The Internet and its Impact on You!!

[ZiMMeR-MaN]

Ok so I'm doing a project on the Internet and Its impact on the social behaviour of the youth.
I've dug up a fair bit of info gathered from studies, I figured that I might as well throw in some case studies.
And well, where better to go to find people to help you out than an online forum full of internet junkies.

I'd really appreciate it if you guys could help me out.

1)Name:
2)Age:
3)Location:
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day:
5)What do you use the internet for?:
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc):
7)Number of hours spent playing online games:
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?:
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things)
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why)

And anything you'd like to say about the internet.


These are some of the questions that I could think of. If some of you could answer it and pm me if you don't want everyone to read your answers or just post it here.
Also any information that you guys think that I might find useful will do.

Just to explain my project a bit: Im kinda trying to state that the internet does affect social behaviour and at some levels hampers social skills while at other levels also helps enhance our capabilities... (The availability of info on the web.. etc.. types)

Thanks for all the help in advance.

[Kiezel]

1)Name: Niels
2)Age: 16
3)Location: The Netherlands
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: ~4 hours
5)What do you use the internet for?: Gaming, School Projects/Information, Finding information with health issues.
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): RTS; War Games?
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: ~4
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?:
No, I'm far from aggresive. I used to be agressive when I was 7 years or so. But it faded away (I started playing computer games around that age aswell, but I don't know if there is a direct link between it, it can also be because I moved 300 Kilometers)
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things)
Its my main hobby, and I do it very often. But I will not ever cancel a appointment, date or not study at all for a test in order to make use of the computer. I can be fine on my own for a few days, but be fine in a group aswell.
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why)
Makes the world smaller. Not much, but it does. I see more from korea and the USA then I whould without the internet. I communicate more often with people that are not-dutch. In some very rare cases it puts them on their own little islands (wow addicts), but as I mentioned befor, I will not (in)directly tell people that I can not come over or so because I have to make use of the computer. I will never eat meals behind the PC either.

[SexehSeacow]

1)Name:Alexander Hedlund
2)Age: 19
3)Location: Stockholm
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: 3-8
5)What do you use the internet for?: Games, chatting, pr0n
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): Strategy, aggressive
7)Number of hours spent playing online games:1-3
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?:Nope, quite calm
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things) Ofcourse. During my WoW-period I didnt spend as much time with friends, gf, etc.
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why)Well, from an IRL perspective, you get more isolated, you dont go out and see friends as often. But you might in fact have two-three times more relations over the internet than in RL. Hm, what conclusion am I trying to reach here -_-; Uh. Yes, I do think the "world gets smaller". Im a bit confused atm. Hope these answers helped you out anyway.

[NoBigThing]

1)Name: Kris De Winter
2)Age: 18
3)Location: Belgium
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: ~3
5)What do you use the internet for?: Forums, games, chat
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): Strategy
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: ~1,5
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?: No, never been agressive
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things) Yes, I've thrown an important part of my life away by spending it on the internet and not outside.
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why) Yes, because of the internet people tend to forget that there's more out there... it happened to me and thousands of other people like me. The internet is good until you're addicted to it and you'll feel like you can't go without.

Good idea for a project ZiMMeR, good luck with it.

[SaTaN-Hk]

1)Name: Simon Bumgardner
2)Age: 18
3)Location: Between America and Canada in Vermont
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: To many 3-8
5)What do you use the internet for?: Gaming/Porn
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): All
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: 3-8
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?: Yes, Yes
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things) Made me a bum
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why) Making the world smaller, because you can see anything from the world on the internet. (worded badly but i don't know how to make sound like i want it.)

[elitedesolator]

1)Name: Ho Yeung
2)Age:16
3)Location: Hong Kong
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: ~2
5)What do you use the internet for?: Forum, games, msn, wikipeida, homework
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): all of the above. violent, horror, rpg, single player, multiplayer, fps, rts...
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: ~0.5
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?: No. I am docile.
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things) Decreased time spent with family. Nothing else.
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why) the internet is so good that many have decreased their time doing other things just to go there. on one side you dont have as much time spent with your friends, and on the other people drop out of life literally. I guess its up to you to decide how much is too much.

[ex0duz]

I'd just like to say that without the internet, i'd be clueless(too lazy to research shit at library, but internet i'd read up on things i'd be too embarassed to even admit to knowing lol, i'd bored outta my mind, and i'd have to use a telephone to call friends, instead of just msg'ing them online.

Internet rocks. My comp has pretty much replaced the TV, games console, telephony devices, and even my stereo.. i guess im more social in that i chat with my friends more online than i would if we had no net, so i dont know if that makes me more social or less social since i see them less in real life..

The best thing about the internet is the freedom and ease of getting/sharing information. It's pretty much revolutionary in my eyes, the best thing to happen to humanity since the wheel, and i see it as a pivotal instrument that will lead us into the next human revolution/evolution era:p

[ZiMMeR-MaN]

Thanks a bunch guys..
Really appreciate the help.

If any of you are interested I'll send you the article/project once its done.

Also I kinda had to edit some bits of your answers, though havn't changed the meaning of anything.

Again, all opinions about the internet are most welcome...

[Ecto]

1)Name: Rune
2)Age: 18
3)Location:Denmark
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day:5-12
5)What do you use the internet for?:Research, entertainment, education
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc):I play pretty much all games. I only ever played Warcraft and Counter-strike to a level where I could be considered a decent player, though.
7)Number of hours spent playing online games:1-2
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?:Mentally, I have always been an aggressive person. I have to restrain myself from flaming people a lot while on Internet forums. Physically, I'm very much against violence. I was in a lot of fights up until age 16, but decided to stop it.
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things) It takes up a lot of my time. It's my link to the world.
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their own little islands?(Give reasons why)The internet has very much helped making the world smaller. The Internet is (to some degree) a meritocracy, meaning that your money or social status is much less important compared to your ability to communicate. This opens up for some very interesting possibilities for people of lesser means to communicate their ideas to a wider audience. Still, at the moment, the Internet is a "rich man's club", for even though it may be used a lot by the western middle classes, these are still part of the global upper class.

[Allied]

1)Name: David Smith
2)Age: 23
3)Location: Schwanau, Germany
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: I dunno, too many
5)What do you use the internet for?: Playing, surfing, watching movies, schoolwork, talking to people...
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): All of them
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: 2-3
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?: No and No.
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things) Not really. If I wasn't doing this, I would be doing something else not having to do with them.
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their own little islands?(Give reasons why): edit (let me rephrase that): It has definitly made communication easier, so that brings people together. I don't see any evidence that it is harmful to people though.

[KhamBloodreign]

1)Name: Alexander
2)Age: 25
3)Location: West Germany
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: 2-12 Comp is nearly on 24 hours a day though
5)What do you use the internet for?: Watching films, listening to and finding new music
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): Round Based and Real Time Strategy Games, old Lucasarts adventures, some roleplaying games. Mainly Warcraft III though and I don`t care about the level of violence as long as the game is good
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: 1-4 hours
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?: Yes and yes
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things) Not really. Before the internet I played NES/SNES/PSX like a maniac
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why) Never thought about it neither do I care

[murh]

1)Name:
Murh....

2)Age:
17

3)Location:
Wassenaar, The Netherlands

4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day:
around 1,5 avarage

5)What do you use the internet for?:
Gaming, messenger, forums

6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc):
You did asume I'd write gaming. You must be phycic! Only WC3. So strategy

7)Number of hours spent playing online games:
OVER NINE THOUSAND (wouldn't know), about 5 a week

8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?:
No. Yes

9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things)
Not really, since it's been here for all my life.

10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their own little islands?(Give reasons why).
Making the world smaller, yes. Of course, due the fast communication. For example. I'm able to have a webcam conversation with a girlfriend who moved to NY two weks ago. And my personal opinion is that people who want to be on islands will get there anyway. (putting all their intrest in one thing, IE homework, model ships in bottles, tv, an instrument, etc.)

[SquiRRel]

1)Name: Andy Clarke
2)Age: 15
3)Location: Denmark
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: Different from day to day, but 4-6
5)What do you use the internet for?: playing wc3, schoolwork and chatting on MSN with friends
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): Wc3.
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: Too much
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?: Depends what aggressive it, but I would say i'm a bit aggressive, but i've always been like that.
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things) The internet hasn't, but playing wc3 has made my approach too school much worse in terms of homework etc.
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why)
Well, both I would say, we sit alone in our room, playing computer or chatting with friends instead of going outside to have a talk with your friends.
own little islands?(Give reasons why)

[Demicore]

Hehe interesting.

1)Name: Nicholas Morgan
2)Age: 20
3)Location: Toulouse, France
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: 2-10
5)What do you use the internet for?: IRC, MSN, forums, online games, illegal downloads
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): RTS, RPG, some of them are violent, some are not, the degree of violence is not a factor in the way I pick the games I want to play
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: from 0 to 3 a day
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?: I'm not an agressive person at all, unless you consider sarcasm as an act of agression!
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? yes, makes me waste a lot of time
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their own little islands? I'm sure it has greatly helped in solidifying the bond between different cultures, as access to said cultures is no longer limited to those who can afford to travel abroad.

gl hf with whatever your project is.

[firewave]

1)Name:Lubomir
2)Age: 15
3)Location: Sofia,Bulgaria
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: 4-5
5)What do you use the internet for?: Games,Surfing,Chat etc
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): RTS,RPG
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: 3-4
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?:Im a calm person.I dont like fight.I always try to stay out of trouble.Of course if i got no choice ill do my job and set the things right with my bare hands ;D
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things):Yes.At first i was so happy that i have an Internet Connection that i didnt go out with frs for more than 3-4 days.After the euphory my life became the same as it was before.My mom and dad never liked the Internet.They think its ruining my life but its all about control and i think i can control myself pretty well
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why) : I dont think Internet made the world "smaller",cuz when you are online you actually communicate with other people,no matter you see them or not.Its almost the same as communicating with your RL friends.

[I[AM]SMRT]

1)Name: Brian Lin
2)Age: 18
3)Location: Montreal, QC
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: 6-8
5)What do you use the internet for?: Forums, wc3, talking to friends, doing my work, email
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): violent and
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: 1-2 per day
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?: Not really.
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things): Yea, I probably spend more time on the internet when I could be socializing, spending time with my family, reading, etc.
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their own little islands?(Give reasons why): Both,
I can say that if I didn't use the internet so much, I'd have tons more friends in college right now. At the same time, however, I've met plenty of people and have become good friends with them (I've even partied with some and gone to concerts with some). People I would have never met in real life.

[Gloop]

1)Name: Richard Fisher
2)Age: 17
3)Location: England
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: 4-5 (except on a KF Shoutcast)
5)What do you use the internet for?: Information gathering, Communication, Porn (at least im honest)
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): Something requiring a little bit of thinking
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: 2-3
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?: No I'm a coward
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things) Made communication with people a lot easier
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why) I believe the internet brings people together, so more people are aware of different cultures and can bond with people from very different backgrounds and communities

[Wumpus]

1)Name: Bahman Amini
2)Age: 23
3)Location: Iran
4)Number of Hours spent on the internet per day: 2-3 hours
5)What do you use the internet for?: Research, Education , chating with my friends
6)What kind of games(Violent/aggressive/role playing/etc): nothing!
7)Number of hours spent playing online games: -
8)Are you an aggressive person by nature? Have you always been like this?: no , not at all.
9)Has the internet affected your life in anyway? (time spent with friends, family, doing other things) ofc .
10)Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands?(Give reasons why) yea, I believe internet has brought people more close to each other. When I'm talking with people from all over the world just like you and other members of this Community ,I feel no different between them and my friends in Iran , and that makes me feel really cool.

[ZiMMeR-MaN]

w00t. Seems that I've stumbled upon a goldmine here.

Though my conclusion is pretty obvious... *sigh*
The internet is GOOOD!!!

[Chavez]

Name: Alex
Age: 19
Location: New Jersey
Number of hours on internet per day: 2-4 hours avg
What do you use the internet for?: Recreation/Education
What kind of games?: All types.
Number of hours spent playing online games: Not sure.

Are you an aggressive person by nature? Yes, very much so.

Has the internet affected your life in anyway? Yes, Ive met many friends from the internet. Learned a great deal of things that have been handy offline.

Do you think the internet has contributed in making the world smaller or pushing people apart into their
own little islands? Both.