Title: NOT-NERDS IN "NOT-NERDS" SHOCKER
Post by: -=>DEMONIZER<=- on 15 March, 2004, 01:20:52 AM
Post by: -=>DEMONIZER<=- on 15 March, 2004, 01:20:52 AM
Check today's Mail on Sunday supplement:-
"And the stereotypical view of an average chatroom user - the solitary nerd - could not be further from the truth. Professor Andrew Oswald of Warwick University carried out a survey of those who did - and did not - use the internet.
'I was expecting people who used the internet to lack confidence, to be shy people who never left the house,' he says. 'In fact, they are more likely to take part in community activities and are less shy and reserved than people who aren't online. It seems as though using the internet actually helps to build people's confidence.'
Malcolm Stern agrees: 'Perhaps they are leading more fulfilling lives because they are meeting people online who they have more in common with than their other friends. Why should we assume that the people we bump into in our day-to-day lives will become our best friends?'"
Well, there you go.
;)
"And the stereotypical view of an average chatroom user - the solitary nerd - could not be further from the truth. Professor Andrew Oswald of Warwick University carried out a survey of those who did - and did not - use the internet.
'I was expecting people who used the internet to lack confidence, to be shy people who never left the house,' he says. 'In fact, they are more likely to take part in community activities and are less shy and reserved than people who aren't online. It seems as though using the internet actually helps to build people's confidence.'
Malcolm Stern agrees: 'Perhaps they are leading more fulfilling lives because they are meeting people online who they have more in common with than their other friends. Why should we assume that the people we bump into in our day-to-day lives will become our best friends?'"
Well, there you go.
;)
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Queen Firey-Bou on 15 March, 2004, 03:23:40 AM
Post by: Queen Firey-Bou on 15 March, 2004, 03:23:40 AM
well thats cool, tho i imagine theres a whole range of chat users & non chat users on the nerd continuum.
basically out of the real people i see on a regular basis, the ones who use the internet & e-mail loads & yes even use chat rooms & forums, are actually the more outward looking, confident sortof people. Those who look agast when i mention such computronic interaction are in fact the type of folks who are still watching the same soaps & sitting in the same chair that they did 15 years ago.
So i reckon that statment above sounds about right.
basically out of the real people i see on a regular basis, the ones who use the internet & e-mail loads & yes even use chat rooms & forums, are actually the more outward looking, confident sortof people. Those who look agast when i mention such computronic interaction are in fact the type of folks who are still watching the same soaps & sitting in the same chair that they did 15 years ago.
So i reckon that statment above sounds about right.
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: WoD on 15 March, 2004, 03:59:35 AM
Post by: WoD on 15 March, 2004, 03:59:35 AM
Hmm, someone reads the Mail.....I'll get the firewood; think we got ourselves a burning....
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: -=>DEMONIZER<=- on 15 March, 2004, 04:22:43 AM
Post by: -=>DEMONIZER<=- on 15 March, 2004, 04:22:43 AM
I didn't buy it - belonged to someone else.
We can burn him, if you want.
We can burn him, if you want.
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 15 March, 2004, 05:23:00 AM
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 15 March, 2004, 05:23:00 AM
That's what they all say...
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Matt Timson on 15 March, 2004, 02:37:32 PM
Post by: Matt Timson on 15 March, 2004, 02:37:32 PM
...as the flames begin to lick at the edges of their toes...
Actually, I'll read pretty much anything. Depending on how bored I am.
Actually, I'll read pretty much anything. Depending on how bored I am.
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Wils on 15 March, 2004, 03:10:21 PM
Post by: Wils on 15 March, 2004, 03:10:21 PM
*Anything*?
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Dudley on 15 March, 2004, 03:15:47 PM
Post by: Dudley on 15 March, 2004, 03:15:47 PM
ARRGGGHHHH!
A warning next time, maybe?
A warning next time, maybe?
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Matt Timson on 15 March, 2004, 03:25:33 PM
Post by: Matt Timson on 15 March, 2004, 03:25:33 PM
Hmmm... probably not Digital Justice...
;)
;)
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Wils on 15 March, 2004, 04:57:38 PM
Post by: Wils on 15 March, 2004, 04:57:38 PM
Ah ha! As of later today, I'll no longer be the owner of said pile of shite. :p
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: VampiraJen on 15 March, 2004, 08:30:43 PM
Post by: VampiraJen on 15 March, 2004, 08:30:43 PM
well, i don't leave the house, but only coz there's nowhere to go
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Oddboy on 15 March, 2004, 08:42:53 PM
Post by: Oddboy on 15 March, 2004, 08:42:53 PM
I leave the house lots - I chat on the internet from work.
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: VampiraJen on 15 March, 2004, 08:46:02 PM
Post by: VampiraJen on 15 March, 2004, 08:46:02 PM
isn't that against work policy? When i was at college i didn't even have the (metophorical) balls to do not college related internet stuff. i feared the wrath of the librarians ever since the told me to put away my bottle of dilluted orange juice...
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Dudley on 15 March, 2004, 08:48:43 PM
Post by: Dudley on 15 March, 2004, 08:48:43 PM
If workplaces actually enforced these policies, the internet would be a much quieter place.
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Slippery PD on 15 March, 2004, 08:52:11 PM
Post by: Slippery PD on 15 March, 2004, 08:52:11 PM
Or be in charge of the policy itself :D
Yer Slips
Yer Slips
Title: Re: NOT-NERDS IN
Post by: Queen Firey-Bou on 15 March, 2004, 10:01:47 PM
Post by: Queen Firey-Bou on 15 March, 2004, 10:01:47 PM
i'm only killing time here before i go adventuring to outer kwalaluphar thingy or another... well really its cos i cant face work today ( i hate the public , loonies all loonies why do they bother me sooooo ). and cos domestic stress has made me a bit mental & hiding in a corner on the computer seems as good a hiding place as any.
i'm working my way up to a loan for a laptop , & then i could take my hiding place with me places... that would rock.
i'm working my way up to a loan for a laptop , & then i could take my hiding place with me places... that would rock.