世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Ranking’s entertainment for today is a look at what happenings on LINE irritate people. LINE is a chat program used by almost two-thirds of the sample in a recent survey, but I am still LINE-free.

Demographics

Between the 6th and 8th of August 2013 the survey was conducted, but goo Ranking have still not got round to adding the page that contains the further demographic information. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Here’s some chicken soup-flavoured Pocky; at least that’s what the LINE tie-up image seems to be suggesting to me:

You will of course notice that answers one and two are basically mutually exclusive! Looking at the split between male and female, men were more itchy about not getting replies, whereas women found being asked to reply more irritating, but just 10 points or less separated the pairs for both men and women.

Ranking result

Q: What annoys you about LINE? (Sample size=just over 1,000)

Rank		Score
1	People asking “You’ve read my message, so why haven’t you replied yet?”	100
2	My messages are marked as read, but no-one has replied yet	96.0
3	Getting frequent messages about, presents from LINE games	72.5
4	Sending a message but nobody reading it	57.7
5	People having personal chat in a group talk	51.7
6	Sending a message split into thousands of separate lines	46.3
7	Apologising for being late with just a stamp emoticons	45.6
8	Posting a URL without any explanation about it	45.0
9	Someone who wasn’t close before starts to force their way into our group	44.3
10	Chatting in stamp emoticons only	43.6
11	Playing a LINE game and being unable to respond to new messages	42.3
12	Missing out on sleep from spending all night getting new stamp emoticons	38.9
13	People sending more messages even after saying “Good night”	29.5
14	Frequently-updating timeline	28.2
15	Personal comments in a timeline	24.8
16	Lots of misdirected flames	18.1
17	People waiting for the appropriate moment to send an “今でしょ！” (overused catchphrase) stamp emoticon	16.1
18	People sending lots of stamp emoticons from an animation I don’t really know	15.4
19	People frequently changing their profile picture	14.8
20	People trying to get a laugh from their profile description	14.1