The Social Software Weblog is running a series of short surveys on YASNS (Yet Another Social Networking Service)- its a great initiative - and makes me think its time someone started building normative 'consumer' data in this industry, to be used as a benchmark against which dipsticks can be done at intervals.  94 as an absolute sample size is statistically rigorous - the researcher in me is now thinking of how 'representative' is this sample. 

This could perhaps be a pre-cursor to a larger survey at some point in time !

YASNS BlogPoll Survey Results

"A short and incomplete survey indeed, but the results are:



This is just the first in a series of simple polls I will be performing of readers who are experimenting with various social networking services.  The next poll will be: “How many social networking services do you actively utilize?” And this time I will include “0” as an option."

Interesting observation from Marc - "the idea of SNS and the allure of SNS is still hot and; the fulfillment of them - once you're there - is not". 

Meanwhile, Judith has set up her second short survey in the series - the question this time is "How many social networking services do you actively utilize?'.  

This would probably add complexity to the survey and analyses tools, still we probably need a scale of sorts to obtain better answers - once a day/once a week/once a month/once a quarter/twice a year/once a year or less often, with frequency distribution .......... or some such thing. 

I feel there can be a great story here!