Take this survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Where do you fit on their Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users?
I'm "Connected but Hassled" which means I have a lot of technology and communication devices and I use them, but I feel hassled by them. They are intrusive. Supposedly the average age of the people in this group is 49.
I feel old.
What are you?
6 comments:
I'm an omnivore. I use my information gadgets "voraciously" "to participate in cyberspace and express myself online."
And yet, I constantly feel hassled by those gadgets.
Huh - I am a Lackluster Veteran. Here are a few of my particularly "fitting" characteristics:
• ...have the necessary gadgets for the information age, such as a broadband connection, cell phone, and a digital camera... (2 out of 3, anyway)
• ...seem content with surfing the Web or emailing others, but they do not show great inclination to stretch their technology habits... (I just had an hour-long meeting yesterday where I had to justify why I want to implement Web 2.0 tools on the library's website - does that count as stretching my technology habits?)
• ...This group has a median age of 40... (I knew I felt older for a reason)
• ...they are well educated and comfortably financially... (well, sweet)
Supposedly I'm an "omnivore," which only sort-of fits.
Who wrote this quiz? Cosmo?
Omnivore, though I think it's rather wrong. Sure, I watch missed television online and post little stories here or there, but other than that...eh. I CERTAINLY do not have -- and never WANT to have -- a Crackberry.
*yawns* It's hot today.
I know you will be shocked, omnivore.
nye! - I'm not surprised, you strike me as an omnivore.
herzogbr - Hoorah for well educated and financially comfortable. I'm not sure how librarians are ever really financially comfortable though....
stacy - haha, Pew would probably not be too excited about being linked to cosmo.
elizabeth - oh, i know you, secretly you long for a crackberry...
andrew - i am absolutely shocked.
Judging by everyone's responses, I'd say this quiz is sometimes but not always, accurate.
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