Survey about offline & online relationships

[Skytteflickan88]

Thanks, I have all I need now

Real Life/Offline and online relationships
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Questionnaire

I was hoping some of you could help me with this assignment at school (Växjö University). It’s just for an assignment due this Monday and I won’t use your answers in any other way than to read the results to my class and my teacher Nina Waldmann (who is responsible for this survey).

I’m curious and want to know how people compare offline (in Real Life) and online relationships. How much you value them compared to each other.

So if you could answer these 15 questions and PM them to me, I would be very grateful (it’s alright if you skip the first 4, but I think they might be valuable).

Remember to PM them to me, not post them here. I want to make sure you feel you can answer more truthfully than if the entire forum where to read your answers.

You can change your mind about me using these answers whenever you like (before I read them at Monday of course).

I won’t mention your username, I will only mention which online community I got the results from.

One final thing you need to know; My definition of relationship in this questionnaire is;
Friendship relationships or romantic relationships. Sometimes I ask a question specifically about friendship, but when I just use the word “relationship”, assume I mean both kinds.
When I say “online” relationship, I mean those that are mainly based online, with very little offline interaction having occurred (if you’ve met your online friend for coffée once or twice, it still counts as a online relationship).

Let’s get started!

Nationality:
Gender:
Age:
Occupation:

1. In case you make a friend online, do you think that relationship could be as strong as a offline friend relationship, even if you never meet in real life?

Yes
No

1b. Do you think an online romantic relationship could work as a well as an offline one?

Yes
No
Yes, I have had a relationship like that


2. How much time do you spend (per week) talking to people online?



3.How much of that take is devoted to talking to offline friends/lovers, and how much is spent talking to online friends/lovers?

Mainly offline friends/lovers
Mainly online friends/lovers
About 50/50.

4. Do you value, or do you think you could value online relationships as much as you do offline relationships, or are those relationships less important to you?

Yes
No

5. In case you would, or do, value an online relationship very much, do you fear or feel that people judge you for doing so?

Yes
No

6. Do you ever feel like you should make more offline relationships, and focus less on the online ones?

Yes
No

7. Do you ever feel that it’s just easier to create relationships online, instead of going out to make offline ones?

Yes
No

8. Have you ever had an online relationship turned into an offline one (as in, you mainly meet offline now, or spend equal time online as offline?

Yes
No

9. If yes, did you feel like meeting in offline strengthened your relationships or weakened it?

Strengthened
Weakened
Nothing changed

10. Is there anything you wish to add? A question you didn’t understand, something you wanted to add about offline and online relationships?

[Rebecca]

Replied!

I'd like to see the results, if you don't mind, Sky.

[Iceeh★]

I sent in my answers. I hope they help! ^^

[Skytteflickan88]

Thanks! I have all the surveys I need now.

I'll post the results here later today or tomorrow (should be quick, it's basically about counting how many picked what answer) since they're anonymous.

-EDIT Here the results are Rebecca. I probably won't be much more specific when I share my results, maybe mention the exact nr. Some members shared more personal things than others that I can't post here but might bring up to dicuss in class.

Nationality: mainly americans
Gender: 50/50
Age: from 16-25
Occupation: mainly students

1. In case you make a friend online, do you think that relationship could be as strong as a offline friend relationship, even if you never meet in real life?

Most people answered YES

1b. Do you think an online romantic relationship could work as a well as an offline one?

Most people answered:
Yes, I have had a relationship like that


2. How much time do you spend (per week) talking to people online?

Varied, from 1-35 hours.

3.How much of that take is devoted to talking to offline friends/lovers, and how much is spent talking to online friends/lovers?

Most people answered:
Mainly online friends/lovers

4. Do you value, or do you think you could value online relationships as much as you do offline relationships, or are those relationships less important to you?

Most people answered:
Yes


5. In case you would, or do, value an online relationship very much, do you fear or feel that people judge you for doing so?

Most people answered:
No

6. Do you ever feel like you should make more offline relationships, and focus less on the online ones?

Most people answered:
No

7. Do you ever feel that it’s just easier to create relationships online, instead of going out to make offline ones?

Most people answered: YES


8. Have you ever had an online relationship turned into an offline one (as in, you mainly meet offline now, or spend equal time online as offline?

50/50

9. If yes, did you feel like meeting in offline strengthened your relationships or weakened it?

Most people answered:Strengthened


10. Is there anything you wish to add? A question you didn’t understand, something you wanted to add about offline and online relationships?

Different answers to this one.

And that's it. This was just a small assignement, meant for us to practise making questionnaires, so I won't be analyzing the results too much. In case I want to use the results for another project, I will ask for permission first.