Facebook Usage Survey

I like Facebook and am a casual member. There is a lot I like and some things I do not like. It makes it too easy to accidentally broadcast stuff to your friends when you do not want to. I get too many invites for things I am not interested in as a result. However, I use it as a friendly informal business networking channel. I am just careful in how I use it. For example, I just deleted Fun Wall (see post yesterday - found below for explanation). I also use LinkedIn.

Here is a survey on Facebook that I got from Jim McGee. It looks at our presentation of self on facebook. It is a 28 question survey that takes about 5 minutes to complete. The results can be seen immediately after you finish. They will keep this survey open until April 20, 2008. The organizer asked us to circulate this to friends so they can get a broad stroke of Facebook users. Give it a try.

Here are some of the highlights of what I found after I finished the survey. Remember this is a very biased sample of people willing to spend time on this survey found within Facebook. The results give you some look at the demographics of the respondents.

89% have access to Facebook at school or work
44% are on Facebook several times a day
81% also belong to LinkedIn, 53% are on You Tube, and 41% are on MySpace
91% use a real photo of themselves
90% mix personal and professional contacts and 17% have more than 100 Facebook friends.
77% have use Facebook for business relationships
80% were professional of some type and not students

These results make sense to me but I am not in the majority in some cases.