Whathasniff... I'll help.
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*~
Hope that helped.