Can I Ask You A Question ?

So this blog originally was going to be about a totally different subject but as I go on you will see why.

A few months ago I set up a survey at Survey Monkey entitles 'Why did you follow?' It was only 5 questions long , with options for males and females singularly.

Basically I wanted to find out why people choose to follow other people on Twitter, does a pretty / sexy avi draw in people  , is it subjects that you have in common  or is it that other people that you know follow them and you are interested too?

Simple you might think , nothing scary and no personal information like my last survey on attitudes to porn in 2013 which got 50 responses!!

So how many responses did I get you are asking ?

13 !! Yes only 13 !! 6 male and 7 female so not exactly a broad cross section of the public and certainly not enough to get a proper response , so a change of blog topic needed I think !!

What is it about surveys that puts people off filling them in ?

I must admit I do not like survey people in the street or on the telephone. Mainly because if I am walking down the high street I usually have somewhere I need to be and haven't got the time to stand in the cold and answer random questions to a stranger. also the telephone ones usually call when you are cooking or doing something useful and who actually knows who is at the other end of the line ?!

But the occasional online survey doesn't bother me. If I can help someone or improve a service to other people just by giving 5 minutes of my time in between Tweeting or playing Candy Crush ;0) then why not.

Obviously if the survey turns into page after page after page or stuff that I really don't need / want to tell anyone then I just click the close button , no harm done.

I really wonder how the television show 'Pointless' manages to get 100 people randomly to answer there questions for the show. Apparently the people who answer them don't know they are for the show but 100 people per question is good going !!
 
 And just in case you were wondering ( I know you were) a sexy avi pic will only get you dm pictures of penises not nice Twitter followers. Generally someone sees some of your tweets and thinks you are interesting , they know you in 'real' life or you follow mutual people , simple as that . But then that IS just the response from 13 people :0) xxx