Social Media Behaviour of Engineers

You may have overestimated the forum's, "social media behavior" and its "willingness to participate in this survey".

Is that poor mouse stuck?

Which one? I see one is trying to give the other one a "shove" from behind?!?

Does it matter? Stuck is stuck.

Gave up answering survey when I got "! This question requires an answer" for questions A) I didn't want to answer B) I didn't answer because they weren't applicable, and C) to which I'd actually typed an answer in the 'other' box.

Suggest you re-design your survey - it's not a fekkin' IRS form.

Buy the info from Windoz 10.

What is my incentive to complete your homework survey.

I know this is a homework assignment and we are not your lab rats.

Yeah, and the lucky one already sneak out to freedom at AP#1 post#2.

"digital behaviourism[sic]"

Well, I am either actively connected to the internet or I am off.

I guess when Apple finally releases a quantum Mac Pro I can be both on and off the internet at the same time, but there would be no way to be certain without disturbing the whole entangled affair.

If you studied my pattern of internet use I suspect it would produce a moire pattern.

Unfortunately, I really have better things to do with the next 15 minutes of my life, but I sincerely wish yours will be insightful and rewarding. Best of luck.

In a nutshell my behavior is: Read stuff on internet - mostly ignore what is said.

REPORTED as a duplicate posting!

I can give you the result of your survey in one sentence...Engineers in social media forums are uncooperative unless we are telling you what to do!

Drew K

Engineers in social media forums are uncooperative I would add "sarcastic".

You mean sar-caustic.

Only if they are chemical engineers!

Your reading my entire repertoire of social media at this moment.

Same here. No need to look any further.

Ditto. This is it.

"Your reading my entire repertoire of social media at this moment."

It's not "Your" it is You Are or You're contracted.

"Your reading my entire repertoire of social media at this moment."

It's not "Your" it is You Are or You're contracted.

Are is not capitalized, it should be: are

LOL, I did that because you spent the time to do what you did, this is social media for engineers...

This post says more about the social media behaviour of the original poster rather than that of any respondents, as the aggregated response cannot be assessed as statistically significant!

As CR4 is not a homework cheat site (see CR4 Rules of Conduct), any perceived invitation to respond is declined.

Having been abused by a rowdy gang of engineers in my youth, I feel that any comment I make will be biased. They still owe me that paper rout money.

Some engineers refuse to do surveys.

Your request and survey has a flawed base assumption and the data you are collecting is thus compromised.

Not everyone on this forum is an Engineer!!

Engineering is donkey's job. Engineers have to sweat at their factories, design offices. Always busy with solving the problems. How much time is left for them to engage in social media?

Yeah, some busy and pre-occupied in CR4

While I appreciate your effort to conduct a survey, please be sure to explain how you have dealt with self-selection bias when you report your results.

You mean like subconsciously selecting only the engineers that have mismatched socks and pocket protectors, from all engineers?

Oh, please, let's not get into clothing habits. Unless we want to start talking about wearable engineering. And I'm not interested in the Apple wrist doo-dad. I'm more interested in this kind of wearable engineering:

Affordable prosthetics

Besides, don't all engineers who wear socks wear mismatched socks??

It takes an engineer to turn a stupid joke into something interesting.

Thanks.

I find I do that by accident a number of times. :-)

Usually, I find that, by accident, I turn something interesting into a joke...(sometimes not by accident )

It isn't so much an occupation that makes a difference, it is a personality type, how much interaction one has with social media, whether someone sees any value in social media, etc., that depends how much or whether someone uses social media.

A high number of engineers are; Melancholy/C/Beaver type of personality. Detail oriented, reserved.

And a lot of engineers are not.

Quite right. It's just that often we are drawn to what fits us best skill and personality- wise. There for sure aren't any hard and fast rules but we're usually more comfortable and fulfilled in particular areas of occupation.

I saw this illustrated one time in a business environment and a talk by Dr. Robert Rohm who has developed the DISC personality type training. He had everyone in the room, probably 4K people, move to different quadrants of the room depending upon if they were; outgoing or reserved or task oriented or people oriented. He then asked for those who worked in math and sciences. A high majority of those people were in the reserved/task oriented quadrant (C).