Thanku so much for all the help!! ^_^

[Cynther]

I'm now working on tabulating results.

I'll be sure to post about findings... I'm certainly clueless right now as to what I'm going to find. The results haven't been anything like what I was expecting... *sweatdrop*

[Leafeh]

*helps*

1. What is your gender?
[x] Female
[ ] Male
[ ] Transgender

2. What age group do you belong to?
[ ] 13 or under
[ ] 14 to 16
[x] 17 to 25
[ ] 26 to 40
[ ] 41 or older

3. Are you involved in any sort of virtual community? (eg: messageboard, MU*, listserve, etc.)
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 7)
[ ] Not sure

3a. What sort of community/ies? Please write names and types of community/ies.
(eg: "The Orchard, a message board; LiveJournal, a journaling community; PernMUSH)

The Orchard, Narutomania, Shadowflight Acres, Oushi Anime, Orange anime and Livejournal

3b. Had you thought of this place as a community before?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

4. Do you roleplay at this place or do you have a 'mule' account (alternate identity)?
[x] Yes, I roleplay (please answer question 4a)
[ ] Yes, I have a mule (please skip to question 5)
[ ] No, I am myself there (please skip to question 5)

4a. Do you have a certain type of characters that you like to play and often portray?
[x] Yes
[ ] No, I play many character types

5. Do other members of the community know your real life name?
[x] Yes, many (more than 10, or all if the community is smaller) of them do
[ ] Yes, a couple do
[ ] It varies by community (some know; some don't)
[ ] No

6. Do friends and family know how much time you spend online at your chosen community/ies?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

6a. Would you be embarassed if people knew how much time you spend online? Or, if people do
know, are you embarassed that they know?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[x] Most people know

7. Do you know anyone involved in an online relationship or who has a significant other they met
online (this includes you)?
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 9)

8. What do you think about using online communities to find romantic relationships?
[x] Positive (it's a good way)
[ ] Neutral (just another dating resource)
[ ] Negative (it's a bad way)

9. Do you know others involved in online communities?
[x] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Not sure

10. What do you think of others involved in online communities? In other words, when you think
generally of people involved in online communities, what is your immediate reaction?
[x] Positive (good way to spend time, enjoyable activity)
[ ] Neutral (something to do)
[ ] Negative (wasting their time, addicted to the computer)

11. About how many hours do you spend using a computer per week? Please only count hours
spent doing online activities, not writing papers or playing games (unless you connect your
game to a server with other players).
[ ] None
[ ] Under 3 hours
[ ] 3 to 7 hours
[ ] 7 to 10 hours
[x] 10 to 20 hours
[ ] More than 20 hours

12. What types of places do you consider to be online communities? Check all that apply.
[x] Messageboards/Forums (Gaia Online; SomethingAwful; etc)
[ ] Listserves
[x] Chat rooms (Excite!; Spinchat; etc)
[ ] MU*s (LambdaMOO; PernMUSH; etc)
[x] Instant Messaging Services (ICQ; AIM; MSN; Yahoo!; etc)
[x] Email
[x] Blogs (LiveJournal; OpenDiary; Blogger; etc)
[x] Art-sharing Sites (Elfwood; DeviantArt; etc)
[x] Role Playing Sites (EverQuest; SIMS Online; etc)
[x] Online Auctioning sites (Ebay; Furbid; etc)
[ ] Other (please write below)
[ ] I don't consider any of these places to be communities

13. If you can think of any, what are benefits and drawbacks you see to online community and "computer mediated" communication?
Benefits: A link to people all across the globe, and being able to talk to someone who you'd never meet in real life, and being able to make friends.

[MadMooCow]

1. What is your gender?
[x] Female
[ ] Male
[ ] Transgender

2. What age group do you belong to?
[ ] 13 or under
[x] 14 to 16
[ ] 17 to 25
[ ] 26 to 40
[ ] 41 or older

3. Are you involved in any sort of virtual community? (eg: messageboard, MU*, listserve, etc.)
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 7)
[ ] Not sure

3a. What sort of community/ies? Please write names and types of community/ies.
(eg: "The Orchard, a message board; LiveJournal, a journaling community; PernMUSH)

The Orchard - message board, Friday the 13th Films - a message board



3b. Had you thought of this place as a community before?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

4. Do you roleplay at this place or do you have a 'mule' account (alternate identity)?
[ ] Yes, I roleplay (please answer question 4a)
[ ] Yes, I have a mule (please skip to question 5)
[x] No, I am myself there (please skip to question 5)

4a. Do you have a certain type of characters that you like to play and often portray?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No, I play many character types

5. Do other members of the community know your real life name?
[ ] Yes, many (more than 10, or all if the community is smaller) of them do
[ ] Yes, a couple do
[x] It varies by community (some know; some don't)
[ ] No

6. Do friends and family know how much time you spend online at your chosen community/ies?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

6a. Would you be embarassed if people knew how much time you spend online? Or, if people do
know, are you embarassed that they know?
[ ] Yes
[x] No
[ ] Most people know

7. Do you know anyone involved in an online relationship or who has a significant other they met
online (this includes you)?
[ ] Yes
[x] No (skip to question 9)

8. What do you think about using online communities to find romantic relationships?
[ ] Positive (it's a good way)
[ ] Neutral (just another dating resource)
[ ] Negative (it's a bad way)

9. Do you know others involved in online communities?
[x] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Not sure

10. What do you think of others involved in online communities? In other words, when you think
generally of people involved in online communities, what is your immediate reaction?
[ ] Positive (good way to spend time, enjoyable activity)
[x] Neutral (something to do)
[ ] Negative (wasting their time, addicted to the computer)

11. About how many hours do you spend using a computer per week? Please only count hours
spent doing online activities, not writing papers or playing games (unless you connect your
game to a server with other players).
[ ] None
[ ] Under 3 hours
[ ] 3 to 7 hours
[x] 7 to 10 hours
[ ] 10 to 20 hours
[ ] More than 20 hours

12. What types of places do you consider to be online communities? Check all that apply.
[x] Messageboards/Forums (Gaia Online; SomethingAwful; etc)
[ ] Listserves
[x] Chat rooms (Excite!; Spinchat; etc)
[ ] MU*s (LambdaMOO; PernMUSH; etc)
[x] Instant Messaging Services (ICQ; AIM; MSN; Yahoo!; etc)
[ ] Email
[x] Blogs (LiveJournal; OpenDiary; Blogger; etc)
[ ] Art-sharing Sites (Elfwood; DeviantArt; etc)
[x] Role Playing Sites (EverQuest; SIMS Online; etc)
[ ] Online Auctioning sites (Ebay; Furbid; etc)
[ ] Other (please write below)
[ ] I don't consider any of these places to be communities

13. If you can think of any, what are benefits and drawbacks you see to online community and "computer mediated" communication?
Benifits: It brings the world and people of different cultures closer together
Drawbacks: Can make people lazy, and reluctant to do any physical activity.

[AirRaiser]

Well duh of corse Im gonna help out *Likes taking surveys*

1. What is your gender?
[X] Female
[ ] Male
[ ] Transgender

2. What age group do you belong to?
[ ] 13 or under
[ ] 14 to 16
[X] 17 to 25
[ ] 26 to 40
[ ] 41 or older

3. Are you involved in any sort of virtual community? (eg: messageboard, MU*, listserve, etc.)
[X] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 7)
[ ] Not sure

3a. What sort of community/ies? Please write names and types of community/ies.
(eg: "The Orchard, a message board; LiveJournal, a journaling community; PernMUSH)
Market(Message Board)
OMB (Message Board)
Live Journal(Online journaling community)
Deviant Art (Art community)

3b. Had you thought of this place as a community before?
[X] Yes
[ ] No

4. Do you roleplay at this place or do you have a 'mule' account (alternate identity)?
[X] Yes, I roleplay (please answer question 4a)
[ ] Yes, I have a mule (please skip to question 5)
[ ] No, I am myself there (please skip to question 5)

4a. Do you have a certain type of characters that you like to play and often portray?
[X] Yes
[ ] No, I play many character types

5. Do other members of the community know your real life name?
[X] Yes, many (more than 10, or all if the community is smaller) of them do
[ ] Yes, a couple do
[ ] It varies by community (some know; some don't)
[ ] No

6. Do friends and family know how much time you spend online at your chosen community/ies?
[ ] Yes
[X No

6a. Would you be embarassed if people knew how much time you spend online? Or, if people do
know, are you embarassed that they know?
[ ] Yes
[X] No
[ ] Most people know

7. Do you know anyone involved in an online relationship or who has a significant other they met
online (this includes you)?
[X] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 9)

8. What do you think about using online communities to find romantic relationships?
[ ] Positive (it's a good way)
[X] Neutral (just another dating resource)
[ ] Negative (it's a bad way)

9. Do you know others involved in online communities?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[X] Not sure

10. What do you think of others involved in online communities? In other words, when you think
generally of people involved in online communities, what is your immediate reaction?
[ ] Positive (good way to spend time, enjoyable activity)
[X] Neutral (something to do)
[ ] Negative (wasting their time, addicted to the computer)

11. About how many hours do you spend using a computer per week? Please only count hours
spent doing online activities, not writing papers or playing games (unless you connect your
game to a server with other players).
[ ] None
[ ] Under 3 hours
[ ] 3 to 7 hours
[X] 7 to 10 hours
[ ] 10 to 20 hours
[ ] More than 20 hours

12. What types of places do you consider to be online communities? Check all that apply.
[X] Messageboards/Forums (Gaia Online; SomethingAwful; etc)
[ ] Listserves
[ ] Chat rooms (Excite!; Spinchat; etc)
[X] MU*s (LambdaMOO; PernMUSH; etc)
[ ] Instant Messaging Services (ICQ; AIM; MSN; Yahoo!; etc)
[ ] Email
[X] Blogs (LiveJournal; OpenDiary; Blogger; etc)
[X] Art-sharing Sites (Elfwood; DeviantArt; etc)
[X] Role Playing Sites (EverQuest; SIMS Online; etc)
[ ] Online Auctioning sites (Ebay; Furbid; etc)
[ ] Other (please write below)
[ ] I don't consider any of these places to be communities




13. If you can think of any, what are benefits and drawbacks you see to online community and "computer mediated" communication? You get to meet new people from all over the place and all around the world, not just whos around in your town.
Draw backs, uh you never know WHO you really are talking to could be some pervert who wants to find all they can about you. God only knows

[Lumi]

1. What is your gender?
[X] Female
[ ] Male
[ ] Transgender

2. What age group do you belong to?
[ ] 13 or under
[ ] 14 to 16
[x] 17 to 25
[ ] 26 to 40
[ ] 41 or older

3. Are you involved in any sort of virtual community? (eg: messageboard, MU*, listserve, etc.)
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 7)
[ ] Not sure

3a. What sort of community/ies? Please write names and types of community/ies.
(eg: "The Orchard, a message board; LiveJournal, a journaling community; PernMUSH)

The Orchard, a messageboard; The IcePlains, a messageboard; Livejournal, journaling community; DeviantArt, an art sharing community;


3b. Had you thought of this place as a community before?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

4. Do you roleplay at this place or do you have a 'mule' account (alternate identity)?
[x] Yes, I roleplay (please answer question 4a)
[ ] Yes, I have a mule (please skip to question 5)
[ ] No, I am myself there (please skip to question 5)

4a. Do you have a certain type of characters that you like to play and often portray?
[x] Yes
[ ] No, I play many character types

5. Do other members of the community know your real life name?
[ ] Yes, many (more than 10, or all if the community is smaller) of them do
[x] Yes, a couple do
[ ] It varies by community (some know; some don't)
[ ] No

6. Do friends and family know how much time you spend online at your chosen community/ies?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

6a. Would you be embarassed if people knew how much time you spend online? Or, if people do
know, are you embarassed that they know?
[ ] Yes
[x] No
[ ] Most people know

7. Do you know anyone involved in an online relationship or who has a significant other they met
online (this includes you)?
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 9)

8. What do you think about using online communities to find romantic relationships?
[x] Positive (it's a good way)
[ ] Neutral (just another dating resource)
[ ] Negative (it's a bad way)

9. Do you know others involved in online communities?
[x] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Not sure

10. What do you think of others involved in online communities? In other words, when you think
generally of people involved in online communities, what is your immediate reaction?
[x] Positive (good way to spend time, enjoyable activity)
[ ] Neutral (something to do)
[ ] Negative (wasting their time, addicted to the computer)

11. About how many hours do you spend using a computer per week? Please only count hours
spent doing online activities, not writing papers or playing games (unless you connect your
game to a server with other players).
[ ] None
[ ] Under 3 hours
[ ] 3 to 7 hours
[ ] 7 to 10 hours
[x] 10 to 20 hours
[ ] More than 20 hours

12. What types of places do you consider to be online communities? Check all that apply.
[x] Messageboards/Forums (Gaia Online; SomethingAwful; etc)
[ ] Listserves
[ ] Chat rooms (Excite!; Spinchat; etc)
[x] MU*s (LambdaMOO; PernMUSH; etc)
[x] Instant Messaging Services (ICQ; AIM; MSN; Yahoo!; etc)
[ ] Email
[x] Blogs (LiveJournal; OpenDiary; Blogger; etc)
[x] Art-sharing Sites (Elfwood; DeviantArt; etc)
[x] Role Playing Sites (EverQuest; SIMS Online; etc)
[x] Online Auctioning sites (Ebay; Furbid; etc)
[ ] Other (please write below)
[ ] I don't consider any of these places to be communities




13. If you can think of any, what are benefits and drawbacks you see to online community and "computer mediated" communication?

benefits: get to experience cultures and people from around the world, can maintain an amount of privacy about your real life, intellectually stimulating, escapism.

drawbacks: not enough physical activity, can lose a grip on reality and place too much importance on the computer activities, cliques tend to pop up, can't know that everyone met is a nice person, or if they're a creep. Parents/family will say get a real life and don't spend so much time online.

[Cynthwork]

Sanku for those who've filled it out...

Also, if people wanted to PM answers because they feel uncomfortable posting, that's perfectly good too.

And, of course, if you just don't want to at all, that's fine as well. Surveys aren't for everyone.

[Aevelyn_LL]

If you guys were ambitious or whatnot, you could even print it out and have your family members fill it out and then PM or email the results to Cynth.

[Silvanon]

1. What is your gender?
[X] Female
[ ] Male
[ ] Transgender

2. What age group do you belong to?
[ ] 13 or under
[ ] 14 to 16
[X] 17 to 25
[ ] 26 to 40
[ ] 41 or older

3. Are you involved in any sort of virtual community? (eg: messageboard, MU*, listserve, etc.)
[X] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 7)
[ ] Not sure

3a. What sort of community/ies? Please write names and types of community/ies.
(eg: "The Orchard, a message board; LiveJournal, a journaling community; PernMUSH)

The Orchard, a message board
LiveJournal, a journaling community
MyFamily.com, an extended family community
Fanfiction.net, a fanfiction community
Elfwood, a fantasy art community

3b. Had you thought of this place as a community before?
[X] Yes
[ ] No

4. Do you roleplay at this place or do you have a 'mule' account (alternate identity)?
[ ] Yes, I roleplay (please answer question 4a)
[ ] Yes, I have a mule (please skip to question 5)
[X] No, I am myself there (please skip to question 5)

4a. Do you have a certain type of characters that you like to play and often portray?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No, I play many character types

5. Do other members of the community know your real life name?
[ ] Yes, many (more than 10, or all if the community is smaller) of them do
[ ] Yes, a couple do
[X] It varies by community (some know; some don't)
[ ] No

6. Do friends and family know how much time you spend online at your chosen community/ies?
[X] Yes
[ ] No

6a. Would you be embarassed if people knew how much time you spend online? Or, if people do
know, are you embarassed that they know?
[ ] Yes
[X] No
[ ] Most people know

7. Do you know anyone involved in an online relationship or who has a significant other they met
online (this includes you)?
[X] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 9)

8. What do you think about using online communities to find romantic relationships?
[ ] Positive (it's a good way)
[X] Neutral (just another dating resource)
[ ] Negative (it's a bad way)

9. Do you know others involved in online communities?
[X] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Not sure

10. What do you think of others involved in online communities? In other words, when you think
generally of people involved in online communities, what is your immediate reaction?
[ ] Positive (good way to spend time, enjoyable activity)
[X] Neutral (something to do)
[ ] Negative (wasting their time, addicted to the computer)

11. About how many hours do you spend using a computer per week? Please only count hours
spent doing online activities, not writing papers or playing games (unless you connect your
game to a server with other players).
[ ] None
[ ] Under 3 hours
[ ] 3 to 7 hours
[ ] 7 to 10 hours
[X] 10 to 20 hours
[ ] More than 20 hours

12. What types of places do you consider to be online communities? Check all that apply.
[X] Messageboards/Forums (Gaia Online; SomethingAwful; etc)
[ ] Listserves
[X] Chat rooms (Excite!; Spinchat; etc)
[X] MU*s (LambdaMOO; PernMUSH; etc)
[ ] Instant Messaging Services (ICQ; AIM; MSN; Yahoo!; etc)
[ ] Email
[X] Blogs (LiveJournal; OpenDiary; Blogger; etc)
[X] Art-sharing Sites (Elfwood; DeviantArt; etc)
[X] Role Playing Sites (EverQuest; SIMS Online; etc)
[X] Online Auctioning sites (Ebay; Furbid; etc)
[ ] Other (please write below)
[ ] I don't consider any of these places to be communities




13. If you can think of any, what are benefits and drawbacks you see to online community and "computer mediated" communication?

Pros are that it's an easy way to meet people, and also allows you to meet people from other places, that you might not otherwise have the opportunity to meet. They're a great way to help shy people make friends, and to get to know people from different culters and ways of life.

Cons are that they can't fulfill all our needs for human interaction, and so can't be the only type of communication we participate in. Also, it's harder to get to know someone online than in person, and there's always the possibility you're being decieved about who someone is.

[SyrSyr]

1. What is your gender?
[x] Female
[ ] Male
[ ] Transgender

2. What age group do you belong to?
[ ] 13 or under
[ ] 14 to 16
[x] 17 to 25
[ ] 26 to 40
[ ] 41 or older

3. Are you involved in any sort of virtual community? (eg: messageboard, MU*, listserve, etc.)
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 7)
[ ] Not sure

3a. What sort of community/ies? Please write names and types of community/ies:
The Orchard (Message Board)
Livejournal (Online Journaling Community)
Duskfalls Glade RP (Message Board RP)
Fanfiction.net (A fanfiction community)
Gaia (Online Role Playing community)
Elfwood (Online Fantasy, Sci Fi, and Fanart Community)


3b. Had you thought of this place as a community before?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

4. Do you roleplay at this place or do you have a 'mule' account (alternate identity)?
[x] Yes, I roleplay (please answer question 4a)
[ ] Yes, I have a mule (please skip to question 5)
[ ] No, I am myself there (please skip to question 5)

4a. Do you have a certain type of characters that you like to play and often portray?
[x ] Yes
[ ] No, I play many character types

5. Do other members of the community know your real life name?
[ ] Yes, many (more than 10, or all if the community is smaller) of them do
[ ] Yes, a couple do
[x ] It varies by community (mostly livejournal people know)
[ ] No

6. Do friends and family know how much time you spend online at your chosen community/ies?
[ x] Yes
[ ] No

6a. Would you be embarassed if people knew how much time you spend online? Or, if people do
know, are you embarassed that they know?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ x] Most people know

7. Do you know anyone involved in an online relationship or who has a significant other they met
online (this includes you)?
[ ] Yes
[ x] No (skip to question 9)

8. What do you think about using online communities to find romantic relationships?
[ ] Positive (it's a good way)
[x] Neutral (just another dating resource)
[ ] Negative (it's a bad way)

9. Do you know others involved in online communities?
[x ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Not sure

10. What do you think of others involved in online communities? In other words, when you think
generally of people involved in online communities, what is your immediate reaction?
[ ] Positive (good way to spend time, enjoyable activity)
[x ] Neutral (something to do)
[ ] Negative (wasting their time, addicted to the computer)

11. About how many hours do you spend using a computer per week? Please only count hours
spent doing online activities, not writing papers or playing games (unless you connect your
game to a server with other players).
[ ] None
[ ] Under 3 hours
[ ] 3 to 7 hours
[x ] 7 to 10 hours
[ ] 10 to 20 hours
[ ] More than 20 hours

12. What types of places do you consider to be online communities? Check all that apply.
[ x] Messageboards/Forums (Gaia Online; SomethingAwful; etc)
[ ] Listserves
[x ] Chat rooms (Excite!; Spinchat; etc)
[ x] MU*s (LambdaMOO; PernMUSH; etc)
[ x] Instant Messaging Services (ICQ; AIM; MSN; Yahoo!; etc)
[ ] Email
[x ] Blogs (LiveJournal; OpenDiary; Blogger; etc)
[x ] Art-sharing Sites (Elfwood; DeviantArt; etc)
[ x] Role Playing Sites (EverQuest; SIMS Online; etc)
[ x] Online Auctioning sites (Ebay; Furbid; etc)
[ ] Other (please write below)
[ ] I don't consider any of these places to be communities

Pros: The internet and most online communication can be very helpful in obtaining information. It allows you to contact many people very quickly if you need information. A survey, for example. XD

Also, it allows you to interact with people who share your interests from across the world. It's a great way to meet casual friends and share your ideas. It's also helpful in aiding creative and personal expression. I'm a lot more vocal and eloquent online than I am in real life. (embarrassed) It's pretty much an easy access to a community of people that you can do about anything with short of physical relationships.

Cons: Communities can be unsafe and sometimes inappropriate. They allow an anonymous contact that requires a certain presence of mind. People can be decieved much easier in online communities.

Online friends often times are not the best of friends in the fact that communication is limited. The social skills you develope online aren't the same as the ones you need in face-to-face contact such as expression, vocalism, and posture.

It's also harder for an online friend to prove their loyality. They won't be standing up against a bully for you any time soon; they can comfort you after but you have no way of knowing if they really care. Thus, you may be forming a complex and hard to manage network of meaningless relationships. That is, spending your energy creating and maintaining a community that's only purpose is to feed you superficial support. Escapism can become a problem. It is important to realize friends, family, and an identity outside of this one.

Especially since in RP communities you often portray someone you are not. Someone you want to be but someone not true to you.

[Cel Theory]

If you still need some...

1. What is your gender?
[x] Female
[ ] Male
[ ] Transgender

2. What age group do you belong to?
[ ] 13 or under
[x] 14 to 16
[ ] 17 to 25
[ ] 26 to 40
[ ] 41 or older

3. Are you involved in any sort of virtual community? (eg: messageboard, MU*, listserve, etc.)
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 7)
[ ] Not sure

3a. What sort of community/ies? Please write names and types of community/ies.
"The Orchard, a message board; LiveJournal, a journaling community; vairous other message boards (some closed); deviantart, an art gallery; Fanfiction.net, a fanfiction community;




3b. Had you thought of this place as a community before?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

4. Do you roleplay at this place or do you have a 'mule' account (alternate identity)?
[ ] Yes, I roleplay (please answer question 4a)
[x] Yes, I have a mule (please skip to question 5) (I think tht's right...)
[ ] No, I am myself there (please skip to question 5)

4a. Do you have a certain type of characters that you like to play and often portray?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No, I play many character types

5. Do other members of the community know your real life name?
[ ] Yes, many (more than 10, or all if the community is smaller) of them do
[ ] Yes, a couple do
[x] It varies by community (some know; some don't)
[ ] No

6. Do friends and family know how much time you spend online at your chosen community/ies?
[ ] Yes
[x] No

6a. Would you be embarassed if people knew how much time you spend online? Or, if people do
know, are you embarassed that they know?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[x] Most people know

7. Do you know anyone involved in an online relationship or who has a significant other they met
online (this includes you)?
[ ] Yes
[x] No (skip to question 9)

8. What do you think about using online communities to find romantic relationships?
[ ] Positive (it's a good way)
[x] Neutral (just another dating resource)
[ ] Negative (it's a bad way)

9. Do you know others involved in online communities?
[x] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Not sure

10. What do you think of others involved in online communities? In other words, when you think
generally of people involved in online communities, what is your immediate reaction?
[x] Positive (good way to spend time, enjoyable activity)
[ ] Neutral (something to do)
[ ] Negative (wasting their time, addicted to the computer)

11. About how many hours do you spend using a computer per week? Please only count hours
spent doing online activities, not writing papers or playing games (unless you connect your
game to a server with other players).
[ ] None
[ ] Under 3 hours
[ ] 3 to 7 hours
[ ] 7 to 10 hours
[x] 10 to 20 hours
[ ] More than 20 hours

12. What types of places do you consider to be online communities? Check all that apply.
[x] Messageboards/Forums (Gaia Online; SomethingAwful; etc)
[ ] Listserves
[ ] Chat rooms (Excite!; Spinchat; etc)
[ ] MU*s (LambdaMOO; PernMUSH; etc)
[ ] Instant Messaging Services (ICQ; AIM; MSN; Yahoo!; etc)
[x] Email
[x] Blogs (LiveJournal; OpenDiary; Blogger; etc)
[x] Art-sharing Sites (Elfwood; DeviantArt; etc)
[x] Role Playing Sites (EverQuest; SIMS Online; etc)
[x] Online Auctioning sites (Ebay; Furbid; etc)
[x] Other (please write below)
[ ] I don't consider any of these places to be communities

Other : Role playig forums




13. If you can think of any, what are benefits and drawbacks you see to online community and "computer mediated" communication?

Hard to get enoguh comfort; people judge on personality, not looks or something shallow.

[Aevelyn_LL]

wow, thankies to everyone for filling this out and helping Cynth. *snug-squishes Cynth and runs off cackling*

[Old Storm SilverWolf]

Whathasniff... I'll help.

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1. What is your gender?
[x] Female
[ ] Male
[ ] Transgender

2. What age group do you belong to?
[ ] 13 or under
[ ] 14 to 16
[ ] 17 to 25
[x] 26 to 40
[ ] 41 or older

3. Are you involved in any sort of virtual community? (eg: messageboard, MU*, listserve, etc.)
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 7)
[ ] Not sure

3a. What sort of community/ies? Please write names and types of community/ies.
(eg: "The Orchard, a message board; LiveJournal, a journaling community; PernMUSH)

Orchard, SG'M mb, Academy of Ev'ryarts-Mbs
LiveJournal, Bravenet- online/web journals
Gaia- no clue what it would be considered
Neopets, Powerpets- online critter communities
Shivuez Market- Mb

3b. Had you thought of this place as a community before?
[x] Yes
[x] No

4. Do you roleplay at this place or do you have a 'mule' account (alternate identity)?
[ ] Yes, I roleplay (please answer question 4a)
[ ] Yes, I have a mule (please skip to question 5)
[ ] No, I am myself there (please skip to question 5)
[x] I am myself a character

4a. Do you have a certain type of characters that you like to play and often portray?
[x] Yes
[ ] No, I play many character types

5. Do other members of the community know your real life name?
[ ] Yes, many (more than 10, or all if the community is smaller) of them do
[ ] Yes, a couple do
[x] It varies by community (some know; some don't)
[ ] No

6. Do friends and family know how much time you spend online at your chosen community/ies?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

6a. Would you be embarassed if people knew how much time you spend online? Or, if people do
know, are you embarassed that they know?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[x] Most people know

7. Do you know anyone involved in an online relationship or who has a significant other they met
online (this includes you)?
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 9)

8. What do you think about using online communities to find romantic relationships?
[ ] Positive (it's a good way)
[x] Neutral (just another dating resource)
[ ] Negative (it's a bad way)

9. Do you know others involved in online communities?
[x] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Not sure

10. What do you think of others involved in online communities? In other words, when you think
generally of people involved in online communities, what is your immediate reaction?
[ ] Positive (good way to spend time, enjoyable activity)
[x] Neutral (something to do)
[ ] Negative (wasting their time, addicted to the computer)

11. About how many hours do you spend using a computer per week? Please only count hours
spent doing online activities, not writing papers or playing games (unless you connect your
game to a server with other players).
[ ] None
[ ] Under 3 hours
[ ] 3 to 7 hours
[ ] 7 to 10 hours
[ ] 10 to 20 hours
[x] More than 20 hours

12. What types of places do you consider to be online communities? Check all that apply.
[x] Messageboards/Forums (Gaia Online; SomethingAwful; etc)
[ ] Listserves
[x] Chat rooms (Excite!; Spinchat; etc)
[ ] MU*s (LambdaMOO; PernMUSH; etc)
[ ] Instant Messaging Services (ICQ; AIM; MSN; Yahoo!; etc)
[ ] Email
[x] Blogs (LiveJournal; OpenDiary; Blogger; etc)
[x] Art-sharing Sites (Elfwood; DeviantArt; etc)
[x] Role Playing Sites (EverQuest; SIMS Online; etc)
[ ] Online Auctioning sites (Ebay; Furbid; etc)
[ ] Other (please write below)
[ ] I don't consider any of these places to be communities




13. If you can think of any, what are benefits and drawbacks you see to online community and "computer mediated" communication?

Benefits-

• Some pseudo-hume contact
  
• learning new things ~like how to call your comp a piece of *BLEEP!!* in Japanese/Swedish!~
  
• improving your mental focus ~Namely trying to focus on Why you drew/built so many things you can never get finished... *stares at half done site* heh~
  
• improve typing/web building skills ~And Cussing skills an added bonus!~
  
• in some cases can be used on your resume to beef up some spots that may be lacking ~"Erm, yes Mr. Kussfart, I am capable of working with JAVA/PERL/SCHNIZZBLAT script... In fact I've been working with them extensively in my free time." Do Not mention time was spent trying to get around no-right-clicking/trying to figure out Why the bloody popup keeps crashing your comp when you were Sure you removed Geo's little ad embed from your free site!~
  
• learn new technologies... ~such as the fact that a comp bought on Monday will be obselete by Wednesday.... If you're lucky it's not sooner.~

Drawbacks-

• Poor posture *stretches achy back*
  
• shortened attention span ~now Why was I here again?~
  
• forgetting things like the fact that what happens online is no more "REality" than what happens on 'Days of Our Lives' ~Hey does anybody know what happened with Sammy & Lucas? I so haven't seen it in ages!*whines*~

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Hope that helped.

[Saturnalia]

1. What is your gender?
[x] Female
[ ] Male
[ ] Transgender

2. What age group do you belong to?
[ ] 13 or under
[ ] 14 to 16
[x] 17 to 25
[ ] 26 to 40
[ ] 41 or older

3. Are you involved in any sort of virtual community? (eg: messageboard, MU*, listserve, etc.)
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 7)
[ ] Not sure

3a. What sort of community/ies? Please write names and types of community/ies.
(eg: "The Orchard, a message board; LiveJournal, a journaling community; PernMUSH)

Orchard Messagepost (message board)
Livejournal (journal community)
Dragonfist Knights (EverQuest related message board)
EverQuest I & II (Online MMORPG, if that counts)
Neopets (if that counts as anything)



3b. Had you thought of this place as a community before?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

4. Do you roleplay at this place or do you have a 'mule' account (alternate identity)?
[x] Yes, I roleplay (please answer question 4a)
[ ] Yes, I have a mule (please skip to question 5)
[ ] No, I am myself there (please skip to question 5)

4a. Do you have a certain type of characters that you like to play and often portray?
[ ] Yes
[x] No, I play many character types

5. Do other members of the community know your real life name?
[ ] Yes, many (more than 10, or all if the community is smaller) of them do
[x] Yes, a couple do
[ ] It varies by community (some know; some don't)
[ ] No

6. Do friends and family know how much time you spend online at your chosen community/ies?
[x] Yes
[ ] No

6a. Would you be embarassed if people knew how much time you spend online? Or, if people do
know, are you embarassed that they know?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[x] Most people know

7. Do you know anyone involved in an online relationship or who has a significant other they met
online (this includes you)?
[x] Yes
[ ] No (skip to question 9)

8. What do you think about using online communities to find romantic relationships?
[ ] Positive (it's a good way)
[x] Neutral (just another dating resource)
[ ] Negative (it's a bad way)

9. Do you know others involved in online communities?
[x] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Not sure

10. What do you think of others involved in online communities? In other words, when you think
generally of people involved in online communities, what is your immediate reaction?
[x] Positive (good way to spend time, enjoyable activity)
[ ] Neutral (something to do)
[ ] Negative (wasting their time, addicted to the computer)

11. About how many hours do you spend using a computer per week? Please only count hours
spent doing online activities, not writing papers or playing games (unless you connect your
game to a server with other players).
[ ] None
[ ] Under 3 hours
[ ] 3 to 7 hours
[ ] 7 to 10 hours
[ ] 10 to 20 hours
[x] More than 20 hours

12. What types of places do you consider to be online communities? Check all that apply.
[x] Messageboards/Forums (Gaia Online; SomethingAwful; etc)
[x] Listserves
[x] Chat rooms (Excite!; Spinchat; etc)
[x] MU*s (LambdaMOO; PernMUSH; etc)
[ ] Instant Messaging Services (ICQ; AIM; MSN; Yahoo!; etc)
[ ] Email
[x] Blogs (LiveJournal; OpenDiary; Blogger; etc)
[x] Art-sharing Sites (Elfwood; DeviantArt; etc)
[x] Role Playing Sites (EverQuest; SIMS Online; etc)
[x] Online Auctioning sites (Ebay; Furbid; etc)
[ ] Other (please write below)
[ ] I don't consider any of these places to be communities




13. If you can think of any, what are benefits and drawbacks you see to online community and "computer mediated" communication?

Another way to meet people that could potentially end up being really good friends
However, it uh, distracts me from things like the biology I should be studying right now...

[Cynther]

Thank you so, so very much to everyone who has taken time out of their schedules just to fill out a survey for someone who hasn't even been participating in the community lately.

To me, this really shows that internet communities can be like real communities, and I plan on including a note of this in my final paper.

No one will ever know just how grateful I am to everyone... because without these answers and the support you've given me by filling them out and sharing with me... I wouldn't be able to graduate.

This is for my "capstone", the last thing I need to complete my sociology degree. Again, thank you SO much, everyone.

Silvanon, out of concern for everyone, please delete this thread if you can... I think that would be best. *nodnods*

Also, I promise that I will fill everyone in on any findings... so far, I have no idea what may come of this as the answers aren't correlating with my hypotheses at all! (LOL)

[Lumi]

^_^ Happy to help you out Cynther. Good luck!