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Researching Internet Vs. IRL Relationships ( )

Postby Angel_Melfina on Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:00 am

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.
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Postby Remæus on Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:03 am

I'm so in.
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Postby Vexar on Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:18 am

Dani, You've got me. I've got both for yah if you need a vs interview ^^
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Postby Kasurin on Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:33 pm

Ooh - me, too.
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Postby Faith on Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:54 pm

._. Lmfao. I'd be glad to help you. I have failed relationships in both aspects including one that began online and went into a face-to-face real relationship.
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I'd be willing to help you out, I suppose.
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Postby Kouketsu on Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:20 pm

I'd love to help. You know how to contact me, MSN preferably.
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Postby Ralana on Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:01 pm

If you still need people I am willing to help out too. :)
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You guys are the greatest. I hope to work on some questions this evening provided I'm not still puking, coughing and gagging all over myself by the time I get settled back at home after work and school today.

Expect contact over the next few days. Hopefully I will have talked to you all by the end of the weekend.

Again, I really appreciate this. :)
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Postby Kasurin on Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:51 pm

Nothing happened! To me. D:
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I know! I'm sowwy. ;_;

I got side tracked with being what felt like deathly ill, trying not to cough up all my organs and such. Being sick really got me behind on all of my research projects for the semester. Hopefully it will be before the weekend. :/
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Postby Smokabowl on Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:58 pm

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