Social Networks Threats Survey

This survey is intended to help mapping mainstream social networks' impact, perceived or actual threats related to them, perception of these, and possible ways of handling them.

This survey is anonymous. No potentially identifying data (like IP addresses, user-agent strings, etc) will be logged nor used in the analysis.

There are 2 sections in this survey. The first one is the questionnaire with 5 questions pertaining to your use of mainstream social networks. All these questions need to be answered for the survey to be considered complete. The second section contains 4 personal questions that will help us in the analysis of gathered data; these questions are not required, but answers would be very helpful.

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Section I. Survey Questionnaire

Questions in this section important and must be completed. These 5 questions will help us understand and map people's use and attitudes towards mainstream social networks.

Question 1: While using or considering use of mainstream social networks (such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter or similar), do you perceive any problems related to policy and practices of their owners?

Please select an option.

{% set q1 = [ "I use these social networks and do not perceive any problems at all", "I use these social networks and sometimes perceive problems, but usually it doesn't matter", "I use these social networks but I constantly consider such problems, and make decisions regarding which of these social networks I use because of this", "I am a very rare user of these social networks because of these problems", "I do not use these social networks because of these problems", "I do not use these social networks at all or use them seldom regardless of these problems" ] %} {% for q in q1 %}

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Question 2: With regard to mainstream social networks (as listed in question 1.), please mark how serious you perceive problems to be in the given areas.

While evaluating problems of using social networks please use the scale:

  1. there are no problems;
  2. there are some problems, but I do not consider them significant; they do not influence my use or choice of mainstream social networks;
  3. there are some problems that influence my use or choice of mainstream social networks;
  4. there are significant problems that influence heavily my use or choice of mainstream social networks;
  5. because of these problems in this area I do not use mainstream social networks.

Please select options in the highlighted areas. Please indicate other areas if option "other" is selected.

{% set q2 = [ "security of my privacy and negotiating position with regard to commercial relations (e.g. insurance company, bank, lender, etc)", "security of my information with regard to relations with public administration / government", "security of my information with regard to personal, social, family relations", "manipulation of or influence over my perception of the world", "risk of making my personal information available to third parties outside my control (e.g. to social network's operator's business partners)", "risk of losing control over my information/data/contacts stored within the social network (e.g. due to censorship, factual or apparent policy violation, change of business model, etc)", "risk of sudden one-sided negative change to terms of service of the social network", "risk of losing access to third-party services (e.g. those that use the social network as authentication provider)", "(optional) other not mentioned above (please indicate):" ] %} {% for q in q2 %}

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Question 3: In your opinion, should some of the information you supply to the mainstream social networks you use not be used for commercial purposes?

Please select an option.

Question 4: Who should exercise control and oversight to resolve problems with using mainstream social networks?

You may indicate several options.

Please select at least one option.

{% set q4 = [ "there is no such need", "the social network itself", "social network and other enterprises, in cooperation", "social network and public administration, in cooperation", "public administration" ] %} {% for q in q4 %}

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Question 5: Please select (in your opinion) the best solution to resolve problems with using mainstream social networks.

Please select an option.

{% set q5 = [ "there is no such need", "market forces will be sufficient to resolve these problems.", "self-regulation in this sector will be sufficient mechanism to resolve these problems.", "legal regulation is needed to resolve these problems" ] %} {% for q in q5 %}

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Section II. Personal Information

We would like you to answer a few additional questions which will enable us to better understand public opinion in this area. All answers are absolutely anonymous and will be used only in a consolidated statistical report.

We recognize these are sensitive questions, and understand not everyone is willing to answer them. Feel free to ignore this whole section or individual questions, if you feel uncomfortable with them.

Question 1: Do you prefer to identify as...

When providing free-form description, please limit its length to 1024 characters

{% set q1 = [ "Female", "Male", "Genderfluid", "Agender/Neutral/Neither", "Pangender/Non-binary", "None of your business", "Other (please indicate):" ] %} {% for q in q1 %}

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Question : Your age {% set q2 = [ " < 18", "19 - 24", "25 - 30", "31 - 35", "36 - 40", "41 - 45", "46 - 50", " > 50" ] %} {% for q in q2 %}
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Question 3: What is your occupation (please select the most relevant option)? {% set q3 = [ "student", "full- or part-time empolyee", "freelancer", "entrepreneur", "other" ] %} {% for q in q3 %}
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Question 4: What is your education level?

Please select the highest level.

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Your Comments: Please share any comments you might have

We value your input; if you have any comments about the survey, its topic, composition, etc., we would greatly appreciate if you shared them. Please limit your comment to 1024 characters.

Please note: text supplied in this field cannot be longer than 1024 characters

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