The Myspace Experiment

[Vash]

Hello everyone, I am conducting an experiment (as part of my course), to find out if "real life relationships are influenced by online social mediums".

I hope you can spare the time to fill out my questionnaire and thus help me analyse whether real-life friendships might be influenced by online friend ratings on a social network such as myspace.


Empirical Research Questionnaire

Please select your response in the following situations:

1.  Your best friend moved you from first position in their myspace friends list to 5th position do you:
A:  (Angry) Call them up straight away and demand an explanation
B:  (Upset) Ask them about it once you see them in person
C:  (Annoyed) Bring it up casually when you next see them
D:  (Concerned) Comment them in myspace and ask them about it
E:  (Unperturbed) Not discuss it with them

2.  Your 2nd best friend moved you from second position in their myspace friends list to 8th position do you: 
A:  (Angry) Call them up straight away and demand an explanation
B:  (Upset) Ask them about it once you see them in person
C:  (Annoyed) Bring it up casually when you next see them
D:  (Concerned) Comment them in myspace and ask them about it
E:  (Unperturbed) Not discuss it with them

3.  A friend moves you from fifth position, to out of there top myspace friends list do you: 
A:  (Angry) Call them up straight away and demand an explanation
B:  (Upset) Ask them about it once you see them in person
C:  (Annoyed) Bring it up casually when you next see them
D:  (Concerned) Comment them in myspace and ask them about it
E:  (Unperturbed) Not discuss it with them

4.  Someone you hang around with at school/higher education deletes you from there myspace friends list do you: 
A:  (Angry) Call them up straight away and demand an explanation
B:  (Upset) Ask them about it once you see them in person
C:  (Annoyed) Bring it up casually when you next see them
D:  (Concerned) Comment them in myspace and ask them about it
E:  (Unperturbed) Not discuss it with them

5.  Someone you met at a party the other night and spoke with briefly adds you to myspace and then deletes you the next day: 
A:  (Angry) Call them up straight away and demand an explanation
B:  (Upset) Ask them about it once you see them in person
C:  (Annoyed) Bring it up casually when you next see them
D:  (Concerned) Comment them in myspace and ask them about it
E:  (Unperturbed) Not discuss it with them

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Please comment your answers or send them to daves_era_assignment@hotmail.com

Thankyou for your time and if anyone is interested I will happily place the final results of this experiment once it has concluded for discussion, dave

[MrColossal]

Hello, did you sign up just to post this? Do you know what AGS is? It's hard not to consider this spam considering this site has nothing to do with myspace at all.. I mean, at least you posted in the correct forum! But single poster out of the blue raises a red flag for a mod. Respond here or in PM please.

[Evil]

1. Don't care.
2. Don't care.
3. Don't care.
4. Don't care.
5. Don't care.

And why even bother signing up. Nobody here is a teeny-bopper.

[Vash]

This happens to be one of the sites I frequent most. My favorite AGS games are the Kings Quest remakes by AGI, 5 days a stranger, tale of two kingdoms and I am looking forward to the Doctor Who adventure currently being created by duckbutcher....

I have alot of respect for the people who contribute, monitor and post at this site, I had believed that I may be able to gain some intellgent responses here.

dave

PS: My post has in no way broken the rules of this forum, I am not spamming this is a legitamite study, if you have no interest please refain from posting.

PSS: Mouthuvmine, I appreciate your support and thankyou for helping out

[mouthuvmine]

Okay, first off, 1:E 2:E 3:E 4:E 5:C.

You don't have to be a "teeny bopper" to have different priorities. And I can really see someone spending a lot of time here and feeling comfortable enough, even having not posted before, to put your survey thingy up here. I'm on this forum daily, many times a day actually, without posting.

And like Mr Colossal said : at least you're in the right forum! Some people seem to have been here forever and mess that up.

Eric

[Nine Toes]

There should be a sixth option for each of these:

F:  (Apathetic) Life is too short to let something so trivial bother you in any way.

That would be my answer for all of them.

[MrColossal]

I didn't mean to put you off but you must agree, a first post that makes no reference to the forum subject, appears to be a form letter and the poster in no way introduces themselves and states that they are indeed a silent AGSer just makes it all suspect.

Thanks for replying but I would agree that this might not be the best place to ask because people are [I think/hope] a little too old for MySpace drama, but I could be wrong! I guess we'll find out 2 things about this study!

Eric

[mouthuvmine]

I got all ready post a what-the-hell sort of reply when I saw "Eric" at the bottom of your reply, completely forgetting that it 's your name too. Haha. I guess I didn't get the copyright on it quickly enough

[EDIT] ...Eric

[Vash]

No problem, Mr Colossal. I understand that this site is about celebrating amateur game making and classic games, but its one of the sites I visit and as a result I thought I would post my survey here.

I didn't even know about the myspace phenomenon until recently (I don't always keep up with the times), but when I discovered it I thought it might make an interesting subject for study.  I hope some of the people on this site decide to contribute, but as you say I may have chosen the wrong place - dave

[Nikolas]

I actually loath myspace and the rest.

I will admit that I have a linkedit and a facebook account, both of them almost innactive. People (who I know actually) keen trying to add me, and I do add them, but that's about it. I remember posting once in a wall of a friend in facebook and that's about it.

I somehow don't find any joy to that and I can socialize fine without such sites. As a professional trying to make connections I usually laugh at those who try and willingly enter the domain of soundclick/myspace/acidplanet/etc since they enter a competition of 5,000,000 same/simmilar users.

Anyways, rant over. It could be that I'm turning too old as well, who knows...

[Radiant]

I probably wouldn't notice any of those things, and wouldn't care if I did.

[Stupot]

Well technically, isn't there a rule that says you have to have contributed to at least one finished game before being allowed to post on the general forum?

Ooops, might have just put my own foot in it there... 

Any Vash, here are my answers:

1) E. Unperterbed, but I might bring it up with them as a Joke and out of curiosity.
2) E. It really wouldn't bother me.
3) E. Again, it really wouldn't bother me.
4) E. I don't even know what TAFE is...
5) C. I would be interested to know why (especially if it was a nice girl), but not too bothered.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I think any system (be it online or whatever) that encourages people to publicly classify their level of friendship with other people is an inherently flawed and potentially destructive one.  Feelings will undoubtedly be hurt, whether the friend cares to admit it or not, and there's really nothing to be gained by such a 'feature'.  It seems that most of myspace and its clones are simply dedicated to both the childish and banal rather than to anything actually uplifting or useful.

The AGS forums are clearly superior due to our group hugs and vigorous back-pattings!

[Stupot]

I second that.
I vowed not to bother making an top 8 on MySpace, but I did anyway out of boredom once... but I never change it even though theres one or two people on there I hardly ever speak to any more.  I don't change it, and I lie saying that I never chose a top 8 in the first place.  Simply to avoid any upsets.

[Darth Mandarb]

I use mySpace all the time to troll for 13 year old girls posting slutty pictures of themselves!!

[GarageGothic]

I think any system (be it online or whatever) that encourages people to publicly classify their level of friendship with other people is an inherently flawed and potentially destructive one. [...] The AGS forums are clearly superior due to our group hugs and vigorous back-pattings!

You mean that I'm the only one who puts you and LimpingFish on my list of "Bad boys who won't get the Shadowplay demo for Christmas" when you say nasty things about GK3?

[Snake]

I don't like these "questionair" thingies very much so I won't respond to that - just hate answering a bunch of questions.

But I will respond to the Myspace "drama" and being too old thing.
I'm 25. I recently joined Myspace just for the hell of it, post pictures, plug Leitor's Edge slightly and to see if any of my friends from school use it. Come to find out quite a few do. I've added them or out of the blue some would find me - it's pretty cool to talk to them again.

I also joined the Myspace music portion of it just to upload a few of my songs to get a little feedback, which I haven't had much, lol. Guess I really suck

But no, I don't think that you can be too old for it, since I joined it just to see what it was like. I'm actually not on it much, only to check if a couple of friends had written to me.


--Snake

[Stupot]

Facebook is good for catching up with old school chums... and the good thing is you don't get random invitations from shit bands every other day, unlike MySpace.  But I only use Facebook for their Scrabble and Poker applications.

[Nightfable]

I'll answer!! 

1.  Your best friend moved you from first position in their myspace friends list to 5th position do you:
A:  (Angry) Call them up straight away and demand an explanation
B:  (Upset) Ask them about it once you see them in person
C:  (Annoyed) Bring it up casually when you next see them
D:  (Concerned) Comment them in myspace and ask them about it I probably would do so with a j/k smilie face and would ask them if I upset them in any way and that I was sorry if I did.
E:  (Unperturbed) Not discuss it with them

2.  Your 2nd best friend moved you from second position in their myspace friends list to 8th position do you:
A:  (Angry) Call them up straight away and demand an explanation
B:  (Upset) Ask them about it once you see them in person
C:  (Annoyed) Bring it up casually when you next see them
D:  (Concerned) Comment them in myspace and ask them about it
E:  (Unperturbed) Not discuss it with them I wouldn't be as bothered I guess.

3.  A friend moves you from fifth position, to out of there top myspace friends list do you:
A:  (Angry) Call them up straight away and demand an explanation
B:  (Upset) Ask them about it once you see them in person
C:  (Annoyed) Bring it up casually when you next see them
D:  (Concerned) Comment them in myspace and ask them about it If they remove me, I'll definitely ask about it.
E:  (Unperturbed) Not discuss it with them

4.  Someone you hang around with at TAFE deletes you from there myspace friends list do you:
A:  (Angry) Call them up straight away and demand an explanation
B:  (Upset) Ask them about it once you see them in person
C:  (Annoyed) Bring it up casually when you next see them
D:  (Concerned) Comment them in myspace and ask them about it
E:  (Unperturbed) Not discuss it with them

Uhh... what is TAFE? Man, I'm such a noob. :

5.  Someone you met at a party the other night and spoke with briefly adds you to myspace and then deletes you the next day:
A:  (Angry) Call them up straight away and demand an explanation
B:  (Upset) Ask them about it once you see them in person Oh, I'd be upset and mad for sure and would never speak again to the mean bastard ever again. 
C:  (Annoyed) Bring it up casually when you next see them
D:  (Concerned) Comment them in myspace and ask them about it
E:  (Unperturbed) Not discuss it with them

[Radiant]

Your worst enemy moves you from rank 10 to rank four on his Yourspace hitlist. Do you

A: call him up straight away and demand an explanation
B: call him up straight away and tell him his momma so fat
C: drive over to his house with assorted high-powered laser rifles
D: drop a nuklear bomb on his house
E: taunt him by moving him to rank three on your own hitlist