Poll time!

[triskellian]

I'm writing an assignment for my 'Communication and Technology' class, for which I'm doing some research about the use of Livejournal as a social tool (many of my readers will already have heard something about this ;-). I'm writing the whole assignment in public, at metatext, and will eventually submit that community itself for marking, but in the meantime, I need data!

Please fill in the poll, and if you've got any further thoughts or anecdotes to share, please do so in a comment on that post. Everyone is welcome to fill it in, whether I know you or not, whether you're on my flist or not (although I'd be grateful if you'd leave a comment explaining how you found the poll if I don't know you).

The deadline for completing the poll is 6pm BST on Thursday 28 April. The poll is long, but it's split into six separate polls, so you can fill them in separately if time is an issue (although please try to fill in all of them, even if you don't do them all at once).

Bribery: I'll make icons for ten randomly-chosen poll fillers-in.

Edit: OK, one of the questions is radio buttons where it should be ticky boxes. I apparently can't even add a new poll after a post is posted, let alone edit an existing one, so sorry about that, and please use the 'other' option, or a comment to clarify your answer. Ah well. In a poll that length, it was inevitable that something would go wrong :-(

Comments

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

(Already) done ;)

[triskellian]

I saw, thanks! And thanks for pointing out the erroneous radio buttons, which are apparently unfixable :-(

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Is there still a problem, or have you fixed it?

[triskellian]

It's not fixed, but it's explained. Please go ahead and tick boxes!

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Do you want this poll mentioned in other LJs to draw in more punters?

[triskellian]

That would be cool - thank you!

[nixieq.livejournal.com]

ha! i'm highly amused by the fact that, short of your wonderful random gift & my return thank-you gift, you'd be the one exception to my answer to this question:

Of the members of your LJ friends list who you didn't know before LJ, how many have you had some sort of non-internet contact with (eg meeting in person, phoning; sending parcels)?

hee.

[triskellian]

I was indeed thinking of you when I wrote that question :-)

Hmm

[hollywooder.livejournal.com]

I have searched high and low and wide and far but I could not find that thing of your anywhere. I guess you took it off. So my information is probably not necessary. Anyways, my one and only beautiful boots have been taken away by my motherfuckin cousin because he like to play intervention wiht me and often assumes role of disciplinarian even thought really I am happy with my sisters playing the role as they have for the last six months. So he believes that I stole money from my sisters and bought the boots because he refuses to accept the idea that I saved up for them from my job. Screw him. Anyways, this is not probably related to your subject at all but I felt compelled to tell you.

Re: Hmm

[triskellian]

Follow this link for the poll - I'm glad of all the responses I can get.

And I'm sorry to hear about your boots :-(