Poll time!

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 :-(