VISCOM: Student Work

Hi, I’m Brianna, and I am a lot of things. I am a softball player. I am an editor of the school magazine. I am usually ten minutes late to every social event that I’m invited to in fear of being the first one there. I am forgetful, I am disorganized, and I am creative, but I am also curious.

You see, the other day I was going through my old YouTube channel when I came across a video that I posted in 2011. It was a cover of me and my best friend at the time singing “It’s Time” by Imagine Dragons. My mind went to the worst-case scenario, and I quickly attempted to delete it in fear of someone in my life now seeing it and using it against me.

Once my past had been deleted, I quickly grew more curious to see who else in my life has felt this way—who else has felt the need to delete something from their social media in fear of someone in their life currently seeing it. Eventually my curiosity took over, and I created a survey to see how many people had actually deleted some of their social media posts. And here’s what I found, in a little segment I like to call “Takedownology”—hashtag the final takedown.

In my survey I was able to conjure up 40 participants, 27 of them being female and 13 of them being male. They were all ages 18 to 24, were all in some way pursuing their degree—36 people pursuing their undergrad degree and 4 people pursuing their grad degree. So all the people in my survey are digital natives and very well versed in social media.

I found that the most popular social media was Facebook, with a 95% usage rating, followed by Twitter, with an 85% usage rating; followed by Instagram, with a 70% usage rating; and followed by YouTube, with a 12.5% usage rating.

Breaking down the social media even further—of the 95% of people who said that they use Facebook on a regular basis, 47% of people admitted to deleting something off of their profile. Facebook had the lowest percentage of people deleting stuff off of their profile, and that is to be believed because Facebook gives you the option to edit your posts for clarity or for understanding. On Facebook, posts that contained political or controversial topics were the most popular things to be deleted on this platform.

Moving on to our next social media platform—Twitter. We found that of its 85% participants, 58% of them have admitted to deleting something on their timeline. The biggest reason why people are deleting stuff on Twitter, according to my survey, is because there was a typo in the original post, so therefore it was deleted and often retyped so it could be reposted.

Moving on to our next social media platform—Instagram. We found that of the 70% of people that used it in the survey, 60% of them had deleted something off of their dashboard. And the reason why people on Instagram often deleted their posts was because they were not popular enough or they were not getting enough likes. That is a big thing on Instagram, and according to the people in my survey, it was more important to them to take it down rather than keep it there.

Last but not least, on the social media platform YouTube, of the five people that said that they use it on a consistent basis, four people have said that they’ve deleted something off of their channel. With that being said, they said that they deleted a video that did not represent them in the current state that they are in, as well as that they wanted to make content without that video being a reminder of where they started.

In conclusion, I think that everyone has their own reasons for deleting a post on social media. But I mean, as long as we are all putting forth our best selves on the platforms, I think that we can create a world that is much nicer and a much better place to be in. Thanks for watching and I’ll see you guys next time. Bye.

Hello everyone, this is Hanisha Kawa. Today I’d like to talk about a survey I did. My target for this survey was college students.

This is the pie chart, and I categorized people by age. As you can see, most of the people I surveyed were 21 to 26 years old—blue was 16.1%, both red and orange were 38.7%, and green was only 6.5% of the total.

The next thing I asked was gender. 32.3% of the total were female and 67.7% of the total were male. There was nobody that answered LGBTQIA.

So it’s time to talk about search engines. Maybe this is obvious, but 96.8% of the total students answered that they prefer Google, and only 3.2% of students use Firefox. This means Google rules college students.

People who answered yes to this question were 77.4% of the total. People who answered no to this question were 22.6% of the total. This means more than half of students have ended up looking at a website that wasn’t what they intended while studying.

To that question, 71% of males answered yes, and 90% of females answered yes. As a result, I can say females get disrupted more than males.

33% of females answered that net surfing affected their GPA and 60% of males also answered that net surfing affected their GPA. Two interesting things—females get disrupted more, but more males said net surfing affected their GPA than females.

People whose GPA was affected by net surfing tend to watch comedy and also sports sites.

The name for this disorder is net-surfaholic. “Net-surfaholic” is a term for net surfing that results in problems. This disorder is often seen in college, and there is a high possibility that this could disrupt your studies and decrease your GPA.