Social Media Survey using Decision Tree and Naive Bayes Classification

Abstract

Social media is one of the most important aspects of our day to day life. For you my wonder what exactly is social media. Social media is nothing more than a website or an application that is used to create and share content among a social networking. Recent studies claim that an average person spends roughly 142 minutes per day on some form of social media. Now that may seem like a small number but considering how many people are addicted to social media might make the number far larger. Over the past few years the daily usage of social media for an average person has increased from a mere 100 minutes per day to its current 142 minutes per day. Although people around the world are spending a chunk of their day on social media platforms it is hard to identify whether such platforms are a boon or a con for mankind. Although most people argue that social media is purely a waste of time, a recent study was able to establish a conclusion that people who use social media have lower stress levels. A women who used social media several times a day scored 21% less stress levels then that of a women who had no interest of social media at all. However there are many argument out there to support that it is a bad influence among people as well. One of the most popular one being the fact that people simply are so caught up with social media that they forget the value or even how to interact with someone face to face. We weren't particularly interested in the effects of social media but we wanted to learn what types of social media platforms people preferred. Considering the fact that we live in a digital era where any data on the internet can be easily manipulated we wanted to find out how secure people felt on each social media platform. Keeping all these in mind we decided to learn more about people's approach to social media platforms. “How Do People React and Feel Towards Their Social Media Platforms?”