G-News 2018 2 | Page 17

Our team created a survey that was focused mainly on the way which social media affects us in our daily lives and the negative ways it may impacts us. We included the main questions that would help us with our analysis. We interviewed 21 people in total, the first question being, “Do you use social media?” The statistics obtained where that 95.2% (20 people) did use social media and 4.8% (1 person) did not use social media, in addition we included the next question, “Has your privacy ever been violated because of social media?” 61.9% (13 people) answered no and 38.1% (8 people) answered yes. With these answers we are able to see the percentage that has had their privacy violated because of social media. The next question that we have is “Have you ever been cyber bullied through social media?” 66.7 %(14 people) answered no and 33.3% (7 people) answered yes. We continued with our survey asking, “What social media do you use the most?” the options were: Snapchat 23.8% (5 people), Facebook 4.8% (1 person), Twitter 0%, Instagram 57.1% (12 people) and others 14.3% (3 people). From this questions´ answers we were able to analyze that the social media most used by the majority of the participants is Instagram which is 12 people whereas twitter is the least used social media with 0% usage from people. The next question was “About how many hours a day do you spend on social media?” the options were 0-1 hours 4,8% (1 person), 1-2 hours 23,8% (5 people), 2- 3 hours 28,6% (6 people), over 3 hours 42,9% (9 people) the results obtained helped us analyze that the majority of people use social media for over three hours and the remaining use social media for an approximate of 2 hours. After having questions that were mostly multiple choice and classified as closed questions we decided to include open questions that would help us obtain a better analysis, one of these questions being “Has social media ever prevented you from completing any tasks? If yes explain how.” A conclusion from these open questions was harder to obtain, but it did allow us to analyze more areas of what people thought; 5 people answered no and the remainder (16 people) answered yes, it did keep them from completing tasks such as homework because they often got sidetracked. Another open question was “Does social media ever affect your sleeping schedule? If so what time?” For this question 12 people answered that social media did not interrupt their sleeping schedule and the other 9 people said, ”yes” it interrupted their sleeping schedule. The last question we included in order to complete our social media