Social Media behaviour of Engineers

Hello engineering community,

I am currently completing my studies at Rotterdam Business School. I am conducting research into the digital behaviour of engineers & the role of social media.
This survey is designed to gain insight into your digital behaviourism, more specifically:
(1) Internet preferences
(2) Social Media patterns
(3) Professional usage of digital(online) medium(s).

The survey contains a variety of questions about your daily online activities, strictly in a fashion which makes us understand a pattern, without giving out any personal information about yourself.
The following questionnaire will require approximately 15 minutes to complete.

I highly appreciate it if you would take some of your time to fill in the survey. Thank you in advance.

15 minutes? For a survey like that, I need compensation!

stephanDJ:
Hello engineering community,

I am conducting research into the digital behaviour of engineers & the role of social media.

Does this mean we can only answer with a 0 or 1?

I almost lost the will to live half way through the questionnaire.

Ah, me, too. I'm not selecting from a huge list of times to say when I do what. This feels too much like work.

Poorly worded questions. Asking which device I prefer to use to connect to the internet, then parenthetically telling me that I must choose the device I actually use more often? Bad. What I would prefer to use and what I actually use more are two different devices.

Well, I went through the whole thing, based on my pre-retirement occupation.
I noticed two main problems:

  1. Failure to include email and forums as forms of social media.
  2. Failure to notice the differences between "internal" networking (sometimes called intra-nets) and the greater Internet.
    (for example, at work I would spend all day "on-line" on the internal network, including using various forms of internal social networking. But much less time on the external network.)

PS: Engineers don't behave "socially", they behave anti-socially. :slight_smile:

Q: How do you tell an extroverted engineer?

A: They stare at -your- feet while talking to you.

Y'know, it very well may be that he's simply testing how engineers respond to requests to fill out paperwork. Those psychologists are a tricky bunch.