I need you guys' help! I'm sorry for the long post.
To graduate at my school, you have to take a class called Senior Seminar, where you basically spend the entire semester writing a huge paper and doing research on a subject of your choosing. At the end of the semester, you give a presentation to a bunch of students, parents, professors, and other important people, and take questions on your research. Me being a journalism major, my study had to be related to communications in some manner.
Because of my vast experience with the internet and online relationships, I decided to do my paper on comparing success factors of computer-mediated relationships (CMR, or internet relationships) versus face-to-face relationships.
For my own research, besides studying what others have written, I want to do some in-depth interviews with people who are on both sides of the spectrum. I want to interview 5 people who are or have been in an internet relationship and 5 who are or have been in a face-to-face relationship. Keep in mind, the relationships could have been a failed one. I need people with success and failure stories.
This will not be a survey where I just give you a list of questions. It will be an interview, where I will need to speak to you on AIM, MSN, or less preferably via email or PM on Gateway and get qualitative information to aid me in answering my research questions.
I will not take up a lot of your time when I interview you. I will be prepared with questions to ask and information I need so that it is quick and painless. You will remain anonymous, and will only be referred to by your gender and your age. Even if I am PMing some of you back and forth, I will only be PMing one person at a time so that this remains confidential. I have not yet gathered my thoughts and formed questions, but I'll let you know when I am ready so we can set up a time to speak.
Okay, now if you've read this far and you are willing to participate, please post here or PM me your contact information. The only prejudice I will have in choosing participants is your skill in typing and forming coherent thoughts with your keyboard. I will not to try communicating wit sum1 who iz tping liek tihs cuz itz anoyng nd unprffeshunl.
I really appreciate this ahead of time. You don't know how much you're helping me if you decided to participate.













