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I've been pretty interested lately in where New Zealanders are talking online. This survery has a lot of interesting data and seems to show that vast majority of New Zealanders are on facebook over other platforms. That sucks because I do not and will not ever use facebook and cant view any of the discussion because it requires an account.

The survey seemed to show that NZers are feeling less and less optimisic about the internet with the 2024 data showing only 74% think the positives outweight the negatives compared to 90% in 2019.

I was very relieved to see that the results show NZers really dont like AI and think its very concerning.

I was surprised at the amount of people who never use SMS and I am thinking of getting rid of SMS as well and seeing how that goes.

The trends that looked at what specifically people cared about showed people care about the right things but its super blackpilling to see these numbers show people care about these things but their behavior reflects the complete opposite. Like 60-70% of people putting data privacy as their #2 issue while facebook being the most used site.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting stuff! A bit damning that the most used platforms are Meta owned.

Like 60-70% of people putting data privacy as their #2 issue while facebook being the most used site.

I think I read this a bit different. If we are talking about the same thing, it is talking about data security not data privacy. I see this as "data privacy" is not wanting companies to exploit your data (something I'm concerned about), "data security" is not wanting "hackers" to break into your facebook account and scam your friends, something that apparently the average NZ internet user is worried about.