The question I posted to my Facebook page for people to respond to was, "For college students, how did you spend your spring break and what made you choose these plans over others?" I only received four responses, which is much less than what I was expecting. Of the people who responded, three went out of town just to get away from Blacksburg and do something different to pass the time. One person went home so that she could work and earn a little bit of money to pay off some bills once she returned to school.
It could be that not a lot of people responded because they had already told me in person what they did over spring break. I also posted the question in the middle of the day when students would be in class, so maybe it was too far down on their "News Feed" once they got back to their computers. Or maybe it was just a hectic week getting back from spring break and they saw my post, said they would post to it later after they did homework or something, and then forgot to come back to it later. Either way, it sounded like most people got away from Blacksburg for their spring break, whether it was going home, doing mission work, or just doing some traveling for some different scenery.
You raise an interesting point. Time of day could affect not only how many people respond to a question, but even what groups of people respond. Different groups of people may go online at different times of day, for example... That may mean that you can only get responses from a specific group of people when you post crowdsourcing questions.
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