Living in a Tech World- A Survey by the Greek School

Our class conducted a survey to find out more about the social media students use. All of the students of A’ class of our school participated (79 students). We were surprised to discover that one of us doesn’t own a smartphone! We have come to think of smartphones as essential tools for our everyday life.

We found out that the majority of students spends 2-4 hours on social media on a daily basis. More than a quarter of the students spend more than 6 hours every day absorbed in their social media. It seems to us that the appeal of social media for young people is intense and sometimes may lead to addiction.

Most of the time spent online by students is devoted to connecting with others on social networks. Students also enjoy watching films and TV series online and some of them enjoy playing online games. Few use the internet to inform themselves about current affairs and to complete their homework.

About 80% of the students stated that their favourite social network is Instagram nowadays. We believe this is so because this is an app that was exclusively designed for smartphones which is the device mostly used by teens to access their social media accounts. Instagram is also a platform that provides a range of options and possibilities.

In the last question of this survey we asked students to answer what problems they believe can arise from the use of all these networks. We were not at all surprised to see that a lot of students believe that the daily use of social media can lead to addiction and we couldn’t agree more. The next most popular answer is personal information theft which is a very serious problem. Next, goes low marks at school and last is misunderstanding between friends.

You can see our survey responses here .