For the most up-to date draft, see:
Creep Me Draft 3
Appendix A: Survey
Pre and Post Writing
Methods Pre-Write
Methods Post-Write
- Persons who are extroverted are more likely to engage in peer monitoring in order to protect social capital, whereas persons who are introverted are likely to engage because they seek to desire traits of others; gaining social capital.
- People who have more lax privacy settings wish to be noticed, indicating extroversion.
- Extroverts are more likely to contradict themselves with social acceptability of peer monitoring behavior, because admitting to such a phenomenon would result in loss of social capital.
- There is a disparity between the likelihood of being monitored and close friends being monitored, along with a third person effect when engaging in peer monitoring.
- Attractiveness of peers is likely to influence the acceptability of a person monitoring another’s profile.
The survey’s participants consist of persons in English classes at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). The prerequisites for taking the survey include the following:
- Being an undergraduate student at IUP
- Possessing a Facebook account
- Having accessed the account in the past seven days
The study will gather as many participants as possible, preferably up to 100. However, for a reasonable survey, 30 full responses are acceptable. The survey questions will be online. To eliminate potential outside bias, students will be asked to take the survey without the assistance of peers. To eliminate students modeling answers based off their manufactured images, the true objective of the survey will not be given until the end; the survey will be entitled “Facebook Privacy Violations and Behaviors”. The survey will be divided into eight parts, consisting of 29 total questions. The survey will take approximately five to ten minutes to complete. To eliminate self-correction and modeling, students will not permitted to modify previous sections. The first part will consist of questions gauging personality traits, such as perceived materialism and egotism, as well as introversion versus extroversion. Gender will also be asked, but will only be used to find secondary correlations. Part 2 will inquire about general usage habits such as number of times accessing Facebook and number of Facebook friends. These two sections are meant to create an extroversion index which will be used to create a correlation with the first and third hypotheses.
Part 3 will consist of questions related to privacy; for instance profile protection settings and whether or not a person had suffered a violation of privacy. This information will be used to create an index of “concern for privacy”, which is necessary for correlations in hypothesis 2. Part 4 will ask the user if they have ever heard of the term “Facebook creeping”, and what they believe it entails. They will be asked how likely it is someone has “creeped” them, as well as the likelihood of this happening to a close friend. These two questions will create a correlation for hypothesis four. Part five will ask the user five specific examples of Facebook creeping, and ask them to gauge the social acceptability of these situations. These situations model similar situations in part six, this will allow for contradictions to be found between behavior of others and behavior of the self.
Part six asks users if they have engaged in observing the profile information, photos, or videos of a stranger. However, it does not specifically mention “creeping” or “peer monitoring”. In short, it is asking people to admit whether or not they have engaged in the behavior. This question is an example of why the survey cannot be taken with others; because some may not want to admit to the behavior around others.
Part seven examines users which answered “yes” to part six. A list of several options is presented as to why they would engage in peer monitoring. Additionally, users are given the option to input their own response. Some of these responses such as “I wanted to be popular like them” will be used to determine correlation with personality traits. The final part looks for contradictions between the monitoring by the user and monitoring of the user. Finally, the last hypothesis is examined by question number 28, which asks if attractiveness and relationship availability of the monitor changes their attitude towards their behavior. The survey ends with a debriefing on the true purpose of the study (which the user infers by this point, anyhow), as well as contact information.
At this point, preliminary testing needs to be accomplished to determine the statistical analysis needed to create the indexes.
