Once again I have Colette to thank for this thing o' the day. This time I actually had something planned and ready to go, but I thought this thing might be a bit time sensitive so I went with it. I completed a survey on blogging for a university research project. I will agree with Colette and say that the aim of this project seems to be to establish bloggers as a group of social misfits. Which...seems extremely short sighted when one considers that there are *so* many bloggers these days - from all walks of life and all around the world. We can't all be weirdos [I am, but that is besides the point].
I have participated in a research study for my university before [this was for an American university]. It was for my psychology class and it earned me extra credit so I was able to graduate with a solid C average [yes, my parents were so proud]. I was selected to participate because I was ranked as a raging narcissist. Yeah [again, my parents were so proud]. But - back to this study...yeah, it kinda was an unfair characterization of bloggers. That we all have no friends in real life or perhaps we do, but we have created something entirely new for ourselves online - a new identity, life, focus...and that we lie and hide things about ourselves or present a cleaned up version. I'm not entirely sure that having such obvious questions will get you the answers you are after...due to the fact that people don't like admitting they are losers [even anonymously]. Okay, I fully admit it - I'm a big loser - deal with it.
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I know! I still can't believe how obvious the questions were ... unless they were actually after something else, and those questions were red herrings to divert us from the real focus of the survey.
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