Melissa - Experiment Four

As I was not getting much of a response from sending out questions via email, I decided to try some questions via status updates. This would allow anybody on my Facebook to respond if they had an answer that they would like to share, and it would not be a forced response. I created these statuses at times of relatively high activity.

The first status did not get an immediate response:

I allowed an hour for responses to that question, before posting the next one. The second question received an immediate response from several people:

The following are the links to the sites that were suggested:

• Ted
• Go Fug Yourself
• Texts From Last Night
• Etsy
• Nic Cage As Everyone
• Hide N Seek

And the videos that were recommended:

The fairly extensive response to this question showed that many people have a strong connection with some form of online content, and that sharing this content is quite an easy thing. The responses were quite enthusiastic, and some participants responded more than once.

I also received several responses to my third status:

In this case, one of the respondents posted the same link, showing their connection with that particular blog.

The following day my first status has received a response:

Although the responses provided may not necessarily be useful for creating video content, this experiment demonstrated that it is much easier to receive a response when the question is open to all Facebook connections. As the question was not directed to any particular individuals, only those that felt they had something to contribute responded. This also meant that most of the responses were serious answers, as people were not making jokes in order to feel as though they had provided some kind of answer.