Questionairre for an experiment

[qualy]

I wasn't sure where to post this, so I figured this would be the most appropriate forum. I know it's been a long time and nobody here knows me anymore, but please refrain from flaming and whatnot. :P

I have an anonymous questionairre for a science project that I need to do. It pertains to how you act on the Internet in comparison to real life.

Please email me your answers at qualy66@yahoo.com and keep it anonymous, unless you really want to let me know who you are. :P

1.Which community did you find this questionairre?

2. How many communitites do you take an active part in?

3. If more than one community, do you act differently in them? If so, how?

4. How do you act on the Internet in comparison to how you do in real life?

5. Do you more actively participate in forums, chatrooms, or other?

6. Is there any part of yourself that you have adapted to or dropped from your real life because of something you found about yourself on the Internet?

Thanks!

[mead1]

1. FlashFlashRevolution

2. Just FFR

3. N/A

4. I used to, but now it's pretty much the same thing

5. Forums

6. Well, I was a lot quieter in life before I became active on FFR.

[ad0gg]

Hey qualy, I still remember you.

1. Flash Flash Revolution
2. 2
3. No, I act the same.
4. More serious, if anything.
5. Forums
6. Yeah, I'm kind of more outgoing now than I was before I started visiting forums.

[-Fallen-]

1. FFR

2. 3

3. No

4. Nothing like I am in real life

5. Forums

6. No

[GuidoHunter]

Who could forget you, qualy? You're born to frag.

And I know you said email, but I don't care about anonymity and this should work just as well, too, right?

1.Which community did you find this questionairre? FFR

2. How many communitites do you take an active part in? Three. FFR, a0, and daysofwonder.com

3. If more than one community, do you act differently in them? If so, how? Yes. DoW is a boardgaming site with an average user age a little above thirty with more Europeans than Americans, so I avoid internet slang/humor and any other immature behavior. a0 is just a bunch of kids who think they know everything, so I try to stay out of anything there, and at FFR I'm most like myself. EDIT: I also don't spam my website after signing my posts on DoW.

4. How do you act on the Internet in comparison to how you do in real life? As far as my behavior, it isn't very different. There's just different things to talk about going from real life to online.

5. Do you more actively participate in forums, chatrooms, or other? A little more forums than chat rooms (I'm in the Ticket to Ride chat room a LOT)

6. Is there any part of yourself that you have adapted to or dropped from your real life because of something you found about yourself on the Internet? Nope.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[dooty_7]

FFR
only one
n.a
slightly more explosive and if someone bugs me i let them know without hesitation
only a few forums ever but just this one right now
nope

[Blasian]

1.Flash Flash Freaking REvolution

2. Around 6, maybe.

3. Nope. There's no point in acting differen'tly. I act how i always do.

4. Almost the same, except i can be more honest and speak my mind more than i do in reality.

5. Forums and Chatrooms.

6. No....

[MrGiggles]

1.Flash Flash Revolution.

2. 3

3. Yeah, I'm a lot more cautious about what I post here, I get the feeling there are a bunch of people just waiting for an excuse to flame me, so I try to avoid being retarded. At Press Start to Play, I'm pretty much an off-topic, annoying poster. No one seems to care, since the forums are pretty new. I'll probably act more mature as less spammers and more serious posters enter the site. At VGCats, I can't really say how I post. It depends on my mood.

4. Rofl, you people would think I'm psychotic in real life. I'm totally crazy, and I love making my friends laugh.

5. Forums, chats don't work.

6. I don't think so.... So no.

[Snapps]

Email the answers guys, rofl.

And Qualy, I remember you. I wondered where you went

[MrGiggles]

Originally Posted by Snapps

Email the answers guys, rofl.

I was going to say that, but then I said, "meh, I don't care either."
I do it cause I can.

[whiteflame]

1.Which community did you find this questionairre? FFR

2. How many communitites do you take an active part in? 5 (2 in which im a admin/forum admin. *gasp*)

3. If more than one community, do you act differently in them? If so, how? Yea, i'm nicer and alot more serious.

4. How do you act on the Internet in comparison to how you do in real life? Here im more relaxed and don't care about what 99% of the people here say because most of them know nothing about anything, by which I mean is they may know about certain internet things but aside from that [most] know nothing.

5. Do you more actively participate in forums, chatrooms, or other? Neither im active in both equally.

6. Is there any part of yourself that you have adapted to or dropped from your real life because of something you found about yourself on the Internet? Yea.

[hiyasucka]

1. FFR
2. 3
3. No
4. Same, except on the internet I talk less because it's more effort
5. Forums
6. No

[Afrobean]

• 1. Which community did you find this questionairre?

FFR.

• 2. How many communitites do you take an active part in?

I suppose 2.

• 3. If more than one community, do you act differently in them? If so, how?

No. At least, I don't think I do.

• 4. How do you act on the Internet in comparison to how you do in real life?

Pretty much the same. I used to be more mellow in real life, but being on the Internet has made me feel more comfortable with myself in real life.

• 5. Do you more actively participate in forums, chatrooms, or other?

I'm not a fan of chatrooms. Forums are my bag.

• 6. Is there any part of yourself that you have adapted to or dropped from your real life because of something you found about yourself on the Internet?

Like I said above, I used to be more mellow, but I am now my true self since I feel more comfortable.

[GuidoHunter]

Originally Posted by Snapps

Email the answers guys, rofl.

And Qualy, I remember you. I wondered where you went

Originally Posted by GuidoHunter

Who could forget you, qualy? You're born to frag.

And I know you said email, but I don't care about anonymity and this should work just as well, too, right?

The only reason to email instead of post is if he won't ever come back here.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[jewpinthethird]

Originally Posted by qualy

1.Which community did you find this questionairre?

The FlashFlashRevolution Forums.

2. How many communitites do you take an active part in?

As of now, just one.

3. If more than one community, do you act differently in them? If so, how?

N/A

4. How do you act on the Internet in comparison to how you do in real life?

In real life I am rather shy and quite around strangers/people I dont know. Which is probably how I seem to act around most people except for friends and family. On the internet, I'm am much like how I act around my friends...only on the forums I have time to think before I make comments, so they usually tend to have more content.

5. Do you more actively participate in forums, chatrooms, or other?

Forums.

6. Is there any part of yourself that you have adapted to or dropped from your real life because of something you found about yourself on the Internet?

No. That's stupid.

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by jewpinthethird

No. That's stupid.

How can you say that when you admitted yourself that you're shy around people you don't know in real life. You have no problem saying things among many, many, people you don't really know on the forums. This would be an excellent skill to have in real life.

[qualy]

Originally Posted by GuidoHunter

The only reason to email instead of post is if he won't ever come back here.

Nah, I'm here till I'm done with it.

As for one of the other above comments, it's not really all that stupid. There are a few studies that show that many people at least act differently on the internet, if not adapting something to their real life. It might seem like it may be stupid or dumb, but it happens to people, whether you accept it or not.

[ghost_of_eb]

In case you didn't notice, qualy, it's me, eb. ;D

• 1. Which community did you find this questionairre?

www.flashflashrevolution.com

• 2. How many communitites do you take an active part in?

Uh, if you count MS, then 2.

• 3. If more than one community, do you act differently in them? If so, how?

Kinda. I mean, it's hard to compare. In MS I'm playing a game with a community of people and there's different kinds of interactions. But I guess I'm about the same. I try to be helpful to people on the forums, and I'm quite helpful inside of MS, so I guess I'm still the same, basically.

• 4. How do you act on the Internet in comparison to how you do in real life?

I actually communicate on the internet. I'm shy as hell in person until I get to know you. Once I'm friendly with a person, though, I don't hold back and I'm pretty much the same. The only real difference is that I can't make a face like ^______^ in person.

• 5. Do you more actively participate in forums, chatrooms, or other?

Forums and AIM. Chatrooms are too fast with too much going on and too many people usually. AIM is fast, but one on one so I can more easily keep my train of thought. Forums have tons of people, but it's slow enough that it's easy to keep up with. Chatrooms are just....too much. x__x

• 6. Is there any part of yourself that you have adapted to or dropped from your real life because of something you found about yourself on the Internet?

I dunno, my internet self and IRL self kinda mix constantly, so I'm not quite sure what is influencing what. I mean, if I offend a friend in person I will probably start being nicer over the internet to people I've been a little hard on, but at the same time, I've caught myself rofl'ing in person (and I mean something was funny, and while laughing I instinctively said roffle without thinking about it....that was kinda scary) and I use internet humor with friends who understand it. Overall, I would say that the internet has had an effect, but not anything drastic.

[jewpinthethird]

Originally Posted by Afrobean

How can you say that when you admitted yourself that you're shy around people you don't know in real life. You have no problem saying things among many, many, people you don't really know on the forums. This would be an excellent skill to have in real life.

I was in part joking. Also, I have not changed in my non-internet related life based on what I have experienced in the forums. Yeah, it'd be a great skill, but I havent used such a skill in real life...so the answer is still no.

[lord_carbo]

1. Flash Flash Revolution forums

2. 7 =/

3. Yes because two of them have people I know from a whiiiile ago And another has people who are just really friendly all around. I mean it's almost like a perfect community. And it even has 1,000 members. It's pretty nice.

4. Haha, about the same.

5. Forums forums forums!

6. Nope