Student Digital Impact Survey

Hello, Smartie!

Thank you for taking the time to take this survey. Your answers are anonymous, so please be as honest as possible.

Smart Gen Society will use the results of this survey to help understand the impact of smartphones, social media, and digital safety and privacy. The results of this survey will remain private and confidential.

A little bit about you

Remember, your answers are anonymous, private, and confidential.

Grade

Birth Year

Gender

Zip Code

Let's talk about your smartphone

1. I have the following type of smartphone

2. I keep my phone near or in my bed at night.

3. I got my first device at age

4. I feel like I generally spend (select) hours on my PHONE everyday.

5. I feel like I generally spend (select) non-educational hours on a SCREEN everyday.

6. Please open your Screen Time on your smart phone, what is your Daily Average?

7. I have (how many) best friends that I spend time with in person.

9. Of the following ways, I prefer talking with my friends:

First favorite way

Second favorite way

Third favorite way

Fourth favorite way

10. If I received a text from a friend, I feel I must reply right away.

11. If I received a text from famiily, I feel I must reply right away.

12. I feel pressure about checking my social media HOURLY.

13. I feel pressure about checking my social media DAILY.

Let's talk about social media

14. I use the following social media platforms:

Instagram

Snapchat

X (Twitter)

Facebook

TikTok

Discord

15. When possible, I have ALL my social media accounts on private

16. I allow my friends to use social media or apps to find my location?

17. I use social media or apps to find my friends, see who they are with, or what they are doing?

18. Online, I am comfortable allowing anyone to see my location.

19. I have received messages online offering me money, opportunities, or gift cards

20. I have received inappropriate online, comments, compliments, pictures or requests for pictures

21. I have been bothered by inappropriate comments, compliments, pictures or requests for pictures online.

22. I have been harassed online by unwanted comments, threats, inappropriate pictures or requests for pictures.

Let's talk about how social media makes you feel.

23. For each group of words, choose which word you use to describe how social/interactive media makes you feel most of the time:

Confident Kind of confident Kind of insecure Insecure

Included Kind of included Kind of left-out Left-out

Calm Kind of calm Kind of anxious Anxious

Happy Kind of happy Kind of sad Sad

Energized Kind of energized Kind of tired Tired

Intelligent Kind of intelligent Kind of unintelligent Unintelligent

Popular Kind of Popular Kind of Unpopular Unpopular

Attractive Kind of attractive Kind of unattractive Unattractive

Safe Kind of safe Kind of unsafe Unsafe

26. Pick the statement that best describes the way you feel about social media.

Final thoughts

Is there anything in this survey that sparked a thought you would like to share?

About SGS

Smart Gen Society (SGS) has created a research based preventative education program to help counteract the negative implications of a society immersed in technologies with a lack of resources and education to safely manage them.

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Student Digital Impact Survey

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