I promised last week to post the results of the SurveyMonkey survey, so here they are, in brief -

51 respondents so far

The first question asked respondents to check boxes next to and social networks that they belong to - certainly not a comprehensive list, but containing some of the major names.  The top three sites were Facebook (79.2%), LibraryThing (60.4%) and Twitter (43.8%).  MySpace was 4th with 39.6%.

The second question asked respondents to pick one that they preferred, or as one commenter pointed out, which one they use the most.  Facebook far outpaced even the closest rivals as the preferred (or most used) of the social networks, with 65.1% of the total.  LibraryThing and Twitter were distant 2nd and 3rd, with 18.6% and 9.3%, respectively.

I included a question about age ranges, but honestly I’m not sure what to do with it.  The whole thing was part demo and part personal interest, and I thought somehow I would be able to correlate ages with preferences, but it doesn’t look like I can do that.  What I have is a nearly bell-shaped curve of respondent age, with the largest contingent being 26-33 (34%), with 46-59 in second with 28%, and 34-45 in third with 20%.

Conclusion - I probably could have included several other relevant questions to help determine other factors involved, such as income, education, and the usual.  I figure the bulk of infodoodads readers are librarians or in library and information related professions, but I could be assuming too much.  It seems that facebook is the clear ‘winner’ in the survey as the online hangout for infodoodads readers, and MySpace (the big main competitor of Facebook) doesn’t appear to hold much interest to infodoodads readers.  I’d say infodoodadders like a range of online social activities, but aren’t interested in repetition - so one large social network (facebook), one fun personal use type diversion thing (LibraryThing) and one quick communication technology (Twitter) are enough.  And really, how much more social can a person be?

I’ll leave the survey up, so if you haven’t weighed in yet, feel free to do so!