A student survey · 100 responses
Does your algorithm
or your friends
know you better?
A survey of students asks how social media algorithms compare with the people who know them personally.
See what respondents saidALGORITHMVSFRIENDS
The question
Who seems to understand a student's interests?
The survey does not test predictions question by question. Instead, each response records a student's social-media activity, their agreement with the statement that algorithms infer their interests better than friends, the platform they feel knows them best, and a 1–10 rating of how well that platform knows them.
How to read it
Each row is one student's perspective.
01Grade level
02Social-media activity
1–5
1–5
03Algorithm vs. friends agreement
1–4
1–4
04Platform named
05Knowledge rating
1–10
1–10
Higher agreement values mean stronger agreement with the survey statement; labels for the individual scale points were not included in the provided data. The site therefore shows distributions and average ratings—not a fabricated “accuracy” score.
Explore the responses
One respondent at a time.
Response 01
- Social-media activity
- Agreement: algorithms know interests better than friends
- Platform that knows them best
- Algorithm knowledge score
Less activeMore active
Results
Students rate platforms highly—but their views are split on the comparison.
Average rating across all 100 responses.
Agreement uses the survey's 1–4 scale.
Breakdown
Which platforms were named?
Selections reflect perceived familiarity, not independently measured performance.
What the data shows
Final read
This survey measures perception—not a head-to-head prediction contest.
Respondents gave their chosen platform an average score of 8.0 / 10. But the spreadsheet contains no friend predictions, algorithm predictions, actual answers, or correctness fields, so it cannot calculate whether algorithms or friends objectively “won.” What it can show is how students perceive the tradeoff.