Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2009

What kind of tech user am I?

I was doing a test on the internet about what kind of tech user I am. http://www.pewinternet.org/Participate/What-Kind-of-Tech-User-Are-You.aspx I did the test twice with different initial situations. The first time I imagined what I was like at the beginning of class in terms of the internet and other technical stuff.
The result was that I am "Drifting Surfer". That means I am an infrequent internet user who only gathers basic information. The digital resources are not the center how I get information, stay in touch with friends or do my job.
In my eyes this result does exactly describe myself at the beginning of the class. For me the internet was just a nice medium to find out a lot of information and to check my emails but it was not that important to me to stay in touch with people. I think that staying in touch with people is more worth if you talk in real life or meet each other. Although I have to say that it is an easy way to stay in touch with a huge amount of people.
The second time I did the test I was doing it from my point of view today I got a different result. Now it says I am an "Ambivalent Networker" which means that technical tools are important for me to run my social life. I also think that sometimes the connectivity is too intrusive.
This result is matching, too. I noticed that because of this class I spend more time on the internet. I have a blog now and I research a lot for it and write my own ideas down. I also watch more stuff on youtube which I never used to do before.
however, sometimes I still believe that it is a waste of time to spend so much time on the internet because you cannot stop that easily. You find more and more information and you open a lot of new pages and then you do not realize how much time went by already.
As a final result I would say that I like to be on the internet and love getting a lot of information but I do not rely so much on it. I still know there are more important things than spending my whole time on the internet. Real people are more important to me than all the social networks.

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