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Quiz: What sort of an Internet user are you?

Which of these do you most enjoy doing regularly?
Blogging to an audience that's bigger than your friends and your mom
Digging, slashdotting and posting photos to Flickr
Hanging out on Facebook or MySpace
Hanging out at a specialist social networking site (e.g. LibraryThing, Essembly, specialist messageboards)
Turning off your computer

When you get up in the morning, do you...
Switch on the TV
Log on and check your email
Log on and check your blog
Log on and check your Facebook/MySpace
Log on and check the headlines at Wired.com or Digg

Have you heard of Ajax and Ruby on Rails?
No one in my online community really cares about that sort of stuff.
Yes, and I can explain the difference between them.
A cleaning product and a new MAC nail polish, right?
No, but one of my friends probably has -- let me just ask...
I let Wordpress/Blogger handle that side of stuff for me.

Do you wiki and tag?
My friends and I love tagging and posting on each other's walls.
Of course. Anything that'll help people find my pearls of wisdom.
Eh?
I've written the definitive Wikipedia article on my obsession
I've developed my own tagging taxonomy to ensure consistency across all my posts

What do you think about trolls?
I don't get why anyone would do something like that to my little corner of the Internet.
Argh! Trolls are SO annoying!
I track IP addresses so I just ban them. End of story.
I hunt them down and destroy them with a nice little DNS attack I wrote myself.
Umm... trolls don't exist.

You see Paris Hilton in the street. What do you do?
Think, "Who cares?"
Think, "Oh my, that's Paris Hilton."
Think, "Oh my, that's Paris Hilton," and blog about it later
Think, "Oh my, that's Paris Hilton," whip out your mobile, take a picture and post it to Flickr/your blog via text message
Think, "Oh my, that's Paris Hilton," and tell all your online friends about it later

You get your news from...
Your friends list
Newspapers and TV
Online news site, e.g. CNN.com
Aggregate news site, e.g. Digg.com, Reddit.com
You write the news -- the sort that you read, anyway.

How do you keep up with your friends?
On the phone
Via email
Via Facebook, MySpace
Via your blog
Via instant messenger

The Internet belongs to...
Bill Gates
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Rupert Murdoch
Me
Everyone

And the best thing about the Internet is...
Being able to find like-minded people -- wherever they are
The cool stuff you can do with code
It's another place to hang out and have fun!
The convenience of getting information quickly
The world is my audience.



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