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Participants | 1. What was the last feed you interacted with? Open that feed and show it on camera. How often do you check this feed? Thinking about how often you check this feed, do you wish you checked it less? More? Do you check it just the right amount now? Explain! Score: 9% Magnitude: | 2. When you first look at your feed, is the content new, or do you see the same content from your previous visit? Tell us (with examples) about the extent to which the content is new or old, and how that impacts your experience, if at all. Score: 2% Magnitude: | 3. What are the first 3 items/pieces of content you see in your feed during this visit? . How well do these first 3 items meet your goal for coming to this feed? How far do you have to scroll down before you see something you want to stop and investigate? Score: 5% Magnitude: | 4. Once you see item(s) of interest, how easy or difficult is it to grasp the message of the item and move on? If you decide to investigate an item of interest further, explain how easy or difficult it is to learn about that item further. Score: 14% Magnitude: | 5. Look at an item of interest in your feed. What is the source? How much do you trust or distrust the content? Why? Score: 4% Magnitude: | 6. Do you ever save things from your feed to look at later? If you do, what was the last item you remember saving? how easy or hard do you find what you saved? Score: 9% Magnitude: | 7. How easy or difficult is it to share items from your feed with people (people who are important to you and who you think might enjoy the content)? Explain. Score: 10% Magnitude: | 8. When viewing your feed, talk about the moment you decide to leave the content and why. What would cause you to potentially leave the feed (assuming you were not participating in this study)? Score: 21% Magnitude: | 9. Once you find an item of interest in your feed and want to engage more deeply, please discuss the extent to which you are able to find and use controls (e.g. read full article, comment, share) to let you interact with the content in ways that satisfy your goal(s). Score: 4% Magnitude: | 10. Think about the point when you’ve seen enough content to satisfy your need for this feed visit. Do you feel like you have scrolled too long or not enough? How do you feel about your ability to stop your feed visit and return to what you were originally doing? Explain. Score: 2% Magnitude: |
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cindy s. 63 F | New Jersey | — UID: 283155 Unassigned Score: 7% Magnitude: | Hello. Currently, Facebook is the application that I-- the feed that I check the most on my phone. Let's see if you can see it better. There we go. I check it multiple times a day. There was a point in my life where I had to get off Facebook because I was getting too sucked into all the political comments, and I weened myself off. But over the past few months, I've gotten back on it and I've learned to be very productive with it. I follow my exercise group, which is very motivational. I follow my local town's webpage and some community non-profits that I'm involved in, and it keeps me informed. And fun stuff too. | With Facebook, it's a little tricky about new or old content because the content can be old and if somebody comments like this, it pushes it up, and so you see it again. So oftentimes, I'll go on to Facebook, and usually when I first log in, it's all new. And then I'll usually scroll down until I start to see something that I've seen before. So like I said, if I'm scrolling and I hit upon something that I've seen before, that could be listed ahead of other feeds that I haven't seen, but I'll stop because I'll assume that I've seen everything else. And that I guess is where it could prevent me from seeing the posts. I usually check Facebook enough that it doesn't take long to find the old feeds. | Okay, let's see. So the first feed-- oh, it just switched again. Okay. The first feed is something that it-- [you can't see?]. The first feed is something that I'm going to just scroll right by. The second feed I'm going to scroll right by. And the third one is an ad. I'm scrolling to about three or four posts until I get to something that I would like to look at. It's a neighbor that has a garden, and she posts all kinds of cool things about farming and gardening. There were a couple of ads. One my college, and then the second one, I know that if I start to read this-- it's from my town parents page. I know there's 110 comments, and I know that I would just get. | In Facebook there are two ways that I can get sucked into it or, excuse me, how I can grasp it and how involved I get. Some articles are posts of other articles. So oftentimes, I have to actually click on the article to see what the post entails. I'll read the article. And then after that, I'll go down and read what other comment. So it's pretty easy, but sometimes I get caught up in the-- if it's a controversial item, there could be hundreds of comments, and then I can be stuck there for, if I have 10 minutes. But usually, right away, I can tell what the content it is and I'll know whether I want to focus on staying there or just keep scrolling. I usually go right past the ads. | Interesting. When I scroll down I see-- it's actually an ad on Facebook. And it's an ad for Peloton. And I will say that earlier today I stopped and looked at this. And actually, I don't have a Peloton. But I actually signed up for their app. From this ad I downloaded the app. I downloaded the app. And now I am possibly going to do some Peloton exercises, because I saw it on Facebook. | The only thing that I ever save from my feed on Facebook is sometimes recipes because they're usually longer than a screenshot. Most often, if I want to save something from Facebook, I don't use their save function. I just take a screenshot because then I have it. But last time I saved anything was a recipe for Brussel sprouts and sweet potatoes that I saw on there or sometimes I will, yeah. I don't usually save an article or anything. I'll usually go back and try to find it, which I probably should save. But Facebook doesn't make it that easy to retrieve saved items. | Thing about sharing on Facebook, it's very easy. All you have to do is push a button to share a post. What I tend to do is I don't necessarily share a lot of things myself for the public to see. What I do is I share it privately. For example, I just shared an article that came up. I'm going to go into the messenger app on Facebook and see what it was because I know I just shared something. This was a sad thing. I saw on Facebook that a friend, a roommate of a friend of mine passed away from COVID and I shared it privately to my friend and my college roommates. I saw it on Facebook and I shared if privately. I didn't want to share it with the general population. | I have to admit that it takes me a while to leave the content. Usually, there's time restraint. I'm waiting in line for something, or I'm in the car waiting for my son, or I'm eating lunch. There's very rarely that I just stop looking at things. I could really be sucked down this rabbit hole for a long time if I didn't have anything else to do. | As I mentioned previously, I just recently privately shared an article and it was very easy to do. It's very easy to click on the real article. You read it. And then after you're done reading, below there are comments. You could comment, which I did. I commented that I was sorry to hear the news. And then I privately shared it to my individual friends' Facebook pages. So it was very, very easy to do. Sometimes I'll see an affirmation posted or I will see a article about a cause that I feel deeply about. And then I'll share that to the general population. And sometimes, I might put it into my story. But I don't really do that all that often. | Sometimes I realize that half an hour has passed, and I'm still scrolling. Or I've been redirected from an article to another article. I also didn't talk about-- sometimes when I look at a video on Facebook, what happens is after you watch the video that you clicked on, it will start showing you other videos. And usually they're related to the type of content of the first video that you're watching. For example, for some reason, I see a lot of posts that Kelly Ripa, articles or videos from Kelly Ripa show. I'm not really sure why, but I tend to watch them. The other night I wanted to go to bed early. And I realize that an hour later I'm still sitting here reading my Facebook feed, which is just not really something that I want to. |
Alfonso A. 27 M | Surfside | Florida UID: 286963 Unassigned Score: 12% Magnitude: | Hey. So here is Instagram. I check it daily for about five hours total a day, I would say. And I would like to check it less because, most of the time, it's a distraction from being more productive. Although it could be motivational and I could use it to promote art and stuff like that, for the most part, it's very easy to get distracted on it. So I try to stay away from it unless I need it to push something that makes me money or to connect with people. Although it's less genuine than connecting in real person, it's still a nice tool to connect. So yeah. | So when I open up my feed on Instagram, first thing I see is new. Oh look, it just refreshed. So that's some kind of meme right there, which it just refreshed right now. So most of the time when I open up my feed, it's a new thing. Scrolling down, more new things to add right there. [If I?] keep scrolling I see more new things. So I think that it impacts my experience in the sense that when I see that there's new things, I am more engaged and I scroll more because it's a sense of keeping up to date with what's going on with the accounts that I follow. | So, when I first open my feed on Instagram, the first three things that show up is a quote right there from Joe Dispenza, Ravina, a music artist I follow, and another quote, a positivity quote of some sort. So I'll probably keep scrolling for a minute or two more, and then I'll be satisfied. Usually, it'll just be that long. Just keeping up to date with the first few things. I'll keep scrolling, and there'll probably be 5 to 10 new posts during that scroll, and then I'll be fine with that. | So here's an example of a item of interest on my feed. [music] It just popped up right now, someone producing a beat, and I would watch the whole thing, enjoy it, and I would get the message from the post just like that. And if I were to want to investigate it further, I would click on the person's page, listen to more of their music. If I enjoyed that one, I would be like, "Oh, what else are they up to with this music stuff?" and I would probably look at a few more of their posts. And that's it. | Here's another item of interest on my feed with some art from this art account that I follow. And in terms of trust or distrust with this account, I'll say that I trust this account for this certain art style that I enjoy. It's a recurring art style on their page. And so I trust them for that art style and to be able to have that kind of thing on my feed. Because it's a recurring kind of art that I enjoy. So yeah. | So in terms of saving posts on Instagram, I don't really see the point in doing that. There's a marker there to save posts and keep track of them. I actually don't even know where the section is on Instagram to view those posts that are saved because again, I don't really use it at all. If anything, if I like a quote on my feed, I'll actually just screenshot it and keep it in my photo library. So I don't the feature to save posts on Instagram. | So the question was, how easy is it to share posts with the right people from my feed that I think would enjoy those posts. I would say that that is very, very easy to do. For example, this is a sponsored post here of a new song. But if I listened to that song, which sometimes I actually listen to these sponsored posts; the music. If I enjoy that song, and I think a friend of mine would enjoy it as well, it'd be really easy to just send it to one of my friends, and this is pretty accurate from the people that I most commonly DM as well. So it's very easy to DM something quickly to someone that I think-- that they would enjoy that post. So yeah. | So if I weren't even in this study and I was just scrolling through Instagram, how soon would I leave my feed? Well, let's start from the top. I would probably like that post. Oh, something new. Probably look at that. Probably see what's that real quick. Never mind. That's like a random sponsored post. I would probably stop-- ooh. Some food. Yummy. What should I get my girl on Valentine's Day? That looks fun and interesting. I want to do that. See, I'm kind of entertained from it. See, I'm already getting lost, and now the duration of the video's about to end. So I would say this would last like two to five minutes, and then I'd be done. | So if I find an item of interest on my feed that I want to look deeper into, for example, here is some yummy looking food, and it's kind of making me hungry. And I would go to that person's page, and I would see more of those treats, and I would be like, "Yum." And I would keep looking. Maybe it would tempt me to order something off Uber Eats, honestly. And, yeah, in terms of going somewhere to more deeply investigate an item of interest, very easy to do. I just go to the person's page, basically. So, yeah. Thank you for this opportunity, by the way. Y'all have a great day. I wonder if people say to that to you. You deserve. | So when it comes to how long I'm on my feed and when I'm done, I feel like I'm on there too long. Because I did say that on average, I would be on there for two to five minutes, but there's definitely times where that's extended and I get easily distracted. And it'll last like, 10, 15, sometimes even 20 minutes of just going down the rabbit hole of stuff on my feed, stuff on my Discover page. So definitely, it's fine in moderation. So I'll say that I'm pretty comfortable with how much I use it, but also would like to use it less. |
amber b. 38 F | Kentucky | — UID: 291556 Unassigned Score: 7% Magnitude: | So I'm going to show you a feed that I always check out. It's called Gypsea Lust. I love to travel. And I love fitness. So this girl, this influencer, travels everywhere. She's really beautiful and fit. And she also travels everywhere with her boyfriend. So these are all things that I aspire to be and that I love to do, one of my passions, travel and fitness. But it could be viewed as a negative thing if I'm constantly comparing myself to her because she does everything, but she does it really well. So I try to let it inspire me and be a positive thing, as opposed to a negative thing in my life. But I can see where-- then a comparison game would be hard. And it could be viewed as a negative thing. So I always try to be cognizant of that. | So the fact that I haven't seen these last four photos, so that kind of shows me the last time I checked. So that was four days ago, I guess. I haven't checked in a few days, but if she doesn't post often, then I wouldn't have a reason to really keep checking back. But because she's posting often, then I check her feed more often. | All right. So the first three things that I see-- there's a girl traveling, which I love to travel, but it's not that cool of a photo to have an inspirational quote thing. I do like those, but I read it and move on. Same kind of thing, and that's even too long to even read. This is [sort of?] like a funny thing, so I'll maybe click on the funny meme things. This is usually a funny site. So the videos, I'll click on maybe pretty photos. I'll just kind of-- the same one. Yeah, nothing super interesting. I feel like a lot of these are inspirational quotes stuff, and I'd rather see travel stuff, so maybe I need to follow [inaudible] | I would say trying to figure out how long things take to kind of investigate. It's a video. I'm going to say it's from a video. Okay. I get it. It's a funny joke. Let's see. The video's kind of the things I really need to investigate more, I guess. So this is a guy that I like to watch his videos, a hot guy dancing. Other than that, just kind of scroll on. So yeah, I think the videos obviously capture your attention more for longer if you get to sit there and watch it, obviously, instead of just scrolling by. | Okay. So I don't know what that was, but so this is an inspirational thing about travel. It says, if I can see it, "A good traveler has no fixed plans." So it's from couchsurfing.com. That's a legit site. I would trust that and kind of say that that's a good inspirational quote. It's not because of the site. It's because it's just a good quote, and it's not something that you can trust or not trust, necessarily. I'm not necessarily looking for medical information or anything on these sites. So this is more just for entertainment. I'm not trying to get news or facts or anything. | So the last things I saved were some stuff for a trip that I'm going on. So back to my files saved. And there's some pictures from Guatemala that I loved. I think it's accessible. It's easy to find. These are some houses that I was looking at, some ideas. I like this feature because, yeah, these are locations I want to travel to and I want to have them easily accessible so I can pull them up. So when I go there, I can see the kind of photos that they took. | Okay. So when I looked to see how easy it is to share, okay, so I go back up to here. I want to share it with my sister. This one, and I can hit send. So I think it's pretty easy to figure out. | So I guess each session, the moment I get off of here is usually I'm, I guess, I'm scrolling when I'm bored or have time in between something. So when I realize that I've been wasting too much time on social media, then I get off or if I have to go do something. So usually, it's just kind of like something I'm bored, I scroll through, look at a few things, and then I get off. It's not something that I want to spend super long amounts of time on. | The ease of use of navigating a post, so this is a pretty place in New York that I've been to. So if I wanted to share it with some friends that I went there with, I could or if I want to comment and say, "Okay, remember when we were here?" That's easy to do, if I want to like it, if I want to save. So I think everything's very straightforward, everything you want to do is basically right here on the post. So I don't see why that's an issue on this format. Yeah. It's really easy. Here's all your controls. You can easily like something here or you can double-tap and like a photo as well. | I think the things that I'm looking for that I feel satisfied is inspiration for travel because that's something I love to do. So, check. Inspiration for fitness, check. Loved ones, friends and family posting stuff, check. And there's some more fitness, and see, also something funny. So here's some funny memes. So, yeah, I'm looking for inspiration for travel, inspiration for fitness, my friends and family posts, and also comedy. So I think those are the four things that I look through that I would feel like okay, I got kind of those things covered, and then now I can go back to whatever I was doing. |
ANDREW M. 30 M | Atlanta | Georgia UID: 273435 Unassigned Score: 2% Magnitude: | So the last feed I checked was YouTube, and it is right here. I often check this feed anywhere between 10 to 20 times a day and I wish that I checked it less. It's a bit of a distraction. I think there's a happy medium between how much I check currently and not checking it at all. I think that number probably is around 5 times a day. And I probably spend [about?], in total, 30 minutes to an hour every day on the feed. | Yeah, so oftentimes when I initially check the feed, the first few posts are new. But as I scroll, maybe to like the second or third frame, it's some of the same content from a previous video. But again, my example is YouTube. When it is the same content that I've seen before, it's kind of frustrating because it's like, "Why am I being offered this again when I've already seen it the first time?" I realize some people like to rewatch the same stuff over and over again, but for me, I'd rather see new content because that's what I think keeps drawing me in. If I see old content, then I'm more likely going to go check out a different feed or stop altogether. | So the first three items in my feed are-- let's see. The first one's an advertisement, so that's not what I want to see. Next one is-- yep. Next two, next three. Yeah. I'd say the first three are pretty accurate, things that I would want to see. In fact, I think the first five or so are things that I want to see. And so, yeah, it does meet the goal of mine for visiting this feed. But that's today. Sometimes, algorithm doesn't work too well. | So it's pretty easy to grasp the message of the item just by the title of the video on YouTube, as well as who the author is. With video format, if I do click on it and try to investigate, I can read the description or read the comments and kind of see if, one, the video is actually what I thought it was, and then, two, if the video is accurate. So I'll usually read the description and then check out the comments and then watch it if I think that it's worth my while. | So I'm looking at an item-- interest in my feed. Yeah, I trust the content. It's made by a TV show that I like to watch called Wild 'N Out. That's who produced the clip, who uploaded the clip. It features all the people that I know to be on the show. So it looks to me like it's genuine. So I trust it. | I do actually save items from my feed to watch later. YouTube has something called watch later. Currently, I have 445 unwatched videos that I've added. The last thing I added was last night, Best of Hood Jeopardy by Wild 'N Out. You can kind of see a theme here. And all I have to do is go to the watch later playlist to figure that out. It is sorted by the most recent, like the date that I added it. I can also sort it by popularity or the date published. However, you can't search in the watch later video. So for example, if I remember I liked a video about woodworking, but I can't remember when I uploaded or [inaudible] add it to the watch later list, that's kind of frustrating because I can't find that. | It's extremely easy to share items from my feed. All I have to do is just click on the item and then share. And then it has-- it takes me to-- I have an iPhone. So you can copy the link or send it in an iMessage or Facebook message in group meet. So I like how YouTube interfaces well with Apple. One thing that is hard to share is an Instagram post. That's pretty annoying because you can't just copy the image. You end up sending the whole post. So if that person's on private then you can't share that. Or if people don't have Instagram it's hard to share that as well. | So I think that we're talking about leaving the feed altogether, not just leaving the certain post I'm looking at. If I'm scrolling through the feed and there's nothing interesting, then I'll leave it. If, obviously, I have to go do something else, then I would leave it. Or if the feed has technical difficulties and it's taking a long time to load or something like that, yeah, I just-- or if the feed keeps showing me the same posts I've already seen or already watched, then I would leave. | So it's real simple on YouTube to interact with and engage the content. Right underneath the video, you can see like, dislike, share, download, save. And right underneath that, you have the creator. And right underneath that, there's the comment section. So it's well labeled, intuitive, and very easy to interact with. It's not a lot of thinking that I have to do. And what's nice is, in addition to the actual words like share, download, there's icons. If you share, there's the arrow, kind of like when you send a message there's always the arrow you hit before you send the message, so it's intuitive. Download has the download arrow with a line underneath. So very easy to interact with. | So personally I feel like it's a bit of a distraction and I feel like I scroll too long, but that's me. I'm a very regimented, try to be disciplined kind of person. So I always feel like I scroll too long. My ability to stop my feed visit [and to return to originally?] what I'm doing, not very high. Not lately at least. I think that with the feed, there's just so many new things that you can just scroll. You just can get lost down the rabbit hole of the internet. So they do a very good job of keeping you entangled in the feed and it makes it actually very hard to leave. |
brian a. 45 M | Shelley | Idaho UID: 240526 Unassigned Score: 1% Magnitude: | So lately what I've been looking at is I look at the Marketplace on Facebook for what kind of stuff people are selling. Just to browse around things like that. I will also look at my groups and see what they're selling inside my groups. I also check out-- just for funsies, I will go to the job section and see what kind of stuff they got going on in town just out of curiosity and that's about it. | So when I look at the job filter on it, it does have hourly, monthly, yearly pay that you can go by. It also has how far, or you can search jobs like that. I usually has all the new stuff at the beginning when you log back in. The Marketplace will have the newer stuff upfront as well. So if you have something that you want to watch or want to look at, you need to save it in the thing. So if I wanted to look at this, I would save it like that, and then that way, I don't have to dig through everything to try and find it. | So on my feed, I do have the Browe All right here. The [white?] shopping allows you to do quite a bit of stuff, and then I check my notifications. Those are the first three things that I use off of this feed a lot, and it doesn't take me very long to find something I want because it refreshes and puts everything up at the top the way I have it set up. So that I can see whatever that I want and go to it that way. So it's pretty quick. | Okay. So if I see something I want to look at, so say I wanted to look at this right here which is-- it says it's [reloading?] equipment. And it's in [Blackfoot?] area. This doesn't really say a whole lot of what it is. Basically, they're selling brass. But it'll tell you the condition and things. It will tell you where they're at, what they're asking for. You can also send messages to people. It doesn't take a whole lot. So this one for video games, pays cash for all your unwanted games and consoles and stuff. So [inaudible] say PS3, Nintendo, all that kind of stuff. And then you can send them actual messages if you need to off of here. And this is your save button. So if I wanted to save it to look at in future references on it, then I can do that as well. | So on my feed, one thing that I get is my local stuff, my local news. This is the Idaho State Journal. I do get all the southeastern Idaho stuff. I do get Idaho things as well. Some of them-- all they do is hook into national news and don't give you a really, I don't know, unbiased opinion. They give you a CNN and all those alphabet companies get it to you. I would rather have unbiased news [from?] stuff-- even my local news. Don't do that very much. I really don't have a lot of faith in the news companies right now. So that's just me. | Okay. Here is my feed again. I'll look at something new. We'll pull up this truck. So if I want to save, hit save, and then it's automatically saved. So when I go back out and I go up to where I need to go here, you can look at all your stuff off the main spot and you go and look down through everything - oh, there's a bunch of stuff on here now - they make it so that the saved stuff will automatically pop up when you go into it, and that makes it a lot easier for you to do that. | Okay. So this is the feed. If I wanted to-- say I wanted to share this item with-- you can actually save it. This button right here is the share button. You click that, it goes to your feed and you can also tag who you want to look at it. So when their feed pops up, it will show this on there and it will automatically bring it up on their feed as you put it for them as something to link to. It's really easy and allows you to share things with people that you want to. Like if I found something that mom and dad really wanted or something down in Utah where they live I could tag them and then they can look at it there. | So basically, the only thing that would cause me to leave a feed is if it would have a bunch of spam in it. You're getting items that were just like commercials, things like that, stuff like when you click on this you win this, stuff that isn't regulated. Then I would probably get out of things like that. But it would have to be something that would really push me to go out because I'm obviously going in these feeds just to look at what I want to. [I'm?] going to them for a reason. I don't just go into them and not go in. That's just what I think on that. | So one of the things that I think is really telling about a group, if I was to go into a group, one of mine, off my feed or anything like that, and go into the Marketplace if I wanted to look into something deeper, see this is bringing me miscellaneous stuff in the last 23 minutes, so say I want to look at this PS2 it pops up. It gives the ability to save it. I can message the individual and ask him any questions I have on it. I can share it on my feed to say my brother if he was looking for something like that. I can also-- if I find something that I think I need to hide, that I don't want to see in the future, you can hide that. It'll kind of make your own filter basically for you as well. You can also report a post if you needed to. | So on my feeds, a lot of things you can look at and a whole different, like electronics, whatever. I get to see all. And I mean, you can look for hours and hours and hours on here through stuff. And you can just get lost down wormholes if you go too far. I get to the point where I look at a few things that I'm looking at, and if I find three or four, I'll save them, and then I would get off and go back into doing whatever I was doing. And if I see somebody on, then say hi to them, whatever, and be on my way. But I don't like getting lost too far on things and wasting a whole lot of time. I'll just do what I need to. |
Amy L. 24 F | El Prado | New Mexico UID: 290798 Unassigned Score: 3% Magnitude: | The last feed I interacted with was Snapchat. This is a screen recording of my phone. And the only reason I interacted with it was because I automatically go to the feed portion of Snapchat after I've been texting my friends. That's the only reason I have the app because I don't really like the feed portion that much. Although I wouldn't say I check it too often, even though I really do check it very often, pretty much every time I text a friend, which is probably an average of 10 times a day that I'm looking at this. And I don't feel like I check it too much. But I don't, when I am looking at the feed, I don't really feel great. I don't like the way the videos are formatted. And the only reason I'm looking at most people's stories is just to get the satisfaction of having the stories opened. | So this is from the second time I went into Snapchat from the previous video. As you can see, my feed is almost exactly the same. These, the topics of the specific videos change weekly usually. So if I check next weeks, these topics are going to be different. But the creators are usually going to stay the same and this is almost the exact same feed I had the last time I opened the app. So it does stay very similar from day to day. But it's going to switch it up on a more weekly basis. And for me, that's often enough to where I don't get too bored, more bored than I already am with this Snapchat feed. But it's, yeah. | When I open my Snapchat feed, the first three items I see, the first one I see is my friends' stories, the second one I see is my subscriptions, and the third is the discover page with all the random content creators and their stories. It doesn't take me long usually to find something I'm interested in if I'm going to find something, if I'm looking to actually be entertained on Snapchat for a little while. So yeah, usually, I don't end up scrolling down very far at all before I end up opening some story. If I don't open my subscriptions or if I'm done opening my friends' stories, I always look at my friends' stories first, and then I'll go down and see if there's anything I'm interested in in the rest of the feed. | The items of most interest to me in my Snap feed are my friend's stories. And then after that, I'll look at my subscriptions, which do have content that interest me enough to subscribe. And once I open these, I do understand their message right away. It's very straightforward. And if I decide to watch through the whole thing, I will always come out of it with a full understanding of what it was. And they're fairly short so it doesn't take me too long, whether I watch the whole thing or not, to take in the content and move on. | So this is a podcast called Pod Save America. I am subscribed to it just to try and keep up with current events in American politics. I do trust the content on here too a certain extent because it aligns with what the other things that I see on the news. And I haven't seen any false information that I've confirmed to be false on there. But I wouldn't quote it directly just because it is just a podcast. I don't hear them really citing any specific sources very often. And people can always make mistakes, but I do trust it, I do trust the information in general. And I'm interested in it because I want to be able to keep up with what's going on in just this kind of condensed format that's easy to consume. | I never save anything from my Snapchat feed. I don't know if there is a function that allows you to save it. I guess I could screen record anything I found particularly fascinating, but I don't have any content that I've seen on my Snapchat feed that I've ever saved in any way. So if there was a function, I don't think I would use it very often. My Snapchat feed is just such-- the primary means is just entertainment, and it's kind of just an automatic impulse to check it every time I've texted someone or used the app for different purposes. So for Snapchat, I don't save anything, and I don't think I would if it was a function. | Again, I don't really share a lot of content from my Snapchat feed with other people. Especially with people's stories, people who post on their stories can see if anyone screenshots it or screen records it. So unless it's like something personal with close friends, that is definitely considered weird and creepy. As far as the rest of the content, like the videos and subscriptions and things like that, I don't remember ever sharing anything off of Snapchat with other people. I hardly ever find something on any feed worthy of sharing with friends, but definitely not on my Snap feed. I just don't think about it enough. | I will usually leave my feed the moment, or even a little before, my story section looks like this. I've seen everybody's story, which sometimes doesn't even happen, and as far as my subscriptions, a lot of times I don't even look at all of my subscriptions. This week, I've watched one of them the whole way through, the Potsy of America, and I definitely usually don't spend much time looking through the rest of the feed with these random videos. I usually won't scroll past the first five rows at most. If I see something in the very top that catches my attention, I will look at that, but I definitely don't spend a lot of time scrolling through that portion of it, so yeah. I don't take a lot of interest in most of what the Snap feed has to offer. I usually leave pretty quickly. | So once I find an item of interest, I'll use a telegraph as an example, the controls are fairly intuitive for me, I think, more than they used to be. I can swipe up to read a full article based off the story. I can edit it if I want to for whatever reason. I can flag it or report it. I can subscribe or unsubscribe. Turn on the notifications up there at the top. Or I can press that blue arrow and send it to friends or other sources. So the controls are all right there in the corners, and I can always tap through and see other stories in the same content bundle. And yeah, I think I had trouble with it when I first got on Snapchat from what I remember, but now it's pretty intuitive to me. | The times when I feel like I've been interacting with my Snapchat feed too much are definitely when I've gone through all of my friends stories, including the people I don't know very well, and I just am not going to absorb that much information about all these random people, or when I'm feeling particularly unproductive and I end up watching more of the random stories from random creators than I normally do, and at that point, I usually feel like I've scrolled too much. Usually, though, I feel like I interact with it a fine amount for what I use it for, and I don't feel dissatisfied one way or another with the amount of time I spend looking through the feed. So it's just on the times when I feel like I've seen more than I need to, and I'm not used to spending very much time on my Snap feed, so when I do that can be kind of dissatisfying, but other than that, it's fine. |
Tyler M. 53 M | Modesto | California UID: 12876 Unassigned Score: 14% Magnitude: | So the MSN News is the feed that I check multiple times a day. And I do this because it pulls me out to this page after checking my Hotmail, which is my go-to, MSN Hotmail account, which is on Outlook. And so I come to this after signing out and so it's become a custom over the years, my just go-to news feed. And so, for example, I'm following closely the COVID relief bill because, like everybody, we're interested to see if we're going to get our checks or not. I wish I checked it about as much as I do because I find it very valued but I don't overdo it. | Okay, I'm on a different site now. This is the second one, Yahoo News, which I get a lot as a feed. But this repeats itself a lot. This is a good example of why I don't come here as much, to Yahoo, because of the fact that I see just the recycle things on it all the time. A lot of time I notice they update the article, but it's the same one that they rehashed from days ago. For example, this one on the new [tactual?]. So this one's from days ago, I guess yesterday morning, but yeah. So it has stopped me from visiting Yahoo as much, because they notoriously do this, where they have articles from days ago that they just recycle. And Ascend News, not so much. That's why I go to it. | So the first three things I see when coming to the MSN news feed is I see President Joe Biden with a chart where he is outlining what families and people will get from the new stimulus package. So that's something very eye-catching to me right off the bat. Secondly, I see kind of a picture of ex-President Trump kind of making a grimacing face because he's having to go through this impeachment process. So there's an article explaining that. And third, I see a picture of this woman who had Gorilla Glue in her hair, and it's kind of a trending thing. So they capture my attention right off the bat because they're very compelling and they're very current. | So if I see an item of interest, it's kind of hit or miss with 50/50 whether it's going to-- because I'll click on it, and it really depends on who has written it. Because oftentimes it's like amateur hour, I find, and I find a lot of mistakes, and I sometimes can't get the gist of what they're trying to convey. I find this most notably in Yahoo News, but usually I'll get the gist of it. Sometimes the articles are so short, you can't even hardly make sense of it. They're just like the little blurbs. So if that's the case, I'll do a Google search with keywords about the article, and try and find other news sources from other outlets to add on or delve into the story deeper, if what I'm looking at is just kind of a teaser article. | Okay. Here's a brief shot of an article that I've read by Politico - and it's on MSN News - Democratic leaders dig [on in?] minimum wage amid Senate resistance. I find that this is trustworthy news because this site, Politico, I've read a lot of their stuff before and I find that they're pretty factual reporting and, usually, there's not a lot of opinion or bias that I find in them. So they're pretty good with their facts. So that's important to me. Other sites, you find that there's a lot of emotion involved and a lot of statements made, but they're not backed by any sort of facts. So those are ones that I'll steer clear of, but I like the ones that are facts based. | Yeah, occasionally I will save something from a news feed, definitely to reference it at a later time. For example, my wife was furloughed last year so I was looking in news about unemployment and I captured some information from a news article about people who were being furloughed that could guide them in applying for unemployment and benefits and things like that, so I did save that. I don't do it often, but if I find it's going to serve a purpose in my life, I will. So how do I do that? I usually put it on my bookmarks, and I'll just save it to my bookmarks and I'll know that I can pull it up there. And it's fairly easy and I just know that's where I'll go to if I have something saved, is in that bookmarks. I won't do any other files or anything like that. | I would say, generally, it's somewhat easy to share news feeds with friends or family, but it also depends on the site I'm using, for example, if Yahoo! News or MSN News makes it easier for me. For example, they may have links to social media that you can share it on or send it on, like on Facebook. They'll have the icon for Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or whatever, and that makes it a lot easier if you can click on one of those and share it through social media. However, some sites don't have that or they're hidden more, so it makes it more difficult. So some are more user friendly that way as far as sharing those sites with friends and family by social media. The other way I'll do is I'll just copy and paste the link and just send it in a text or an email. That's a little more old school, but I'll do that as well. So it's not too difficult. | So I actually decide to leave the feed, I guess, kind of when I am feeling like there's more opinions and emotions being thrown about in an article or a series of articles that I'm reading or about a certain topic. So that's kind of the moment I'll kind of step away is when I'm not getting the facts reported or if I find that the news feed is all just related to one subject. So then I realize that - I don't know - maybe they're trying to push something if they're just focusing on one topic and one topic only instead of having a diverse, broad array of news around the world and nationally. So if I see that, I'll kind of step away and discontinue my feed. | So as far as trying to extend the controls of wanting to get more involved with an article, I find this to be a troublesome spot because oftentimes it requires having to sign up for something or sign into something. And, for example, I want to get the full news article. Well, I click and I just get part of the news article and then I have to sign up to Washington Post or something to get the whole article. And I often don't want to do that because I know I'm going to get bombarded by them and things like that. So it becomes an issue. I do know that I avoid certain articles from certain news sources because I know I'm just going to get a teaser, where I'll click on it and get a bite and then I'll have to click for more and submit my. | Well, I always feel like I've scrolled too long because I find it very almost addicting, that I look up one article that captured my interest and then there's always something else that I see that is of interest. And I think that the news feeds, like Yahoo! News and MSN, are very smart in how they do that, that they know that they can peak my interest, and it's very effective. I find I spend a lot of time going through [to?] scroll longer than I'd like. And it's often just based on curiosity and kind of boredom, but I find I often get sucked into it. And I guess what prompts me to end that is, eventually, I find that an hour has slipped by of my time and I just have to get out of there because I realize I've wasted a lot of time doing this. |
Dominic G. 27 M | Houston | Texas UID: 293076 Unassigned Score: 7% Magnitude: | This is my feed. I don't really check it very often, not as much as I usually try and prefer to stay on social media and let people who I know pick out and share stories that they find interesting. But every now and then, I'll use this is as just a quick thing I can skim. It gives a good, neutral over feel of everything that's available. So there's not really any much bias there is, especially when I open up random feeds from people I know. So it gives a good overbalance of everything that I want to do. Might want to use this a bit more. But in the end, there's only so much time in the day. | That's a really quick answer. I don't use this often enough in order to see if stories come on. But I think that it updates every few-- yeah. See? Load new content, yeah. Look at that. There, and it updates relatively quickly. So it's not really like unchanging feed. There's stuff being updated every little bit. So it's not just a stagnant feed. | Well, let's see. The first three ones are Trump impeachment second time again, New York Times, some small stories about electronics, and then some news about Disney+ gaining subscribers. I mean, they're all-- you can see that-- well, I don't know about the electronics. But [these other?] two articles from basically 30 minutes ago, so this is a-- I would say that I'm satisfied with the [relevancy?], the frequency, quickness of what is shown here. Those stories specifically aren't really interesting, though. But [I'm in that?]-- scroll down. Yeah. Bitcoin. That's probably what I'm most interested in. But other than that. | All right. So that was the first piece, interesting news. As it's shown, brie is skin that [inaudible] bank. It's not really necessary though to open up. You kind of get what's going on by the headline. You scroll down here more. These three ones, I'm not really-- don't really care for them. Stonehedge, I'm interested in that. Stonehedge, I'm interested in that. I would open that up because it doesn't really give much detail on what is this article actually about and what it's detailing. So I'd open that up in Gizmodo. Going to vote her down. Not really much more. I'd seen some electronic advertising. But it's not really making me want to buy it right now. Besides that, there's nothing really popping up interesting as of right now. | So it gives, so interesting piece, it gives [inaudible]. It gives mottos. It gives mottos. So you know that you can basically trust your research to know that they're a kind of like a first-party site you can go to and that you expect the news from there to happen first. [inaudible] and that most of their articles that I'm aware of are pretty good. I would say that they're overall trustworthy and that there's not much that you have to worry about with them. There's far worse sites that you can try to get your science news from. So, as far as I'm concerned, Gizmo is a fine source in order to use. | Am I saving news? Not really, not from this one. There's not much. While this is a good feed that I use it, typically, I'm usually more of a focusing on specific sites. So I don't really have to pay attention to this. Well, not that I don't have to pay attention, but I don't pay much attention to this. And most of these articles that pop up are mainly things that you can either headline or ignore, easily read in about, I don't know, give a few minutes. So it's not something that you really need to open up and save for later. You can easily [inaudible]. If you have time looking for this to begin with, then you have time to probably read it to begin with, anyway. So not really much to be saved there. | It's quite easy, really. I know there are some feeds that will add these little trackers on the end of the links that they add. So that it's not really, how would you say? Adviseable or preferred that you share these links with your friends [inaudible] or family because then that just gives the advertisers a bit more, how would say? A little bit more networking between those that click on the thing and between just checking the IPs and such. So and with this feed that I've shown you before that it just links to the articles directly with none of the little specific ad trackers or whatnot on them. So it's really, it's probably, it's the best you can get for simple links to share with your friends or family. | This is kind of like a little filtered question. I mean, do you have time when I would feel maybe if I would stop scrolling is when I just start getting bored with it at the very, or when I feel that I've gone back far enough. There's always a bunch of stories in a day. So once you feel that you've learned about the, well, or at least seen the important once, you don't really need to see what some of these are. Like here, for instance, pop plans are getting questioned, Disney Plus getting more subscribers, yeah, that's not really, that's not really important news that you really need to care for. So at the end of the day, it just depends on when you get bored of it. | I think that needs to be mentioned that quite a few of the new sites nowadays have these little shenanigans involved that they don't have any comment sections or if they do, their comment section is curated. So there's no really discussing the article itself on the website anymore. So I feel like so instead that I mainly share the article across social media, specifically in groups and stuff that I'm part of in. And I usually just talk over there because I know that there, that people actually take in and actually discuss the article somewhat seriously. But, yeah, I don't really-- the sites themselves for discussions, yeah, that's not really a thing that's done that much anymore. | You saw that I scrolled through enough of it that I feel that from what I've seen, what I've gone through articles up to almost an hour ago, yeah, in realistic terms, that's probably not enough of scrolling or to see all the stories. But then again, a lot of the stories that are being shown on here right now aren't really things that I care for or I don't really-- that's not really important. So if you've had tone-- if these were toned down a bit, they probably would have gone a lot longer considering a lot of these are just about celebrities and stuff from what I'm seeing. So it's not really important. And as far as I can go back to, yeah, it works fine. Nothing really, nothing negative note. |
Chris S. 37 M | Wisconsin | — UID: 270266 Unassigned Score: 3% Magnitude: | The last feed that I looked at was Facebook's newsfeed right here. And I check it once or twice a day, probably usually only once. Today, I did check it twice. And I guess that's about enough for me. Usually, by the second time, if I go through it the second time, it's a lot of the same content, so it's not as interesting as it is the first time. So yeah, I feel like once a day is fine. | Since I usually look about once a day at each feed, like if it's Facebook, for example, which is the one I just showed, that's usually once a day, and so it's typically new content. If I look at it again later that same day, then sometimes it is, it's repetitive. For example, I just opened it now and I see an article about Covid vaccines that I saw earlier in the day, so that is repetitive, so if I do feel like going and checking the news another time, I'll usually try to go to a different source, like Google if I was on Facebook the first time, or vice versa, because I get sort of bored and irritated if I see the same articles more than once. | The first three articles I see this time are; one about the Trump impeachment trial, second one about an actress being removed from a show, and the third is about a new electric vehicle. So I would say two of the three are interesting to me. I didn't click on any of them. But the third one, about the EV company, that one, actually, I probably would click on because it's about both the car brand which I'm interested in and then also the fact that they might be having an IPO, which I'm also interested in. So yeah, that I would investigate further. | Usually, the headlines are pretty straightforward enough for me to tell whether or not I'm interested with just one kind of quick skim, or the thumbnail picture, that's helpful too. Sometimes if they have a poorly written or vague headline, then I have to kind of read it again and trying to figure out if it's something that interests me. But usually, I just, in the time it takes to scroll from the bottom of my screen to the top, I can decide whether or not it's something that I want to read more about. | So looking at the first item that interested me that I came across, it was about-- the source is Investors Business Daily, which I guess I don't know much about. It looks trustworthy, but I don't know. I'd have to read the whole article and kind of see if I could detect any bias or whatever in their writing, but at face value, it looks like it is worthwhile information. The writing has links and sources and stuff like that, so it does look trustworthy. | Yeah, I do save articles and things that I find for me to look at later. I'll save them either if I want to read them but don't have time at the moment. Usually, that's not the case. Usually, I'll save it if it's something that I feel like I might want to reference later or share with somebody else later. And it's pretty easy to find what I've saved because if I'm using the Facebook feed, which is what I'm using right now, their news feed or not news feed but whatever their news scroll thing is, I can just save it and then I go to my saved items and it's there with other things I've saved, so pretty easy. | If it is on Facebook and those are the articles that I've saved to share then it's really easy because I just share right through-- I usually don't post to anybody's profile or anything but I'll send it in a message using Facebook messenger and that's super easy because I can just hit the little share icon and that comes up right away as an option. Sometimes I'll also use just copy the link and send that through a text message or if it's somebody older that maybe doesn't use those forms very often I'll copy the link and then put it in an email. | I will usually leave the feed-- most often, I'll scroll all the way to the end of what it gives me, but I usually don't if there's-- I think there's a button on the bottom to click for more content or more stories or something like that. I usually don't click that unless I'm really bored. So usually I can make it all the way through because I kind of do it at the end of the day when I don't have much else going on. Otherwise, if I'm not really seeing anything interesting, sometimes I'll pull the plug early and just go look through something else or go to Reddit maybe or something else where I can tailor what I'm seeing to something that I'm interested in at that time. | It's usually pretty easy once again if I'm using Facebook like I've been talking about because sharing and commenting is all kind of built right into it. Sometimes if you hit a source that has a paywall or something like that reading the full article can be difficult because I don't subscribe to a lot of those different sources so that can be frustrating if I see articles that I would then need to pay for. So I read maybe the first few sentences and I'm interested but then can't read the rest of it that's a bit frustrating. I rarely comment unless I see it in my news feed rather than this feed, in my regular Facebook feed, then I'll maybe comment on somebody else's post. But otherwise, I don't typically comment in the news stories themselves. | Usually, I make it to the end of the maybe 20 or so articles that it shows me, and then I move on to something else. But if I have been scrolling for a while and haven't seen anything that has interested me yet, like anything I wanted to click on and read the full article, then it can get sort of bored or whatever, and then I just move on to something else. So I think more often than not, I feel like I've scrolled too long without seeing something interesting more often than interesting things coming up too fast, because that's typically what I'm there for is for something of interest to make me want to read further. |
Robin M. 74 F | Agoura Hills | California UID: 3319 Unassigned Score: 1% Magnitude: | Okay. So I don't know if you could see this feed. It's actually to my Facebook page, and it just says my news feed and how different people are reacting, and what they're posting as well. So let's see. I check this feed every two hours or something like that, and I kind of wish I checked it less, but I just want to know what's going on with my friends and my family. And I would like to check a little less often, but-- there's the page again, if you could see it [laughter]. It's hard to do this. So that's what I look at, and I find it very interesting. | Okay, so on this page-- let's see. Here we go. There we go. Okay. I got it. So those are the notifications on my Facebook. All the latest postings, so maybe someone has replied to something I posted, or I'm involved in their postings and their news feed. So let's see. So I always check it every so often, and it's usually new, because the ones in a light blue instead of white shows the ones I haven't looked at yet, and this makes my experience better because at least I know these are all current and ones I haven't looked at yet. | Okay. The first three items of content I see in my visit over here is my friend Mona. She's going through a cancer diagnosis right now and she's missing a friend of hers that passed away of cancer recently. The second item I just scrolled down to look at is a former classmate named Bob, and he's showing something he made from woodshop. There we go. My friend Mona is over here, showing her best friend that passed away. And then the third item I have to kind of scroll through is a friend named Sharon, who is talking about the vaccine. Let's see. Can you see that, right there, that? Okay. And she was lucky enough to get the vaccine doses through her county system. So it does meet my goal. I just kind of have to scroll through and see what people are saying and. | Okay. So these are my notifications, if you could see it. And if I just happen to glance at one that I'm interested in, all these different people remarked about an old ice cream place that I posted on in the 1960s called Will Rice. So I might want to look at and see what everyone else is saying about it because I'm the one that posted it, or I reposted from somebody else. So, I mean, I just have to scroll through and see how interested I am in reading about it. Doesn't take a lot of time. It's pretty easy to go through my notifications. And this one was kind of near the top. There you go. And so that's how it kind of works. And the notifications are over here. I just look at it and see if I want to read it. | Okay. So I saw an item of interest in my feed that is called Goli. And you could see it there. And I don't order the Ashwagandha Gummies. I order the Goli Gummies. But this is sponsored by Goli, and I know that it's reliable because I've ordered from them before. It's not political content, so I know I can trust it. And it's, like I said, from Goli. And I've used it. I've ordered from them before, so I know I can trust it. | Okay. So I do save things from my feed to look at later, and the last thing I remember saving was this video on Elvis Presley. Here we go. And I'm actually in it. This is from the Elvis '68 special, and here's the video. Don't know if you can see this, but I'm in it. And I'm just in the front, right here. Well, you kind of have to look through it, but I'm in the audience. And it was easy to save it. I just clicked in, I think, the right side to save it. And so it's in my saved items. I go into my saved items right over there where the line is, and then I can find what I'm looking for, and I know it's there. | Okay, so it's pretty easy if I want to share something. Here's something in my feed about Pacific Ocean Park, which is an old amusement park. There we go. And I would just hit share, over here, and if I want to share it, I would share it to write a post at the top, write the post. See, I'm not going to actually post it, but it says post. If I want to share it with my friends, I just hit post in the upper right-hand corner where it says post. If I want to change the privacy, then I would probably have to change special friends who are going to see it. This kind of goes to the public though. I don't mind if the public sees this, and I'll post it. I just hit post, and it shares and it's very easy to do. | Okay. So the moment I decide to leave my feed is when I've gone through all my notifications, I don't see anything interesting anymore, and I've looked at my news feed and that doesn't interest me. And the notifications I've gone through and I've read what people have posted, which kind of keeps me up to date on everything. And I'm just kind of done for the moment. I may not look for another hour or two or couple hours, but I've kind of looked at everything that interests me at the moment or that I'm going to post about. | Okay. So here's, "Trump impeachment trial live updates: House managers preview Trump defense." If I wanted to read more of that, I would click on the article, click on the information. It gives me more about the article that's going on. And let's see. I could send it [as a messenger?] down here. That doesn't really give me any information. I could share it by clicking over there with the little arrow, and then that says, "Share in new post." So I could share that and then comment in the share. I could do it that way if I wanted to. | Okay, so when I feel like I've seen enough, I've gone through enough articles, I don't see anything new, there's no new content to look at, then I'll probably leave. How do I feel if I scroll too long or not enough? Just a few minutes will get me through it, unless there's a lot of new information about the Trump impeachment trial that I want to read, which usually comes about the end of the day. Political content, I'll want to kind of look at it more in detail. And how do I feel about my ability to stop my feed visit? I feel like it's okay. I feel comfortable with it. And return to what I was originally doing? I could just put it down. It's not like it was six months ago, when Trump was doing things that were so awful, I had to check every minute to see what he was doing to the country, especially when there was the riot at the Capitol. But lately it's been kind of quiet, and the only thing to keep abreast of is the Trump impeachment trial that's going on. |
April C. 49 F | Sodus | New York UID: 288278 Unassigned Score: 15% Magnitude: | The last feed that I interacted with was Facebook. So here it is, my Facebook page. I check it every day multiple times a day. And I think that right now I check it a lot less than I was checking it. I've scaled myself back a little bit, but I still check it frequently. I like to stay in contact with friends and family and see what's going on, see what's happening locally, and it just helps me pass the time. And since I'm not working, I have more free time than usual. So Facebook happens to help me interact and feel connected to other people even when I am at home staying to myself and socially distancing. | When I first look at my feed, the content is always new. It starts with something different. So I'm going to reopen it and we'll see what it comes up with. We'll see that the picture is of a plant. Now if I close it and I reopen that feed, it is still a plant, but it's a different plant. Clearly I do a lot of gardening, so that pops up frequently, but it's always different content, which I like at times because I see a lot of different things, but it's very hard sometimes to go back and find what I originally saw. | So the first three items that I see, one is a plant, other is friend requests, and the we have a meme of something that is funny, which I always enjoy those, and it tells us people you may know. And here's another plant post, and I often stop and look at those, because they give me information I need. As you can see in the backgrounds, I myself like plants. I'm a gardener, and so I would have stopped to look at the individual pictures and perhaps post about this. So it doesn't usually take me very long because I frequently visit and it knows what I like to see, so the things that I like are generally right there at the top of the page, and everything is pretty pertinent to me for the most part, other than all the friend recommendations, which I could care less about. | So, when I see things that interest me, usually it's pretty clear and simple, because my groups and what comes up on my feed are interesting to me. And they're things that I frequently look at. So usually it's pretty simple. And sometimes there are tips and tricks that I really need to stop and read and I utilize. So sometimes I take a little longer depending on what the information is and how interested I may be in the information. There are times when things can be a bit confusing, but for the most part, the information that I'm looking at or reading is pretty straight forward and cut and dry. So I try not to dwell on any one thing too much, because I like to take in a lot of information, so. | Okay, so I'm just going to randomly pick something, and of course it's plant-related again. And it's out of a group, the Houseplant Hobbyist, and that's the source. It's just one of my groups, a houseplanting group, just someone that gardens in their own house or is a hobbyist like myself. And I trust the information because in this group, we're here to help each other. So we frequently provide tips, such as this is a peace lily growing in water in a vase, instead of growing in a pot with garden soil. And some people may not have known you could do this before seeing the group. And what happens is one person starts the thread, and we all add to it. So there's many different options and opinions, and you really get a whole wealth of information and knowledge all in one place. And most people have. | Okay, so I rarely save things from my feed to look at later. Usually, if I'm interested in something, I will just like it, that way I can go back in my history. However, I have saved some things in my feeds usually when it's very close at heart from a family member or something that I might not be able to ever see again. So it's very easy. There's just a button to click with the option to save to your own page. And then you can go into your own profile and you can look at what you have saved there for future reference. So it's very easy. Yes, I have done it. I do not do it frequently. Again, most of the time I just like something, or I'll follow something to be able to see it in the future. So yes, very. | So it is super easy to share items from my feed to other people that I want to share it with. There's just a share button and when you hit the share button, you have options to choose who you want to share the information with and what you want to do with it. So like right here you can see the share button. Whoops, sorry. You can see the share button, and you would just select that and it gives you options of to share on your own page, to share with specific people, to share publicly, or to keep it private. So you have a lot of options, but it's extremely simple to share things from my feed with other people, for other people. So super easy. | So when viewing my feed, sometimes, I just abort and decide I don't want to look at it anymore, or once in a while, I'll see something that I don't like or don't agree with. Usually, I don't tend to comment or get involved with political or anything that's argumentative, but sometimes, I will decide that I no longer want to look at a screen anymore, so I just decide that I need to walk away. So generally, it's just because I'm done or I'm bored or, like I said, something has just not been very good, so I've decided, "Okay. I need to do something different." So I just change what I'm doing and shut it down and go on to something different. | Well, when I see something interesting on a feed, and I want to investigate it further, usually I will just click on the photo or the feed itself, and it will bring up a full page or enlarge the photo or take you to a link that's attached. It's super easy. There is an answer button here, so you can find answers. I showed you the share button previously. You can comment. You can like. There's a lot of different ways you can interact. I'm just trying to see if I can find anything that has a clickable link. Currently, I just see a lot of plants and flowers, but it's extremely easy in any event to just tap on it and click on it and bring the picture up. If there was a link, you could click on the link. Just super easy. | Well, when I've finally decided that I've had enough or want to do something else, it's pretty easy. I just kind of set it aside and know that it's there if I want to return to it. It can be rather addicting depending on what I'm doing. I can get rather involved into things, but I tend to sit for only so long and then I need to change what I'm doing. So at that point, I'll shut it down and walk away. And then, who knows? I might come back in a half hour. I might come back in a day. It just depends on what I'm doing, how much time I have, and if there's something that I'm interested in or looking for, maybe information or just needing to kill the time. So it's pretty easy to stop and return to what I'm doing, most times. |
Anatasha F. 36 F | Miami | Florida UID: 102982 Unassigned Score: 12% Magnitude: | The most recent feed of news that I have checked is the Yahoo news app. Even through the laptop I do receive many notifications through my phone which I find extremely helpful. I check this app I want to say multiple times a day, way more than 10 times a day. And I feel I receive a moderate amount of notifications. And I'm checking it on a regular basis. It doesn't feel too much or too little. I'm very comfortable and happy with the amount of time that I use checking this app. I receive notifications for traffic, the political situations going on now with the second impeachment of Trump. I'm constantly getting updates when it's live, what's new, what's going on-- when it comes to traffic too. So for me it's helpful to check it multiple times a day so that way I can stay up to date of what's going on throughout the day. Thank you. | When I first open up the Yahoo News app, the feed is constant new information. For example, I could show you here where it says Live Updates. Right here, that's where I'm able to find live information going on. Also, as you look a little bit further down here, I'm able to scroll to see what other news is going on. Usually that's nationwide or statewide or local, literally, in Miami, my area. I find that this impacts my experience greatly because I need updated information. I don't want to see the same played out or repetitive news updates, because to me, that's technically not an update. I like to see the current information as it happens. And again, as soon as I open up the feed, I do have that option. I just need to scroll down, or I could press the button that shows live updates. | The first three items of the feed that I see is the second impeachment of Trump, which is in a big picture, and then below that is a deadly Texas crash, and the third one is a medical official who got fired for using vaccines when he was told to do so. I feel like this meets my goals moderately when it comes to what I want in my feed because, first, I do look for anything dealing with politics, and again, the second impeachment of Trump has been going on this week, so I have been focused on it. I have it on the TV. I've been watching everything live. But when it comes to the Texas crash, I don't live in Texas, but I do feel bad about what happened. And then, third, I'm a little bit interested with the whole COVID situation and the vaccines, and I'm curious to know why this official was fired for using the vaccines. So I feel like I barely need to scroll before finding something interesting because it's literally right here on the front, right when I log in. | I see that it's very easy for me to grasp the message of the content and move on, because the title, the little snippet, will usually explain what it's about. And the article description is very clear also. So that way it gives me that clear and easy message to understand. So, for example, I feel like it is super easy when I find content that I want to explore further, and I'm able to just click on the picture here or click on the title, and I'm able to read what it's about. I can see quotes or comments. I can see a detailed explanation of the article. It's very clear. I find it simple, and sometimes all I need to do is just skim through it, and I'm able to get the main message that was being portrayed. | So I clicked on the content that grabbed my attention the most, which is the second impeachment of Trump and the live updates. And as you see here, you could see the source that I believe is trusted as Dylan Stableford, mainly because I see him constantly showing updates of other political information. During the whole presidency, he was posting articles about Biden and Kamala Harris. I follow the Democrat party. So for me, I feel like this is a trusted source, because when I checked his-- doing a source fact-checker, I was able to see that the information that he was saying was extremely relevant. Even on CNN, NPR, things that he was relating in his article was related by other sources also. So that's what helps me trust the source, when I do the fact-checker and see that the information is correct. | As you see on the page here, what I'm pointing to, the little F for Facebook, the little bird for Twitter, or email, that is the option to share. I do not see here, for the website, the option to save articles. I don't even remember saving articles, honestly, through my phone, through the app. What I do is either take a screenshot or I'll share or post the link and share it with others on social media. Sometimes, if I'm using the Yahoo website like this, I could copy the link of the article and share it that way, and I can also save it to my home page on my smartphone that way. But when it comes to other sources like MarketWatch or Google News too, it's kind of the same thing. It's more like sharing through social media and posting. You're able to post it and I'm able to save it that way and pull it up on my social media account. | I feel as if it's extremely easy to share content from Yahoo News. Again, by pointing to here, the F for Facebook, the bird for Twitter, or the little envelope for sending it through email, any option through email. It is super easy to share the content with people who I think will find this interesting. For example, the second impeachment of Trump, I've already sent a couple articles from yesterday to my mom, my best cousins, some co-workers who are interested too in this type of content. So I find it extremely easy. Also I'm able to post it right away to my account to either Facebook, Twitter, as you saw. I constantly use Facebook too. I'm always checking those notifications and updates. So I like being able to post and have my account connected, all my accounts connected, through my favorite news apps and just posting rapidly all the new and updated information that I find. | So here I'm able to just scroll down and see the rest of the feed, what's going on. For me, when it comes to what would make me want to leave this content and find something else is seeing that I've already got my refresher or I've already seen this content maybe a couple days ago or a week ago. To me, it seems kind of irrelevant to keep looking at the same information. So that would make me want to exit out or press the back arrow or find something else at the bottom of the article or scroll right or scroll left to see what else is available. I feel like once I got my feel, mainly getting the main points of the article, I try not to overload myself with too much information that's irrelevant to me. So that's what helps me or what pushes my mind to think, "Okay, time to exit out and go find something else that'll grab your attention." | As I'm looking at the article that is of interest of me and I feel like I want to share and explore more, this side of the screen right here, you can see the F for the Facebook button, the bird for the Twitter, and the mail sign for email. That, to me, is the easiest and fastest way to share or post this interesting content that I'm just dying to share. I feel like it's simple, easy. It's literally so conveniently located right next to the article. As I continue to scroll up or down, that option is still available. So it's not like I have to go back to the top or find it again. No, it's right there conveniently moving with me as I move with the content. So, to me, that is the fullest extent. That is super easy to do and convenient. | Once I feel content with the information that I've received from the article, I do feel sometimes, yeah, I've been scrolling for too long. I already got the information I needed or it either becomes repetitive. I feel way more than comfortable going back to what I was originally doing or starting a new task or even just looking into more feeds, more topics of news articles available. That way I feel like I am multitasking in a very productive way. I'm getting [the?] information that I like, I'm doing what I like to do, and also I am getting things done. So I do feel like once it's time to stop scrolling through that article and exiting out, I can go right back to what I'm doing comfortably and make sure that I am keeping up with the duties or my errands for that day. |
Brent C. 45 M | Memphis | Tennessee UID: 292200 Unassigned Score: 4% Magnitude: | So the feed that I use the most is obviously [on a nice Android?] phone is literally just the [inaudible] news app. I've used this app instead of regular RSS feed apps and so on and so forth pretty much for years now. Checking it, I do check it quite often. I like seeing what's going on out in the world due to the fact that I work 10, 12 hours a day and I don't see much of the outside world. So at least this way I know what's going on. I sometimes do think I need to check it less, but overall I do think I check it the right amount so that I'm being able to talk with other people about what's going on. | Most of the time when I first get into it, it is new. Like this one here is four hours ago, two hours ago, four hours ago. So most of the time it is [decently?] new. Normally I will get in the app and refresh it the second that I'm in there just to make sure everything's up and running. Because checking it as often as I do sometimes things don't get updated. I don't think this necessarily affects the impact of me using this specific feed to see information because I'm so used to just swiping it down and getting it set up to refresh itself just literally the second I get into the app. | Well, normally, the first couple things that are in there are things going on with politics because I like to be up to date on what's going on in the country. Most of the time, the local news channel here is in the first three articles or so. So it's definitely the stuff that I'm looking for. As far as scrolling to find what I'm looking for, I scroll it top to bottom. I will scroll through every single article in the feed until I find one that catches my eye. Because sometimes it might be the first one. Sometimes it might be the 50th article, down the very bottom of it. And you can miss out on stuff that might be beneficial to you by not going down the whole thing. | I'm always scrolling down once I see something that catches my eye. Generically speaking, you can get a grasp for what it's going to be about off the little description, the title that they give. The photo sometimes will give it away. But sometimes it might catch your eye and you want to know more. And it's easy. Just any touch phone. You literally touch it and it takes you right to the news article in question. So being able to get further into that article and further into the information that I want to look at is really simple. | Looking at an item in my feed - I was looking at my feed. I don't know if you can see my feed - is Fox 13 Memphis, one of the local news channels. We are currently in an ice storm, as of today. So it's decent information. Most news channels you can trust for the most part when they're local. I don't trust many national news articles, news feed, news information, just for the fact that it doesn't necessarily pertain to me overall. It might generically pertain to me, but overall, I'm looking for the stuff that more catches my eye on my interests, and stuff that's local to me because that pertains to me and where I'm at. | I sometimes do. Saving things from my feed, I will save every once in a while. But normally, I save them until I can get to a computer. That way, I can save it on my computer. It's a little bit easier to access in full size. The one that I do keep saved - it's just in the little following tab and you scroll down and it's saved stories - is one about doing a body workout with zero equipment. Just because that way, I have quick information. If I want to do some exercise when I'm not at my house, I have something that can give me that information. And it's decently easy to get to. Once you learn an app and once you get used to working through the feed, it normally is pretty easy. | To be honest, I don't think I've ever actually shared anything [on my newsfeed?], but let's [give it a?] shot. I'm assuming I can just hit the little three dots. And yeah, it just gives me the share option. So I mean, it'd be simple to share. I don't normally save things to my feed that I'm going to share to people. I normally share it immediately. So I guess if you want to look at it as the feed in general, it would be the same way. I can literally just hit a button and share it. I don't do that very often just because sometimes what you think might be interesting, might not be interesting to them. | [inaudible] for the most part, if I'm going to leave it, I've either gotten to the bottom and there's just nothing that caught my eye or I just got tired of scrolling. I mean, sometimes if there's been no new updates to it, nothing's changed in the feed, you'll make it through like the first 20 or 30 and be like, "Eh, this is all the same." And I'm looking at it to keep up to date, but I don't want to look at it to waste my time. And it can easily waste your time constantly scrolling through. I mean, besides that, leaving it is catching phone calls, needing to just do something else. [I'll?] realize, "Hey, I forgot to do this, so let's go do it real quick." But for the most part, the feed makes you leave just because there's nothing else to look at. | Once I find something in there, like I said in one of the previous answers, it's decently easy to view. You literally click the photo, click the working on it, and it will take you directly to the source of that that you're seeing inside the Google news feed. The thing I don't like about it though is there are some times that it's supplies links to paid websites that require you to be a member or have a subscription with them, or use their internet service, or something that keeps you from seeing the whole article. And that's kind of not the best thing. I wish there was a way to turn a setting on to keep you from going to that type of website. But overall, it's really simple to get to the rest of the information. | Normally, I've hit my fill on looking at this feed, looking at the news and so on and so forth, when, like I said, I get to the point, everything looks the same, like nothing's changed. Normally, when I first wake up in the morning, I will scroll top to bottom. I will look at a lot of it just to get the day going. But throughout the day, me viewing that feed gets less and less because it's just not getting updated. I mean, there's only so much news that can be relayed and only so many different ways they can relay it, to where sooner or later it'll make you stop going and go back to doing what you were doing in the first place. So yeah. |
Aleja G. 28 F | Bloomington | Indiana UID: 292109 Unassigned Score: 5% Magnitude: | The last thing that I checked was Instagram. [inaudible] there. I think I check Instagram more than I should. I spend a lot of time on Instagram when I should be doing other things, so I definitely think I overuse the app. But it's a great way to communicate with people, people from younger days I guess. | Whether the content is new or old, I think it has a depending factor is you left the app open with your previous visit. Sometimes you might open up the app, and the information from the past visit is still there. So sometimes all you have to do is tap the top of the screen to refresh it, and it just sends you a new [feed?]. It doesn't have any impact on my visit with the app. It's just simply something that happens sometimes. | The first three pieces of content, how well do they meet my goal [for?] coming to the app? The reason I come for app is just for information. Sometimes it'd be big stories that you see on the news. But my goals for coming to the app is really just for entertainment. It's not to be informed by anything. It's just really for entertainment and to pass the time. I can scroll a little down and instantly find content that I find interesting enough for me to stop and pay attention to, so it's not too hard with that. | So once I see an item that grabs my attention, depending on what type of content that is, I might have to rewatch it a few times to actually maybe get the joke. Or sometimes I just want to read it again to maybe fully understand what the message is saying. But, I mean, that doesn't happen too often. You can just really read it and that's a beautiful statement. Or you can see something funny and oh, you want to see it multiple times and watch it multiple times. But diving deeper into something that interests me, it seems very easy to do so. You might have a YouTube page, or they might have a Instagram account that you can go further in, dive in. If you want to know more detail about that content or see more content from that person, it's very easy. | All right. So the item that I'm looking at, content is now this news. Relatively, they have great content. Very informative or maybe just praising someone for a good deed. I completely trust their content. It's very fast, very efficient, and very accurate. So that's the reason why I trust them. I trust them. | Yes. I do find things worth saving. I kind of really don't remember. But if I were to guess what I saved, it was probably something beneficial. Maybe I thought it could even help maybe financially or something like that. But really, I could go back and look at what I saved. I might save it and just never go back to it, so. It's very easy with Instagram to find what you saved. You just go to your profile and click a link to whatever you saved. | All right, so this is the downside to Instagram. I'm not able to send messages via text. With Instagram, I have to send it to whoever is my friend on Instagram. So that's kind of the downside. I wish Instagram would be able for me to send it through text message without me having to screenshot my feed and send it that way. So, I mean, there are ways, but I would rather just be able to tap a button and send it via text message without having to screenshot it which just makes it a little bit easier. But it is difficult to send content when they're not your friend on Instagram. | So when viewing something in my feed that interests me and why I decide to leave, typically it's probably when the video is over. Or it might be a case where that particular content might not interest me at the moment, so it's pretty simple. It's usually the video's over or I'm done reading the content or I'm done fully absorbing the content and I'm ready to move on to the next. | So the piece of content that interests me is again [now this is news?] [inaudible] content is open up their Instagram page and view [their?] stories that interest me. They have a lot of interesting stories. And they also have a YouTube channel and I'm a avid YouTube user. So I love to view content on multiple platforms and it kind of opens up a little bit more range. Which Instagram, you're not able to maybe see the full video. They kind of just show some older clips, but in YouTube, you can [probably?] see the whole video. It's easier to get that content. | I think with social media there's just never-ending. I think that's the beauty and the curse of it. It's just never-ending. Your feed never stops. it might slow down but it never stops, so. The need, that's enough for today. I'm probably just hopping on to another app, sadly, either Snap Chat or YouTube or the things I toggle from Instagram. So I think it's very difficult to stop the scroll because it's almost like the fear of missing out. Just keep on scrolling. You just get more content [feeded?] into you. So yes, it might be an addiction. it's very difficult to stop. But sometimes it gets boring so it just depends. I don't know. |
Wyman C. 55 M | Connecticut | — UID: 293744 Unassigned Score: 13% Magnitude: | This is the last feed that I access, which was Twitter. I probably access it too much and have it up too much, just because I do rely on it for kind of more breaking news than anything else, but I find that the people that I follow tend to tweet out some quick-hitting information, rather it's regards to the markets or just some news events, as well, so is what I'm looking at most of the day. | When I click on the feed, I have it set to more relevant content so it's not actually the newest. But if I do hit the home button or swipe down, I will get fresh tweets. I like it set up this way rather than getting the most recent because I tend to have it set up so I kind of get what's most penitent to me as opposed to what is current. | Oh, so I forgot to hit record. So the first thing on my feed is-- let me scroll back up. Oh, we go all the way back up. First thing on my feed is I typically have it set to what's pertinent as opposed to what's current. So the first one is someone that I follow who just does the news. The next one looks like it's a promotion. Third one is Hedge I, which is research firm that I follow and tend to like to read all of their updates as they come out on Twitter. And then the third person, and again is someone in finance that I do follow. So mostly, everything that comes up on my feed is something that I'm looking for. | So items of interest are pretty easy for me to find, and I do understand just being able to click on the story, or any link, or a news story just to be able to learn about something that might interest me further as long as it's provided within the story. So nothing very difficult for me to figure out, and to dig deeper into is pretty self-explanatory, and it only takes a few clicks. | So here is a news item or-- and news source that I do trust and I do follow and I do read a lot, which you can see is Bloomberg. Again, it actually has a little bit of everything that I do enjoy like finance, stories about cryptocurrency. But I know that the story is going to be accurate and have-- be truthful and I guess not fake news just because Bloomberg is one of my trusted not only news but also research and I use it for analysis as well. So it's someone that I-- it's an organization that I do trust. | I do save stories of interest. What I tend to do is bookmark them so I can find it easily. So if you see the last thing I bookmarked was something from Morning Star Research. But I don't bookmark a lot of things every day. It tends to be only once in a while. I might bookmark two things in a day, but for the most part, I bookmark something really interesting, and it's something that I want to save to read for later, go back to it, read it, and then unbookmark it. But pretty easy for me to find what I have saved. | I find sharing things from my feed easier on the mobile device than on a web page, just because on the mobile device I am able to hit the share button and send it via different mediums whether it's through text or the messenger service, whereas on the online web-based feed, internet or the browser feed, I have less options to send it. It's either via direct message where I have to copy the link to an email, so it's just a lot more difficult to share. | When viewing my feed, what would cause me to leave the content is probably more being on it too long and then knowing that I have other things that I need to get to. So if I'm scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and passing the time then all of a sudden I realize I have other things to do, what I would probably do is just close up the app or go onto do what I need to do, and bookmark quickly things that I want to save for later. | Once I find something of interest on my feed, I am able to dive deeper into whether it's the article or the person that posted it, just to get more information to really just satisfy my curiosity or search for more information on the subject. It's really just a matter of diving deeper into the feed. Hopefully, they have a link available. Hopefully, they have a hashtag or even something in their bio link where I can get further information. If not, it's just a matter of searching for that topic or article. | Yeah, typically, I feel like I've probably scrolled too long when I'm going through different feeds on Twitter but it does come to a point where either I end up reading tweets that I've read before or realize that I've been on it too long and really needed to get back to work or on with my day. So it really is a matter of self-control and self-awareness of trying to close the app and move on and save it-- save it for later when I have a little bit more free time. |
martha s. 67 F | Trenton | New Jersey UID: 7677 Unassigned Score: 9% Magnitude: | The feed that I go to the most is probably newsfeeds, more like CNN, and the last one I was on, I think, was CNN. I'll take you there now. This is my CNN newsfeed. I feel like I watch probably my news channels, probably constantly throughout the day. It's always lighting up and it tells me when something is going on, and I really feel as far as how many times I use it, probably four or five times a day, I see it and I check my news, so I think that's just about right. Sometimes I feel like I might be missing something, but I'm getting everything, so it's probably pretty good there. | Usually, I get a lot of newsfeed. Besides me going on it, I get a lot from CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, and there's a few other ones, my Mercer County area news, and different newsfeeds. So pretty much, I get the same feed from all different places, different feeds. I'm getting the same news and everything like that, but at the same time it's not-- sometimes there's something new coming up. But usually, once I get a coming up, like something just happened, I will get four or five different feeds from different areas that are always telling me the same repeated news from different places, but usually up to date. | When I go to my news feed, when I turn it on, I usually get news, mostly. I look through my sports. [That's?] my other thing that pops up pretty much because they know I'm a sports person. I love baseball and football, so I'm always checking my sports. Entertainment, I like entertainment as far as what's going on with actors and actresses and everyone all around and things like that. So probably, entertainment I see right now. I see my tech, my style. Entertainment is up, and my sports, for sure, and my news feed. Those are my main things that are up on my-- my first three are actually my news, my sports, and entertainment. | So when I see an item of interest in there, for instance, right now they're doing the Trump impeachment and certain things that come up might be like, what happened in the Capitol and what went on inside, and maybe it'll show it on my newsfeed and like a little video of it and things like that. I'm more interested in seeing the behind-the-scene things of what happened that day and things like that to get the full effect of what was going on at the time and things to read on. But besides reading, the little videos help a lot. Also, with sports I'm always, especially baseball, I love baseball so much and I love to read. I was just reading earlier also about football and about Brady going to his parade in his boat, his new $2-million boat or something, and all those little feeds that I read all the time. If it's something that I'm interested in, like I said, if it's the news or some kind of sports or things like that, those are my main things, so I'm. | I was looking at the SNY. It's Sports New York. And I was just looking before because there is a lot of new players at the New York Mets for-- the baseball team are going to be getting. I'm very interested in the New York Mets and baseball. SNY, Sports New York, is something that I trust a lot. So when I hear it from them, I feel like that's reputable. It's just like MLB and things like that. But if I hear it from other sources, I might not. But SNY is something that I really trust as far as for my sports information, for my baseball and things like that. | It all depends on what feed I go to. Some things I notice are a little bit harder for me to save. Maybe I'm not as computer-savvy as I should be. But sometimes I have difficulty. But a lot of times, I do save things to look at later or mostly to show my husband. And a lot of times what I do is I'll just take a picture of it and-- of a page if it comes up and I see it, and I will save it, and I'll show my husband later in case he didn't see the news or some [replies?] that I want to see or something. Again, if it's about my New York Mets, a sports thing, or something like that, I will save it or I'll put it in my favorites and hang onto it that way. | It's very easy to share something with someone that I want to send it to. For instance, my husband, a lot of times I will share it, or my daughter, or my son, in any case, I do hit the share button and I send it over to, usually, I send it sometimes to their email or sometimes right to their phone. I send it as a message. But it's very, very easy to just hit the share button and click on to where I'm sending to or sometimes I can post it on Facebook, too, if I feel like it's important to share that. | Usually, I would be leaving the feed if it's something that does not interest me. I might start reading it and think it's something other than what I'm reading, and then when I get to, it's not that interesting. I might just leave the feed. Or a lot of times, I get the same feed, like I said, from different sources. So maybe I already got it from one source and I already read. And it's the same thing over and over from different newsfeeds or different sports or whatever it is, but it might be repeated, and I might not need to read it again. And I just get off. | Once I find something that I'm really interested in, I kind of just continue reading and I usually read it till the end then. And I will sometimes go back and scroll back and just make sure in case I miss something, if it's something I'm really, really interested in. I will also continue to other sources looking to see if it's true that all these things are coming up about whatever it is, whether it's a player that I'm interested or whatever it is. And I also will go to Facebook and share it and ask people comment about it and things like that, and what they feel, and ask questions to them so that it's not just my opinion if I'm-- and want to make sure that everything is true. | I think, when I get to the end and I'm satisfied with what I read-- I guess I wouldn't say it's not enough. I would say it's more like I'm done. So probably, I scroll to the end, so it's long enough to where I probably don't stop if I'm interested in something until I get to the end of-- if it's something that interests me, I will wait and get to the end. So probably, I do it longer than it should, but I wait till the end to read everything if I'm really interested in that certain feed and if it satisfies me. And then, I go back to whatever I'm doing, and I have no problem to maybe go back to it later. But most of the times, I am satisfied when I'm done, and that's it. I don't usually go back to it. |
Abby M. 27 F | Portland | Oregon UID: 284524 Unassigned Score: 11% Magnitude: | So the last feed that I interacted with would definitely be TikTok. I scroll TikTok all throughout the day, honestly, and I-- I can open it here. So yeah. We get an ad when we first open it up. And it will go away. I have a dog greeting me [laughter] as my first-served video. It's adorable. And then I will scroll both my For You page so sort of the explore feed that I get random videos on, and then my following page so users that I followed. I think about checking this feed not constantly, but if I have a free moment in my day, I'm definitely going to think about hopping on and checking it, and I probably will. Probably don't want to check it much more than I do right now because it is pretty often. Whenever I get the chance, I really do do it. So yeah. I'm definitely a fan of it. Definitely check it as often as. | So except for that ad that I am first served when I open it up-- this is the same version of the ad that I received when I opened it up just a second ago for the last prompt. But except for that, the really, really nice thing about TikTok is it is always brand new content. So I have never seen the video before. It might be from a user that I've watched a video from before, which is actually kind of nice. But each time I scroll it's going to be a totally different video from a totally different user with pretty wildly different categories of content. So that's the really biggest pro I would say about using a feed like TikTok for news or for comedy or for just purely entertainment. It's always new. And it's always going to be different no matter how many times I open it. | So the first three videos I'm served on my feed-- I'm just looking at it now. This first one is a video about black-owned food products at Target, which honestly, is the first video I'd stop and watch. That sounds great. The second video is a video-- I'm trying to see what it says. It looks like it's about someone flying during the pandemic on a flight they're not so sure about. So definitely news related there, and I would probably watch that one as well. And then, secret into my life, but this is a Taylor Swift video talking about how she dropped news this morning on Good Morning American, and I would absolutely click into that user to see what other news they might have on Taylor Swift because I am a large fan. | That's a great question because, actually, if I use say the Taylor Swift example of a user who seems to be posting kind of a mishmash of content, it is actually kind of hard to understand what a video is about without just watching it all the way through. Sometimes people post comments below that kind of give a little bit of detail into what the video is about before you watch the full, up to 60 seconds long, video. But it is kind of frustrating because sometimes you'll get to the end of the video and it's not actually the content you were hoping for. And some people will put context around the video or kind of put a title on the video before it actually intros into the rest of the content that you're about to be watching. But if they don't, it's actually pretty frustrating when you're not able to see kind of the heads up, almost like a headline of what content you're going to be consuming. | I scrolled past it, but a video that I just scrolled past was one from The Guardian. They have a TikTok account and they post a lot of current events surrounding politics and things like that. And I trust the source because I trust their website and the content they put out, the articles they write, and things like that. And so knowing that it's coming from a trustworthy source outside of TikTok and then having them bring in the content just into another platform, I personally trust it a ton/ Of course, it can vary a little bit platform to platform as far as how much coverage you're getting and how much information in a certain video or article you might be getting. But it seems overall pretty thorough and pretty informational, and I trust the source overall so I will continue to go back to their portfolio and watch their videos for content like that. | Yes. I save content all the time because TikTok especially is full of really helpful tips and tricks, and I follow a lot of TikTok accounts for investing and tips on investing and who to invest in this week, whatever it might be. And I may not be able to do whatever the TikTok is saying at the moment, so I'll save it to my camera roll. Not all TikToks are savable though, so a lot of times, I'll just save it to my favorites video in my TikTok app. And it is actually a little bit difficult to find them again, so that's a great question because it is really hard to find the stuff that I saved. Especially if it's just that I liked it and favorited it, because I do that for a lot of videos, and especially when they don't have headings or any sort of [title side?] before the content of the video begins. It's really tough to find exactly the video I'm looking for. | TikTok makes it very, very easy to share content. I think they know what they're doing [laughter] because it's really easy to-- a Facebook or an Instagram kind of makes it a little bit difficult. If you were to share a link within Instagram, let's say, you typically need to log in before you can actually open up the post. But TikTok makes it really easy to send someone a funny video or whatever it might be. And so I could text someone a link or I could share them, of course, within the app. But I often don't follow people on TikTok that I know personally. And so I'll just share with them a link from TikTok of a funny video that I want them to watch. And they're able to watch it really easily just by clicking on the video. It opens up in a web browser, and they can watch it no problem. And then I think they know what they're doing because it makes it pretty fun and pretty easy to access content without having an account. And then you later subscribe. | Honestly, what gets me to leave any particular moment of scrolling throughout my feed is really just time constraint. I could probably spend a good amount of time on TikTok without getting bored or without needing to leave. It's just constantly refreshing with new content, and it's almost always really enjoyable. So for the most part, it's I've realized I've been on TikTok for 20 minutes straight, and I should probably do something else, or it's my lunch break is up, whatever it might be. Because it really is almost always entertaining. And there always is new content to consume. And it's almost always pretty good content. So honestly, I usually leave just because of a time constraint. | So for TikTok, it's not, of course, articles. It's more videos. But if I were to continue with the example of The Guardian video that I came across that was politics-centered, they make it really easy. It depends on the user, of course. But a lot of users will use something called a link tree. So it's kind of link-in bios sort of thing. You can click to their profile and access their full article that the video is based on. You can access their full website from there. You can comment from within the TikTok app of course, but then you can also comment on say, the article on their website without even leaving the TikTok app. You can just access the web browser version. And so they do make it very, very simple to find and use the controls as long as, of course, the user did use the link-in bio sort of method of accessing more content. But it is very simple to navigate. | So kind of playing off my answer a few questions ago, I feel like I have definitely scrolled for too long by the time I actually hop off of the app simply because I usually hop off of it because I've been on it for too long and realize I should probably do something else. So I think my ability to both stop myself and then continue doing something else definitely goes hand in hand with realizing that it has been a long time. But that also I have seen enough content and I have seen a lot of funny videos, informational videos, I've clicked through a lot of links, and read more articles more in-depth about some of the videos that I've watched. And I probably did some shopping within the app too because there are so many product promotions and things like that. So there's definitely a point where I realize I have seen enough content and I've scrolled for long enough. It's probably time to hop off. And of course, the cycle begins again a little bit later, but it's usually all about the timing. |
Aaliyah S. 31 F | Nashville | Tennessee UID: 287175 Unassigned Score: 7% Magnitude: | The last feed I interacted with was Instagram. I feel like I'm definitely on there way too much. If I could decrease the time I'm actually on Instagram, I think that would be a good goal. But it's pretty much what I look at and check way too frequently. But it's becoming a distraction, so yeah. | So when I do open the Instagram feed, normally there are older posts that show up first. And then, once I swipe down and give it time to refresh, that's when it'll show the new content. I do wish that it would automatically refresh as soon as you open that app. It saves time and then it makes me feel less like I've been logging in too much. | So normally, my feed consists of nails, like nail designs. I follow different blog sites. So that's pretty much it. And I do follow some other influencers, so if I do see something that's like, ooh, makeup, or I want to know more about what routine they're talking about, then I'll click in it so that maybe I might be scrolling under a minute before I actually click on the post and then go to the page and look at other stuff or click on the post and then just go to the next thing, so. | I think once you find something that interests you and you actually want to investigate it more, it doesn't take long to comprehend what's trying to be said. I don't really follow too many deep posts or people that are way too spiritual or too many intellectuals. More so when I go on social media, I want to see something funny or something like that or something inspirational in the sense of new ideas for clothes, makeup, hair, all that good stuff. So once you click on the post, whether it's a minute for a video or if you're just looking at some makeup details, it doesn't take long to comprehend. | So, a perfect example would be [the Shaver?]. It's more so like a blog/gossip type thing. It just take off your mind of other things that's going on in your own life and [inaudible] what's going on in the social world around us. So they post funny things like this video of a funny video. They update things about current events for the news, controversial things about different celebrities. So it's like TMZ but more centered around Black people. | So I do tend to save some posts so I can look at them later whether they're inspirational like the Cicely Tyson video, just uplifting us, or funny videos to go back and actually laugh at like this. Where the money resides. Where's my sound? Just give me your VIN and the paper because I'm in. What the what? Where the money reside. Where the money reside. Where the money reside. Where the money reside. I got Toyota for you. I know that [inaudible]-- So stuff like this that I [crosstalk]. Of course you save them, but save a lot of funny things so I can go back and look at them. Some inspirational things too. | I think it's really easy to share content with people who I feel like will enjoy it, especially funny videos. Especially on Instagram, you can DM the person, or you can share it via text message so that they can look at it. Normally, if I'm sharing something, I'm just going to DM it to their Instagram so they can save it too if they want to. But, yeah, it's pretty easy to share content. | If I'm viewing something in my feed, and I click out of it, it's normally because it wasn't interesting as the little thumbnail made it look like. This is very relevant on YouTube. The saved picture frame photo that they use to post looks more interesting, and then you start watching the video, and then it's not even what you expected it to be. So then you click out of it, and then it was like I wasted my time. So then you don't get upset about it, but you do feel like you've been wasting your time while watching it, so. | It's really easy to engage with posts that are interesting. For example, for the shade room, people are from all over. And it amazes me to this day that I can read the comments, go through them, and then have similar thinking or the same thoughts or I was going to say it but somebody already else said it. So it's easy to navigate, to comment, to share, to like. I mean, Instagram is simple. You just double-tap on the picture or video and you can like it. It's pretty seamless in that sense. | I feel like when I do scroll on Instagram or even Facebook feed, I feel like I'm more so distracted here lately. So it feels like I've been on it way too long. And whatever I was working on prior to getting on social media feeds, it's kind of hard to jump back into it and be focused. So, yeah. Way too long, because of the distraction, and what I was working on previously, it's hard to get back into it. |
Ally L. 47 F | North Carolina | — UID: 290891 Unassigned Score: 18% Magnitude: | Facebook was the last feed that I opened up. You can see it here, my Facebook feed. Just all the recent stories. I check it so many times a day. It's kind of annoying actually how often I do check it. I do wish I checked it less. I'm on my phone way too much anyway, so I feel like I could probably be on my phone less, and that would definitely, I don't know, take some screen time away. But I probably check it at least 10, 15 times a day. | Some of the content is new when I check it, but a lot of the times it is old because it kind of depends on the amount of times that I check it. I look at it and then I walk away or I forget what I'm doing and then I come back. Sometimes, it's just the same. And yeah, it's kind of annoying. But it just makes me have to scroll more. And it actually keeps you on it longer if you see a lot of the same stuff at the top. But it really does depend on how many times I've checked it already depending on whether it's new or not. | Usually, the first three things I see in my feed are from sponsored apps, like advertisements, nothing actually that I really want to see. So it'll be something that I've either googled about or-- I use Facebook, primarily, to keep up with friends that I haven't seen in a long time. So the last thing I want to see is app feeds or something that I've been looking at. I'm not going to purchase anything off of Facebook. So yes, I have to scroll quite a bit, usually, to get to where my friends have updated something about their lives or whatnot. | There we go. Sorry. It blanked out for a second. It's pretty easy once I see something that interests me to get more information about it. It's usually just a click of the link, and it'll bring you into more information. Sometimes it's reviews, which is really annoying, just customer reviews when all I want to see is what the product actually is, but I mean, for the most part, it's pretty easy. The problem is getting to the things that are actually interesting. It often takes a lot of scrolling, and that's kind of annoying, so it could be better. | So there are a lot of things, especially on Facebook, that are just not from anybody that's worth anything. I noticed that a lot of the products that appear on Facebook are from these drop shipping companies that have maybe been there for like a week or two. It's really hard to see what's real and what's not. You can buy customer reviews. So I mean, it's really hard to trust a company that you've never heard of. So usually, the sources are Google Ads or ad content that you can pay for to get that ad content on there, but I don't trust anything, really, unless I see that it's from a reputable company or a company that's been around for a long time. | I do save things from my feed a lot of the time. Sometimes there will be recipes on there that I don't need it right now but I want to look at it later. And sometimes if I'm out and about with the kids or something and I see something that I do want to read, I'll save it. And then that way, I can get back to it later. It's not really that hard to find what I've saved because it's in your saved files. You just have to go to your profile and then find what you've saved. But it's not very hard. The last item I remember saving is a article about the New Hanover County schools and what they're going to do with sending kids back to school or not. I didn't have time to read it right then and there, but I do want to read it. So I saved it. | So when it comes to sharing things, it's not hard to share a story. But you have to make sure that that person is also using the application that you're using to share it from. So if I'm sharing something from Facebook, it has to be somebody else that also uses Facebook, otherwise, they can't log in and see it. And that is kind of annoying because there are people that don't use Instagram, or don't use Facebook, or don't use whatever and you can't share it any other way. You can't download it to your phone and then share it that way. And then if this person is in, if it's in a private group or something, you can only share it within the group. So you can't share anything outside of the group. So it's not always easy to share, definitely. | So for me, looking at things on an app or on a phone are while I can or while I have a minute. So usually, if I'm just sitting there scrolling, I will sit there and scroll until something distracts me or something loses my attention. So it could be anything. It could be the kids yelling or fighting or getting in a fight, or the kids needing help with something, or me realizing that I need to do something. It isn't usually the content that makes me leave my feed. It's usually just that I have something else to do. | On every app, it's pretty easy to engage. I mean, that's kind of the point of these apps is to comment or read the article or actually share it. I don't think it's hard. It's easy to find the controls on either the computer or even on your app if you're on a mobile phone or something like that, or a tablet. Sometimes the user displays change whether you're on a computer or you're on a phone or you're on a tablet. But it's still pretty easy to either read it or comment on it or share it or to link to it. I don't find it very difficult at all. Sometimes it's just hard finding the right information. After you find out that the article is actually not really that legit, it's hard to get back to the app sometimes. But to satisfy the things that I want to interact with, it's not that hard. | So I have a pretty hard time of I can sit there and I can scroll for an hour and not even realize that an hour has gone by. So, again, it's not that easy for me to go back to what I was doing if it's something that I'm actually finding interesting. It's hard for me to actually put the phone down, which is something that I have to work on because I definitely have too much screen time. But if I'm really into something, I can sit there and just read it for a long time. And it's not a great thing because the ability to stop isn't really there if it's something that's engaging. If it's something that's not engaging, I have no problem just putting the phone down and walking away. |
Alesia R. 37 F | San Mateo | California UID: 244918 Unassigned Score: 4% Magnitude: | So this is the fee that I browse most often Twitter. I check it multiple times a day. It has everything that I enjoy following mostly politics related post. But I definitely checking multiple times a day. I don't think I don't have any feelings whether I should do it less or more. It's just a quick way for me to get an idea of what's going on both locally and within our country and around the world. So I follow various people in various interest groups.So this is how I get my information when I'm not able to catch the news. And yeah, I think I watch I think I check it pretty often. Not too much not too little. | So when I first look at my feed, it'll pull up the last thing that I was looking at and then a few seconds later. It'll allow me to press that home button and it'll refresh it and bring it up to the most recent post. If I were to click on a certain user to look at their specific post. It doesn't give it to me in like chronological order like me of the soonest one that they posted on down it kind of goes from just whichever one was either most viewed or or most liked whatever the case is how it seems it doesn't really impact anything at all. You can always easily find what it is that you're looking for if you're looking for the most recent but when it comes to the main feed, I definitely am able to see the newest post right away as soon as I press at home button when it's refreshed. | So the first three things that I see on my feed or this one right here then an ad right after that and right after that, it's another it's a article from a News website that I follow. I don't have to scroll too far to see what it is that I am interested in because essentially my homepage is full of things that are either relevant to my following following that are things that I follow relevant to things that I've liked to wear retweeted. So it doesn't the only thing that pops up is that the ad so and that's that's something you can easily so it's not anything. So here's a second ass, but for the most part of my entire feed is just things that whether I follow them or not, it's things that are relevant to what I search for what I follow so it's not an issue at all. | So just a quick showing of how easy it is. So when I come to a post that is something that I want to further look at so one such as this one it it's obvious. It goes into another website. So all you have to do is just click it and I can open up a new tab. It'll pull up all of that that article simple I just go right back or when I'm using the app. I just closed it on my phone and press done and it comes right back to it. So generally a lot of these posts will have to see if this one as well we'll have other links that you would follow to the relevant article. But this this particular social media site is really easy to navigate and really easy to just kind of get through what it is. You want to see and bypass what you don't | So this is an article that is on my feed from Breitbart News might my general approach to any kind of news Outlet. There. Are there all by us do it. So in a sense you have to look at both sides and then find the truth somewhere in the middle. So I do look at both sides of every story here. So there's different links that will be a little bit more liberal-leaning some Lily more conservatively. So I definitely look at both sides of it. That's why I followed both sides of the political Spectrum on this particular social media site, but I do know I do take it with a grain of salt every little article that I read. | The ring is very easy to save various things that I'm interested in. So there's a like button right here a retweet button. And then if I go to my actual profile here, it will show things that I've tweeted that I've tweeted and reply which I've never created a tweet myself, but I have retweeted many things and commented on various tweet. So it definitely shows everything that I've saved or or liked in a convenient spot for me to be able to access later or to be able to comment back on later. | So if there's ever a post that I wanted to share like sending a link of a article to the family or friend when you pull up the posters a way to share it and then you just simply choose from your phone. You want to send a video message via email. So I think this this particular social media site is very easy to share does the post that you see that you like save the post you liked retweet the post you liked and another thing so it's so yeah when I decide I want to share something if I do all I have to do is press the share button and decide how I want to share it. So I want to send it to and it's done. | So again, if there's content that I see on on my particular feed that I don't like which rarely happens because it's pretty consistent as far as what I follow or things that I've liked her or retweeted. I simply just scroll on past if there's ever if there were ever a person there were two comment something that was rude or they you know, what share some of that was rude. You can easily block a person. It's it's really easy just to keep scrolling and just not not even worried about it or if I find an article that I click on I don't like I close the article and move on to the next thing. | So taking this post for example, so an article here if I wanted to dive more deeply into it at all I have to do is just press the link. It'll pull it up. And I can just watch the video or read the article and makes it really easy to interact with. And there there's no issue there in the same thing as I keep going. There's various ones that you can just click on read more about it's very easy. You just click on that external link right there holes up the new tag Alberto open up something on your phone and was soon as you're done you press done and it brings you right back to your feed. So it's a really easy and useful tool to to have | The one on checking my feet. I generally don't do it for too long. I do it for you know a minute or so at a time and then later on a couple hours later. I'll check it again and see if it updated. So it's never a matter of if I've seen enough or not enough and I just check it real fast. And if it gets boring as I'm scrolling down and I closed it and I wait till later. I open it back up again. So it's pretty simple straightforward. I never feel like I'm missing out on anything when I'm scrolling through and I see all the different post if people have put up or different comments or or opinions of people have posted on there. It's a good balance of left-wing right-wing opinions. |
Allison w. 28 F | Wisconsin | — UID: 292083 Unassigned Score: 0% Magnitude: | Feed I check the most is my Facebook feed. I know you want me to show it on camera, so here's my laptop. Honestly, I don't know why it's not loading, but I wish that I checked this feed a little bit less because it just takes up so much of my life, and it's just people on the internet, and it's a lot of drama and ridiculousness. But I do love my Facebook time. | Really, every time I open or refresh my feed, it is something new. I can scroll down however and see the same thing multiple times. Okay. I'm refreshing it right now because I opened it for the last video. And the same post that was on top before still on top now. And then I usually always have ads on the side and my people who are online, which obviously that changes. And I'm trying-- my laptop isn't working too well. But like I said, it's usually different. But sometimes, it can stay the same. I usually always have different stories from different people at the top, different posts from different pages, things like that. Yeah. | So my first piece of information on my feed is anyone else trying to file your taxes, the IRS hasn't released their plans with them yet, blah, blah, blah. So that's not really too interesting to me, but I do like to read about other people's experiences, so I probably wouldn't stop and read much past that first sentence. The next thing is an ad for a game that I play. You get free spins because I haven't played it for a little bit, so they are going to give me five million coins to play. And then the next thing on my feed is a post that I posted and people are commenting on it in my baby group, so I would read the comments on that if they were new comments. And then my next post is one that I would scroll and stop and look at. It's my sister's wife. They have a chalkboard and. | It honestly really depends because some things that I look at have a lot of comments and a lot of drama and there's a lot of different pieces to it. So sometimes I take a really long time to read everything and look at profiles and deep search and do all those kinds of different things just to get more information on it because I'm kind of nosey. but if it's something quick like a picture of my friend's baby, I'll look at it. I might read the comments, but usually, I move on from those pretty quickly and move on to the next thing to try to entertain myself. | So I just refreshed my feed and the top post on here right now is a post from a mom blogger talking about the heavy metals and arsenic in baby food these days. I've looked into this a little bit more, reading the comments and stuff, but I believe all food has heavy metals and stuff in it because of the soil and water and everything else that goes into growing food. So I don't think that we should have to ban or boycott baby food products. I don't think that's the right thing to do because, like I said, I believe all food has heavy metals in it. So I guess I don't really trust the content or the person posting it. | I do save a lot of things on my feed that I'm talking about right now. Like I said, I'm on Facebook. There is a Saved tab on here that's really easy to get to. I save things like recipes or Facebook Marketplace ads that I don't have the money for at that time but I really want them so I can go back and look to make sure they're still there. The last thing I saved to my Saved area is a brand new Barbie Dreamhouse for $100, sealed in the box still, because I really wanted to get one for my daughter for her birthday. And they're $180 brand new in the store. I was able to find the post again with my Saved thing, and I bought the Barbie Dreamhouse. I was so excited. l love being able to go back and look at things that I thought I would lose because I have a bad memory. | It is extremely easy to share content on my feed with people. All I do is post or click a button if it's content that I didn't write. All there is is a share button and then you post it to your own wall or somebody else's wall that you want to share it with. Or you type in the what's on your mind area and you can put videos, pictures, statuses, song lyrics, recipes. Really, anything that you want to share, you can share. It's really nice because I share pictures of my kids, I share my thoughts, I share opportunities. I share a lot of things on my Facebook feed. | I can scroll through my feed for a long time before leaving it. Most of the time if I'm on Facebook, I'm just trying to kill time, and something else I need to do pops up. Or one of my kids needs my attention. Right now, I am seeing a post in a job for stay at home mom's group, and it's work from home with a full-time income setting appointments and opening accounts for a large manufacturing company similar to Sam's Club, Costco, that there's no starter kit to buy, no inventory to maintain. And that's the moment I would decide to leave my feed and go to something else because those posts really irritate me because I know they're all just scams and you need to recruit people. | This post that I want to interact with right now isn't really anything too horrible. There's nothing to look into. But I'm going to go read the comments because I bet they're really funny. But it's just a meme. And it says, "When I was a little kid, I thought this little piggy went to the market meant it went shopping," which is exactly what I've always thought. I never really thought anything different of it, so it's funny to me. I can like, comment, and share it which I'm sharing it right now, actually, because it's kind of funny. But yeah. Then I'm going to go read all the comments and see what other people have had to say about this because I bet there's some funny things in there, and that would really entertain me. I really think that memes and funny content are one of my biggest things I like to look at on Facebook. | I feel like I could scroll my Facebook feed endlessly and always find something interesting or that I want to look at. But if I scroll too far and start coming across posts that I've already seen or don't interest me, that's always about the time that I get off or like I said, if there's something else that makes me mad or something that I want to go do, I'll get off. But I always come back to it within an hour. So I guess it kind of feels like I'm always on this feed. Like I said, it's really interesting and always keeps me entertained. And I'm actually pretty good about logging off and going to do other things. It's really easy to just close out of it and save whatever I want, look at whatever I want, and come back to what I need later. Facebook is my favorite feed website. |
jim c. 63 M | Fort Pierce | Florida UID: 289252 Unassigned Score: 14% Magnitude: | I don't know if you can see it or not, clearly, but I was just on my Amazon Prime account checking orders with regard to something that I had placed today and also a couple orders I had placed a couple days ago. So that's what I was looking at with regard to it. I don't know if you say that I do-- I can say that I actually do it too much. I just like to keep track of what's going on. And I do like the new feature they have, where, when the order is being delivered, they actually have a process where you can watch it and it'll tell you how many stops away it is. And it is actually live. I was watching it yesterday and it counted down every time it made a stop and got closer to my location and then told me that it was there. I think I check it the right amount, given the fact that I have a number of things that are outstanding that I'm still waiting to receive. So I don't think it's too much. I think it's just about right. | As I mentioned in the previous screen, I had checked on orders that were on its way being delivered, and then I also checked on orders that I had placed this morning with regard to something new. And more than likely probably later on today, I'll probably place another order through Amazon with regard to some other items I'm looking to purchase. So that's pretty much where I'm at with regard to all this. And so I guess you could say I look at the current content, and then I also look at the new content and I just like to see exactly where we are. The one thing I like about Amazon is that all you have to do is basically just scroll and you can see exactly everything there whether it's been delivered, it's on its way to be delivered, those are the things I like about it. So you could go back as far as you want. Or if there's something you want to reorder, you can always go back too. | The first thing I normally see is basically my home page whenever I go in there. And then I can go ahead and basically just scroll down here, the page, and see what else is there. Now, in this particular instance, this is just the home page. But what I was looking at previously was my orders because I had mentioned I had just done some and also I was waiting on some. So that's what I looked at. So the first item you're going to-- the first three items are basically the home page and if it was asking for reviews and then there was also suggestions that they have as well. And then when I was going through it-- I mean, those work well for me for going to the feed, as far as information-wise. But then I drill down and I go into my orders to double-check and see where they are, if they've been placed, if there was a problem. That's pretty much what I'm looking for here. | The thing that I like about this particular app with the feed is that it's easy to navigate with regard to it. If I want to go into more detail, all I have to do is click on the particular item, and I can get more information. Like, in this case, it's telling me that the order that I placed is going to be arriving this coming Saturday. It tells me it was ordered, and then if you notice underneath that, it tells you when it's going to be shipped, when it's out for delivery, and when it's arriving, and so on. So it's real easy to go back and forth with regard to the feed here on Amazon's website. And that's definitely something that I like, because if I want to investigate further, I can, and it's real easy to be able to go back and forth depending on what you're looking for with regard to this. And that's the thing I like about it the most. It's very simple, very intuitive, and that's what I appreciate. | This is one of the items in my feed. Actually, this is one that I purchased, and I actually received this today. And then I went ahead and also reordered this particular item as well, because I need to get some more of it. So it's a type of thing-- the source is from Amazon. I trust the content very much. I already received this item already, so I know that it works. So it's a type of situation where, by going back in and looking, I was able to realize I needed to order some more. I trust it. It works. It's a type of situation where, pretty much anything that's here on Amazon, I feel comfortable with. I've had some issues with certain items that weren't exactly what they claimed what they were, but in this particular case, I have no issues with this. And this item does specifically live up to the expectations that I have with regard to it. And that's another reason why I went ahead and ordered another one. | This is basically a wish list. As you can see, there's various items on here. Some are available; some are not. So it's a type of thing where I would normally put on here items, let's say, either based on price or availability, like maybe they're not available right now. Others, the price is kind of high, so I'm just going to wait and see if the price comes down. But this way, I have an easy reference with regard to it. And when it comes to these particular items, it's just an easy place for it to be looked at. One of the last items that I saved was that printer that's there, but that printer has gone up about $200 since I first started looking at it. So I'm just going to go ahead and wait until it comes down. And then it is very easy to save it, and it's very easy to go back and look for it, because you just go under your lists under Amazon, and you can see it at that point. | It's very easy to share content. I'm not sure how clear you can see this, but these particular items I'm going to be sending to my son who lives out of state. Usually what I'll do is I'll screenshot these so this way he can take a look at them, but in this case, it's going to be more of a surprise. I wanted to get him something just because and so I went ahead and saved the items. But under normal circumstances, if let's say I was going to get him a birthday gift or something for when he graduated from college, I would take screenshots and send it to him so he can get an idea of what it looks like. And then this way, he could say, yes, no, or maybe something in a different variation. So that's a good thing about it. I like it with this because if it's in your cart or if it's on that list, you can take pictures and you can send it directly to the individual that you'll be sending it to to see what they think or if they want something else. | This question I'm a little unsure of, which says, "When viewing your feed, talk about the moment you decided to leave the content and why. What would cause you to potentially leave the feed?" If I'm in the midst of something, if I'm in the midst of a study or in the midst of looking for something, I would not leave the feed. I would definitely go ahead and complete whatever the assignment is or whatever I was looking for with regard to that. Normally, I set time aside so I can specifically do those individual tasks so that this way I don't have to abruptly leave them and potentially either have an issue or cause some kind of disruption with regard to it. So the way that I look at it is if I commit to something, and I say I'm going to do it, and I allot a specific time for it, then I will continue with that study or whatever that project is until it has been completed. I don't believe in starting something and then leaving it and then eventually going back to it. | This is one of the things that I like quite a bit about Amazon is that you are able to-- it's hard to see. I'm not sure if you can see this or not, that they leave detailed information with regard to questions, with regard to reviews, all the different things that are available. They'll even have people that'll even do videos with regard to their reviews as well, and that's definitely something that I like because it gives me much more information than just looking at a product because, obviously, anybody's going to put whatever they're trying to sell in a positive light. But to actually have people that have used the item and have left reviews with regard to it makes a big difference to me because I have seen in the past, when I didn't necessarily follow the reviews or look at the questions that come up, that, sometimes, you can be misled. So I make sure that I always follow that from now on if I ever have any questions. | Once I have gone through the reviews, the pictures, the questions, the feed, the information, all the review information, then I feel comfortable. I'll usually review the first maybe 10 or 15 reviews, look and see the questions, see if there's been any other issues, because one of the problems with something like that is that sometimes people will just put negative reviews for whatever reason. So you always have to kind of weigh it. There have been times when I was specifically looking to purchase a particular item and then read the reviews and then decided against it, because the reviews were not great, and the negatives outranked the positives. So that's kind of how I look at that ratio. If I'm seeing three-quarters or more in positive and a couple of reviews here and there that are kind of spotty, that are negative, then if I like the product, I'll still go ahead and do it. So the most important thing is to have that information available to me. |
Marshall B. 69 M | North Carolina | — UID: 287889 Unassigned Score: 12% Magnitude: | Well the most recent platform I've been checking is Facebook. And I wish I spent less time on there because it tends to take me down the rabbit hole and I know more people personally on there. So I tend to get involved with it and check it more frequently and spend more time on there than I would like. I would rather visit Tik Tok or Instagram where I can consume a lot of stuff really fast and find the most interesting things and move on. | The most recent platform that I've connected is Facebook. And I find that I spend more time on Facebook than I'd like because I know more people here personally and tend to find my way drifting into people's lives, even though I don't have a very strong interest in it, just because I know them. I'd rather spend my time on TikTok or Instagram where I can consume a whole lot of content really fast and then just zip through the stuff that's new, find something interesting, and move along. So I probably would say that Facebook is the one where I would like to consume less but I end up spending more time. | So the first three pieces of my feed? Mr. Peanut gave a bar in Atlanta a lot of money, which is a place I used to hang out, and I'm really interested in that. Sponsored post for an ad and a news piece do not grab me at all. Not very interested, and I zip on down. As far as for number two, I go about 9 or 10 steps before I run into something that's a repeat. And whenever I see something [from?] two days ago that I've seen, like this pizza, I just don't like when that happens. I just think it's, again, a waste of my time. So I'd rather move on and just keep going. | The Facebook post that interests me, Manuel's Tavern. There's really no link to the original post by Mr. Peanut and no link to any articles or information that tells me more about the details of this corporate gift to this local bar, giving them $130,000. I would like to know more about it. But I found it a little frustrating that there's no link to information or an actual story. | The source for the content of this story I like is Manuel's Tavern. The company is one I used to visit and know well. They've reposted an item which I can't tell exactly what platform. It looks like Twitter but I can't find this. I've been looking for the story with Mr. Peanut where it talks about the corporation giving the local bar $130,000. I trust that this content is valid because I know the source is Manuel's Tavern and they certainly wouldn't publicly post something like that. And they have had a successful GoFundMe page that has raised 100-plus thousand dollars. And this corporate gift, I believe, is credible, but I don't know the source of what that story post is. | I save stuff by sending myself a-- I share it and I send myself a Facebook message, or I send myself a text, which is what I've been doing more lately. Most recently, I copied this hotdog story and posted it in Medium, and I texted it to myself to read later. I find it a little difficult to revisit the stuff because it gets buried in quite a long stream of texts or messages, and sometimes, I completely forget about it. But I do wish there was a better way to save specific posts in different streams that I come around online. But for now, I'm just sticking with the texts because I think that seems to work best for me. | It's very easy to share a Facebook post because there's a share button and it's very easy to click on that and share it with whom I want and my friends. I generally send it in Messenger and I select them from the list, just click to send it to them, and it's easy to post. I don't share things on people's timeline. I think that's annoying. I don't want people doing it to me. So I find it very easy to share, specifically with the people that I want to, and the different options make it easy. So if I wanted to repost or put it out on someone's timeline it's very easy to do that. Simple. | I look at content pretty quick. I don't care much about sponsored posts and advertising. A lot of celebrity stories I don't care a hoot about and just keep right on going. News stories, people that don't interest me, if I see something like this in Florida, I may watch it a while to see what's going to happen, but I don't give people's videos a whole lot of time if it's not something I'm very interested in. There are a lot of ads. I keep trying to go through that. People that I know and care about I'll spend more time on. Contests and posts like this that are simply text, I glance at, usually, but keep right on going. I'm more interested in interesting pictures, so that keeps my attention. | When I find an article a friend of mine has posted, I might not be able to interact with a broader audience. I find it easy, I can comment to my friend's stream or share it or press a like button and can interact in a smaller group. But when I find the source of the original article, I find that I'm not able to interact sometimes with the original post and I might want to reach a broader audience in my comments. But usually, I don't, so that's not a big bother. | I find some feeds are easier to exit than others. On Facebook, if I don't find a lot of interesting, to me, content and posts of people that I know, I'm usually pretty quick to leave because it's filled with ads and some things that just kind of bore me. Other platforms, like TikTok, I might spend a lot more time on because the content is not very many ads, it's very fast paced, and there's a lot of volume, so you can scroll through fast, fast, fast. Wherever you have to read text, that particularly slows you down. And I get pretty tired of it pretty quick, but then again, I'll come back very often. Probably too often. |
Alexandra P. 38 F | Pennsylvania | — UID: 292588 Unassigned Score: 5% Magnitude: | So the most recent feed that I interacted with was TikTok, and I will show you [showing feed] So I feel like I interact with TikTok a little bit more than I should, but I do get a lot of good information. There's a lot of good recipes on there, tips for making extra money or saving money and using coupons and things like that. And then there's just a lot of cute funny stuff with babies and animals and people doing silly things and dances and lots of good workout information which I'm really into. So I do end up spending a lot of time on there, maybe more time than I should, but it is, I guess, well spent also. | When I first look at my TikTok feed, the content is new. Sometimes I see content that is similar to things that I've seen recently or seen in the past, but it's usually related to stuff that I liked, or I saved, or favorited. So I appreciate that I'm seeing new stuff, but it's still along the same lines of the stuff that I do like. I might save or like a recipe example, and then, the next time I open it, I might have another recipe from someone else that's similar, that I might also want to save. | The first three videos that I saw when I opened TikTok were someone making a slushy out of snow and coke, and someone giving a new iPhone to someone who really deserved it, and someone pulling a prank with turning a cup of orange juice upside down and the person pulled it out, and it spilled everywhere. Not exactly what I was looking for when opening TikTok. I tend to really appreciate the useful information, for me, at least when I first open it, like the recipes, or the financial advice, or the workout advice, so I wish I would have opened to a little bit more of that. I usually scroll through at least 10 to 15 videos before I find something that I really like and really want to investigate. | I think it's fairly easy to understand the ideas behind the TikTok videos for the most part. There's usually little captions that explain what's going on or give links to things, or close-captioning on the screen, giving some extra explanation. If there is something I want to look into further, I usually click on that user's profile so that I can see maybe some of their other videos if they have something similar, or click the links that they have in their bio section. They usually bring to pages with the products that they're showing or pages that have more information about what they're talking about. And I think it's fairly easy to get that information. | I saw a video of a girl showing workout attire that she bought on Amazon and talking about what she liked and didn't like. That caught my eye because I'm looking for new workout attire and I was planning to buy it on Amazon. I watched her video and then I went to her page and I don't know that I really trust her opinion that much because she's not someone who posts a lot about working out or about buying things from Amazon very often, so it seemed like it was kind of a new thing for her to talk about, so I might scroll through and see if I can find some other recommendations. But I did take a look at the link in her profile that has the items that she mentioned and saved them to go back to later in case I decide I do want to purchase them. | I do save things from my TikTok feed fairly frequently to reference later. The most recent thing that I saved was a woman sharing a recipe for crockpot chicken tortellini spinach dinner. I saved that so that I could go back and reference it and see what ingredients she included and I could go and buy those ingredients at the store myself. On TikTok, there's an option to save the video to your phone, to your camera gallery, I usually use that option. I think there is an option to save it within your TikTok account, also, but I don't know how to do that or where to look for that, so I usually save it to my phone. | I think it's fairly easy to share content with other people from TikTok. I usually use the option of saving the video to my phone and then texting it to somebody if I want them to see it. It would be nice to be able to share it in different ways also. There's some people that I would like to share things with that I don't necessarily text or have their phone number. I know when I've tried to save the video and send it via Snapchat, it tells me the video is too long, so I can't send it that way. I would also like to be able to send the video through direct message on Instagram, but I don't think that's an option. When you click share with Instagram, I think it just gives you the option to put it on your feed or as a story which I did not want to do. I wanted to send it to one specific person. So there's definitely ways that I would like to share content that I'm not able to currently. | I usually decide to leave content and keep scrolling if the video is really poor quality-- if somebody's moving around a lot and it's hard to see what's going on. If there's poor lighting and you can't really see what's going on. If it's about something malicious. Sometimes there's pranks that hurt other people. I don't like that kind of stuff. Some of the posts are really sad-- about people in breakups and losing loved ones and I don't really need any more sadness in my life. Sometimes they're just not relevant to anything that I want or I'm interested in that moment. So I would keep scrolling. Or if it's too similar to a lot of stuff that I've been watching. Some of the workout videos-- it's the same workout challenge that everybody's been doing so I don't need to see it a hundred times. | Usually, it's pretty easy to find more information about something I'm interested on TikTok. I usually click that person's profile who shared it and see if they have any other videos about that same content and see if they have any links in their bio related to that content. I will say that most of the links in the people's bios are things that you can buy like their Amazon page or things like that. There's not always links about information, which I don't even know if that's an option on TikTok. So I would appreciate more links that are related to information about things, not just links to purchase items. I don't think it would be nice if you could click-- if there was a link, or you could click or read more information in someone's caption on their video. Sometimes those don't have a ton of information, and I'm not sure if you can put links to anything in there. And sometimes people's content isn't related, so there isn't more information easily accessible. | I feel like I definitely scroll too long on TikTok, and I think it's because there are a lot of videos that I'm not interested in which is not that big of a deal because you just swipe real quick and keep going to find something you do want. But that takes up time, so I end up scrolling for sometimes hours at a time just to save a couple videos that I find interesting. I think sometimes it just gets kind of repetitive, but then there's still this urge to keep scrolling because maybe the next video will be really cool, or maybe there's something that will be super interesting that I want to save. Let me just scroll through a couple more videos and then a couple more. And it's almost addicting. And there's the trends that people are doing on TikToks. You want to be up with all the new information, so I end up scrolling to see what's out there and to make sure I know what's going on and definitely for a long time. |