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Besides that, a researcher may also be concerned
about the relevance and suitability of the questionnaire to
be administered to the respondents in the future. This is
because how the current respondents perceive the
situation can be profoundly different from how the former
respondents had perceived the same situation in the past.
For example, the establishment of a wide existing social
networking service has made it possible for most of the
current respondents to perceive interpersonal or social
relationships differently from the former respondents in
the past. For example, in the past, people were used to
keeping contact with family members by giving them a
phone call, visiting them at their homes, etc. as a way to
foster a strong family relationship.
On the other hand, in this new age of digitalization,
it has become a norm that nowadays there are so many
modern social networking platforms and apps to enable
