Interview people's experience in Second Life?

[webbk]

Hello Second Life member,

I appologise if I have put this in the wrong section, I'm not particularly experienced at using forums also I have not experienced a lot of Second Life and have only learned the basics.

What I have come here to ask is if anyone would be willing to complete an interview about your experiences and knowledge of the topic.

This can be done via email, msn, skype, in-game or whatever is most comfortable such as text based communication. This is for a university project I am doing about Second Life where our goal is to find out how it effects ones real life.
The type of questions (There is about 20-30 questions) that are going to be asked aren't going to be judgemental or harsh, however if a participant doesn't want to answer a question or wants to quit at any time, that is completely fine.
e.g. Q: How do you find the social interaction within Second Life?

Any participation would be immensly appreciated,

 

User webbk

 

 

[Dresden Ceriano]

Post the questions here and maybe I'll think about answering them.

The truth is, you can't expect a lot of people to jump at the chance of being interviewed by someone that isn't willing to put a substantial effort into figuring out what SL is about on their own.  At your SL age, I can pretty much guarantee you don't have the sufficient knowledge to formulate anything close to an intelligent list of 20 to 30 questions and I refuse to, once again, try to decipher unanswerable questions by someone who doesn't even have a clue.

But, like I said, post them here and I'll think about it... otherwise, no thanks.

...Dres

[Orca Flotta]

zacly, Dres. Surveys are a kinda lazy way to get around doing the hard job of experiencing/investigating the topic yourself, but this one goes even a step further in the lazy department.

Hey, OP, if you wanna do like personal interviews instead of a multiple choice survey this is what you want to do:

LOG IN, GO TO DIFFERENT PLACES, TALK TO PEOPLE!

These forums do not represent an effective cross section of your target group anyway since you  find here mostly tired oldbies who prefer to blabber in forum over logging in. :smileywink:

[Czari Zenovka]

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Orca Flotta wrote:

 

These forums do not represent an effective cross section of your target group anyway since you  find here mostly tired oldbies who prefer to blabber in forum over logging in. :smileywink:

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I've been trying to figure out why, for approximately the last 6 months or so, I log into SL and many times am not motivated to do anything so I log back out.  You hit the nail on the proverbial head. :matte-motes-wink:

[Dresden Ceriano]

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Czari Zenovka wrote:

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Orca Flotta wrote:

 

These forums do not represent an effective cross section of your target group anyway since you  find here mostly tired oldbies who prefer to blabber in forum over logging in. :smileywink:

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I've been trying to figure out why, for approximately the last 6 months or so, I log into SL and many times am not motivated to do anything so I log back out.  You hit the nail on the proverbial head. :matte-motes-wink:

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No kidding... what's even sadder is when I sometimes log into SL just to sit at my virtual computer desk and do nothing but post to the forum.

...Dres

[Czari Zenovka]

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Dresden Ceriano wrote:

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Czari Zenovka wrote:

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Orca Flotta wrote:

 

These forums do not represent an effective cross section of your target group anyway since you  find here mostly tired oldbies who prefer to blabber in forum over logging in. :smileywink:

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I've been trying to figure out why, for approximately the last 6 months or so, I log into SL and many times am not motivated to do anything so I log back out.  You hit the nail on the proverbial head. :matte-motes-wink:

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No kidding... what's even sadder is when I sometimes log into SL just to sit at my virtual computer desk and do nothing but post to the forum.

...Dres

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Oh gosh!  I do that too!  This is really bad.  Maybe we need to form a support group.

[Perrie Juran]

 

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Czari Zenovka wrote:

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Dresden Ceriano wrote:

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Czari Zenovka wrote:

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Orca Flotta wrote:

These forums do not represent an effective cross section of your target group anyway since you  find here mostly tired oldbies who prefer to blabber in forum over logging in. :smileywink:

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I've been trying to figure out why, for approximately the last 6 months or so, I log into SL and many times am not motivated to do anything so I log back out.  You hit the nail on the proverbial head. :matte-motes-wink:

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No kidding... what's even sadder is when I sometimes log into SL just to sit at my virtual computer desk and do nothing but post to the forum.

...Dres

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Oh gosh!  I do that too!  This is really bad.  Maybe we need to form a support group.

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it gets boring sometimes

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Czari Zenovka wrote:

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Dresden Ceriano wrote:

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Czari Zenovka wrote:

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Orca Flotta wrote:

 

These forums do not represent an effective cross section of your target group anyway since you  find here mostly tired oldbies who prefer to blabber in forum over logging in. :smileywink:

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I've been trying to figure out why, for approximately the last 6 months or so, I log into SL and many times am not motivated to do anything so I log back out.  You hit the nail on the proverbial head. :matte-motes-wink:

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No kidding... what's even sadder is when I sometimes log into SL just to sit at my virtual computer desk and do nothing but post to the forum.

...Dres

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Oh gosh!  I do that too!  This is really bad.  Maybe we need to form a support group.

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I grew up online in text venues, campus computer terminal IM and bulletin boards at first, then usenet and IRC. Now I find that when I'm in-world, I'm usually balancing on my ottoman, or standing in my fireplace as I chat with others in IM. I sometimes wonder if Philip Rosedale underestimated the power of the written word.

[Trinity Yazimoto]

to the OP.. you can im me inworld, ill be glad to help you. If im not online, do not worry, your im will go in my mailbox and ill contact you as soon as ill log for we can settle an appointement.

 

[VRprofessor]

 

OP it is usual and customary--not to mention good manners--to explain why you are conducting a survey.   Are you working on a school project or do you have some other purpose?   If not for school, who is paying you to conduct the survey?

If you are working on a school project you are very likely to need approval by an institutional committee charged with overseeing research to make sure that researcher are conducting their research  ethically.

[webbk]

I am sorry, you are correct. This is part of a research assignment for a unit I am completing at university. The purpose of this is to determine whether or not Second Life effects the real life of the user.

I had my message written up in a MS document (So I could copy and paste a single message to advertise in a number of places) and I must have missed out that part when I C&P. My bad.

Furthermore go back and check my post. I was asking for an interview not a survey, there is a difference.

And yes I have recieved permission to interview from my institution.

[webbk]

Thanks for your input.

First. My task isn't to work out how second life works. It is to try and understand the users in Second Life (why they play and what makes it appealing to them), hence my asking here.

Sorry I wasn't completely clear in my initial post asking about 'knowledge and experience'. That was my bad.

The questions I was going to ask were just incredibly general questions such as Q. How long do you play? Q. Do you play video games?, etc.
I feel very sorry for you if you have trouble deciphering those kinds of unanswerable questions.

What you are probably now thinking. Why waste my time on those questions or even this thread? My answer to that is simple. Don't reply. That's rather easy for you to decipher.

Anyway thank you again for your input, I now have a better understanding the type of people who use Second Life..

[webbk]

Thanks for your input as well. There is a difference between a survey and a interview, I was asking for a interview.

Completing an interview is a necessary component to the task I have to complete. We are attempting to understand why people play Second LIfe and get THE USERS opinion. Not mine. There is only way to do that. ask.

I did not provide that detail in my first post, that is my bad, however I feel that you jumped to conclusions rather quickly.

I am not lazy. I am trying to cover a wider area. I could interview a bunch of classmates who know nothing about Second Life. But I felt coming here would be more productive. It turns out I was wrong

[webbk]

Thank you, I really appreciate a friendly response.

[Kelli May]

Unlike many survey posters, you do claim to have spent *some* time in SL, and you are prepared to meet people in-world for interviews. So good on you for that.

You will find a lot of resistance to being used as 'lab rats' from many forumites; we do get an awful lot of people hitting us for surveys here. Yours is the second today for me, and at least the third this week. There are also a number of residents with a lot of knowledge (or claimed knowledge) of academia, so be prepared for an intellectual mauling over the aims and methodology of your interview.

If you'd like to send me a personal message here or a notecard in-world with your questions, I'll try to answer them.

[Trinity Yazimoto]

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webbk wrote:

Thank you, I really appreciate a friendly response.

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you are welcome ! i hope you changed your idea about deleting your account... im me when you can, i can even ask some of my friends to answer your questions aswell :smileyhappy:

[Dresden Ceriano]

Looking back at my first response, I realize how easy it must have been for you to misconstrue my remarks about researchers that come here seeking guinea pigs in general, as an attack on you personally.  I assure you, that was not my intention and, for not making that clear, I apologize.  I will speak no further on the matter... at least in this thread.

But I would like to advise you not to delete your account because of a few seemingly negative reactions to your inquiry.  Not everyone will be receptive, but that doesn't mean that there won't be those that are... you'll never come across them if you give up so easily.

...Dres

[Melita Magic]

There are currently five such topics on the entry page for this forum alone. That is typical of the forum.

Regulars do tire of the never ending survey requests, but if you had any plans to actually explore and take part in or join the SL community, then please do. Don't let that end with your initial survey replies even if those replies are "I don't want to take your survey" (or words to that effect.)

If you do actually care about the SL virtual planet then go out and dive into it.

[Ceka Cianci]

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webbk wrote:

Thanks for your input as well. There is a difference between a survey and a interview, I was asking for a interview.

Completing an interview is a necessary component to the task I have to complete. We are attempting to understand why people play Second LIfe and get THE USERS opinion. Not mine. There is only way to do that. ask.

I did not provide that detail in my first post, that is my bad, however I feel that you jumped to conclusions rather quickly.

I am not lazy. I am trying to cover a wider area. I could interview a bunch of classmates who know nothing about Second Life. But I felt coming here would be more productive. It turns out I was wrong

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the results end up about the same as if you would have asked some classmates that didn't know any better.. from the end results i've seen from these over the years..

there may be a difference in how you ask for things..but those of us that have done more than you have given out..

we see the results end up about the same..misunderstood

so really to many of us it's not much of a difference between and interview and a survey..just some rewording to get quick results..

there will be 5 more behind you and 5 of you just leaving wanting to figure out why we do what we do..

 

name it however you wish..we know the difference..and it's not much..

it's about as different as a firebird and a camero..