk to their colleagues (52.9%), and some of them talk to their family (38.2%).

Conclusions: This shows that both students and teachers feel more comfortable talking about this with their friends rather than with their family.

Q.22. (for students) Did the people you talk to help you?

Q.22. (for teachers) Did you manage to help your student?

Results:

Results show that students are mostly able to get help (70.4%), sometimes they don't get good results (11.9%) and occasionally they want help but they don't know what to do (9.3%). For teachers, most of the time they are able to give help (81.6%), sometimes they wanted to give help but they didn't know what to do (13.2%), and occasionally they weren't able to get any results (5.3%).

Conclusions: We can conclude that it is a good idea to ask for help because it is possible to get help most of the time so we shouldn't hold back.

Q.23. (fro students) How did they help you deal with the problem?

Q.23. (for teachers) How did you help him/her deal with the problem?

Results:

Most of the time students get advised to stop talking to that person (67.5%), and sometimes they are told to stop using the social networks (15.9%) or they have started to use the social networks together and the offences have stopped (15.9%). Most of the time teachers advised the victims to stop talking to that person (77.8%), sometimes they told them to stop using social networks (16.7%) and sometimes they contacted the authorities because the situation became serious (13.9%).

Conclusions:

Since the most given advise is to stop talking to that person entirely, we can conclude that is the smartest action to take.

GENERAL CONCLUSION:

From the survey we can conclude that both age groups have almost the same results in most questions. So all of them are familiar with both advantages and problems of using Social Networks.

However, students stay connected to the social networks all day long while teachers stay only for an hour or an hour and a half. So, we can conclude that the young people are more addicted to the media than older people.

An other important difference is that students don't realize how dangerous it is to upload personal data on the internet while adults are much more cautious in that area.

Finally, an important conclusion that can be made by the final questions is that young people should turn to adults (teachers or parents) for help in the cases they face problems when communicating through the social media. Most of them are more than willing to help them. At the same time, though, adults may need some kind of information from proper institutions and authorities, so that their help can be more effective.