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I need ten people to fill this out. If you could help and pass this on, I'd REALLY appreciate it (I'll feature your work in my next journal!!!)
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(Please be as detailed as possible!!! Submit in comments.)
1. How often do you use the internet and what do you use it for?
2. Who do you communicate with online; what sort of online relationships have you established? (Romantic, friendships, family. This can be both in real life and online.)
3. Do you feel more or less connected to people when using online communication (blogging, texting, facebook, myspace, dA. Please be detailed.)
4. How well do you believe you know strictly online friends or romantic partners? How does the internet hinder and help your relationships?
5. Do you feel you express your emotions better via text, instant messaging, and email or phone and face-to-face conversation? How do you communicate differently online verses real life?
6. Do you feel you present "the real you" better in person or online? How much information do you divulge to the internet (blogs, social networking) and how much to real life (conversations, meetings, appearance)?
7. Is there anything you would like to add about self-perception, online communication v. real life communication, and online relationships?
8. How much time do you spend on deviantArt? Do you feel you express yourself better in your art and opinions on dA than real life?
Please include:
Age:
Relationship status: married/single/seeing someone
Region:
THANK YOU AGAIN!
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Age: 23
Relationship status: seeing someone
Region: north eastern USA
Maybe 3-4 times a week, mostly to check myspace and dA and play online games, but sometimes to do homework.
2. Who do you communicate with online; what sort of online relationships have you established? (Romantic, friendships, family. This can be both in real life and online.)
Sometimes I talk to friends, but mostly I talk to people I've never met before, and it' usually art or music related.
3. Do you feel more or less connected to people when using online communication (blogging, texting, facebook, myspace, dA. Please be detailed.)
I think it's about the same. I'm generally just not very close or "connected" with other human beings.
4. How well do you believe you know strictly online friends or romantic partners? How does the internet hinder and help your relationships?
I know them well enough to talk to them online, but beyond that, I probably don't know very much about them at all, which is why I don't seek online romantic relationships.
5. Do you feel you express your emotions better via text, instant messaging, and email or phone and face-to-face conversation? How do you communicate differently online verses real life?
I express my emotions best in person. I very rarely express my emotions at all using the phone or email. When I am online I try to avoid personal issues, especially since the only people I would ever need to discuss those things with I could easily see in person before I even got around to emailing them.
6. Do you feel you present "the real you" better in person or online? How much information do you divulge to the internet (blogs, social networking) and how much to real life (conversations, meetings, appearance)?
The real me is present more in person. I think the best example of that would be that most of what makes me a funny person is the tone of voice I use when I say things and the weird noises I make, which don't come across when I'm typing. I almost never give any personal info about my life online. (Mostly because I've been stalked before, and I don't want certain people knowing what I do or where I am on a daily basis.) Sometimes I'll write blogs that prompt close friends of mine to ask me what's going on, but they're always very vague.
7. Is there anything you would like to add about self-perception, online communication v. real life communication, and online relationships?
Self perception is a tricky thing. I think it's difficult to compare online self perception to "real life" self perception without considering that there are so many situations in real life and that one's own self perception changes with those situations. We reveal different parts of ourselves and our lives in different places and around different people, not to mention the huge difference between who you are when you're alone and who you are when others are around. We are so many things, and most of those things are true. We are so complex that we have many "true selves", and probably a couple fake selves.
8. How much time do you spend on deviantArt? Do you feel you express yourself better in your art and opinions on dA than real life?
I spend about an hour a week on dA. I express myself best through my artwork, but not specifically on dA, since I'm an artist even when I'm not online. However, sometimes I find myself at a loss for words when I'm talking about my opinions about art or trying to critique, and when given extra time, I can collect my thoughts better. Since their is less time for me to think during an in person critique (and perhaps because I don't have to look at the artist whose feelings might get hurt), it's easier for my to express my opinions about art here on dA.
I use the internet everyday. Mostly I come onto deviantART, facebook, and check my email. I also use instant messenger and use the internet primarily for networking. I also have my own website that I work on.
2. Who do you communicate with online; what sort of online relationships have you established? (Romantic, friendships, family. This can be both in real life and online.)
I keep in touch with my family and friends over the internet. I've never had a completely online "romantic relationship"; if I talk to anyone romantically, I know them in person.
3. Do you feel more or less connected to people when using online communication (blogging, texting, facebook, myspace, dA. Please be detailed.)
Depending on the website, more connected. Facebook and dA make me feel more connected, but using my personal blog sometimes leaves me feeling less connected, just because I am unsure as to how many people actually see/read it.
4. How well do you believe you know strictly online friends or romantic partners? How does the internet hinder and help your relationships?
I feel that I know my online friends fairly well. My romantic partners are never strictly online relationships, as in I do not meet people over the internet and have a relationship with them. But the friendships I have formed are fairly good ones.
5. Do you feel you express your emotions better via text, instant messaging, and email or phone and face-to-face conversation? How do you communicate differently online verses real life?
Sometimes I feel that it is easier to communicate over the internet or text messaging because serious confrontations become easier when you aren't face-to-face with the other person. I do prefer face-to-face and phone conversations more though, because it feels more real and is often more social.
6. Do you feel you present "the real you" better in person or online? How much information do you divulge to the internet (blogs, social networking) and how much to real life (conversations, meetings, appearance)?
I am completely myself in real life. I feel that I present myself better in that context because it is more natural, and has less room to "lie" about personality, appearance, etc. I tell some basic things about myself on the internet before I get to know someone; then I may divulge more information as to who I am, but in real-life, things are much easier to convey about myself.
7. Is there anything you would like to add about self-perception, online communication v. real life communication, and online relationships?
I think I've described everything I think pretty well in the previous answers.
8. How much time do you spend on deviantArt? Do you feel you express yourself better in your art and opinions on dA than real life?
I spend A LOT of time on deviantART, because I love this community, and I feel at home with many of the other deviants here. I feel that my art definitely expresses who I am, therefore letting my opinions come out easily. I believe that dA and real-life are pretty parallel in terms of how I express myself.
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Age: 18
Relationship status: Single
Region: Christian
Hope this helps!
*Ancient-Hoofbeats