Professor Hideki Kiyoshima of Kinki University Faculty of Applied Sociology, Department of Social and Mass Media, who is conducting research from the perspective of philosophically analyzing phenomena that occur in the Internet society, is a "communication app that is often used" for first-year students. Conducted a questionnaire survey.As a result, it was found that "LINE" was ranked first, and that 1 out of 1 people actually used it.
This survey targeted 2016 first-year students enrolled in Kinki University in 1, and chose "LINE," "Twitter," "Google," "Facebook," "Skype," "instagram," "vine," and "others." Asked, "Which of the following communication apps do you use most often?"As a result, "LINE" was used by the majority of students at 7,355%, followed by "Twitter" at 75.4%, and it was found that these two exceeded 17.6%.On the other hand, "Facebook" was 2% and "instagram" was 90%, showing a clear difference in usage frequency.
When we interviewed students, we heard that "LINE is easy and can be used on a daily basis" and "Twitter can receive information from strangers and can be sent to many people."From here, (XNUMX) LINE is used as a "group-only chatting place" for daily communication, (XNUMX) Twitter is used as an "open information transmission tool" for collecting and disseminating information, and (XNUMX) both LINE and Twitter are used. You can see the students who use it properly according to the content of the exchange.
"The fact that LINE is being used at this rate is almost the same as what I usually felt when interacting with students. It is a convincing number for a large-scale questionnaire targeting more than 7,000 new students. It seems, "says Professor Kiyoshima."This questionnaire is aimed at first-year students who have just entered the school, but this percentage may not change much as the grade progresses," he said.
