Facebook Questionnaire

1. Age:

2. Gender:

3. Town/City:

4. How long have you been a Facebook user?

5. How often do you log onto Facebook?: Everyday/At least once a

week/Less than once a week

6. How many hours a week do you spend on Facebook?: less than 1

hour a week/1-5 hours a week/ 5-10 hours a week/more than 10 hours a
week

7. What is your main purpose for using Facebook? Communicating and

connecting with existing friends/ networking (meeting new people online)/
work (business, school, college etc)? Other

8. Do you use Facebook as a substitute for other modes of

communication technology? If so which forms?

9. Do you think you spend less or more time socialising offline since
you joined Facebook? Why do you think this is so?

10.How many online Facebook “friends” do you currently have?

11.What proportions of your online “friends” have you never met

offline? : None/ Less than 5%/5-10%/more than 10%
12.Since using Facebook, has the number of offline friends who live
locally increased, decreased or no change? Why do you think this
is the case?

13.Since using Facebook, has the number of offline friends who live
outside your region increased, decreased or no change? Why do
you think this is the case?

14.What proportion of your online “friends” do you have very

infrequent contact with offline (less than once a year)? : Less than
10%/10-25%/26-50%/51-75%/greater than 75%

15.What proportion of your online “friends” are you in contact with

offline at least once a month? Less than 10%/10-25%/26-50%/51-
75%/greater than 75%

16.What proportion of your online “friends” are you in contact with

offline at least once a month? Less than 10%/10-25%/26-50%/51-
75%/greater than 75%

17.Would you say since joining Facebook you are now in contact with
a greater or lesser number of people offline, on a weekly basis?

18.Of all your online “friends”, how many of them live locally? What
proportion of them live
a) Within the same town
b) Within the same region
c) Same country