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Some survey on LJ
Friday, June 26th, 2009 09:11 pmAnthro student doing some survey on LJ for her research. It's mostly about the relations between the company and the userbase. I was rather unsure how to answer the question about who is higher in the relationship, SUP or the users, or are they equals? Just how am I supposed to answer that anyhow? On one hand, a company is always more powerful than a singular user (or most users, maybe not if you're Warren Buffet or something), but if this is so, then it's a meaningless question.
Anyway, I wonder what the point of this survey is, since it seems almost like it would be difficult to survey the quiet people who are mostly satisfied, and you don't need a survey to measure the dissatisfaction of people who hang around say, the news comms or whatever. It seems to me a really interesting research project would focus on questions like whether LJ is gaining or losing active members and getting more or fewer legitimate (non-spam) posts, or determining how many spambots there are, or some data-focused things.
Actually now, I'd like to see some research on Tumblr. Must see if I can find any.
Anyway, I wonder what the point of this survey is, since it seems almost like it would be difficult to survey the quiet people who are mostly satisfied, and you don't need a survey to measure the dissatisfaction of people who hang around say, the news comms or whatever. It seems to me a really interesting research project would focus on questions like whether LJ is gaining or losing active members and getting more or fewer legitimate (non-spam) posts, or determining how many spambots there are, or some data-focused things.
Actually now, I'd like to see some research on Tumblr. Must see if I can find any.
