Internet lingo survey
 

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It's for school. Your responses are appreciated. :)

What is your age?
What is your gender?
How frequently do you use the internet?

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email
Research for school/work.
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.)
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,)
Use internet bulletin boards.
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon)
Online gaming
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger)
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC)

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online?
Please list them:

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?
Please list them:

What is your age? 41

What is your gender? female

How frequently do you use the internet? every day

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email - yes
Research for school/work. - yes
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) - no
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) - no
Use internet bulletin boards. - is this forums? then, yes :)
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) - yes
Online gaming - no
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) - yes
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) - yes

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? every day
Please list them: can't think of any others now, but I know them when I see them, lol

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline? - occasionally
Please list them: googled is the only one I can think of

What is your age? 22
What is your gender? M
How frequently do you use the internet? 15 hours a day (no I'm not kidding)

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email yup
Research for school/work. yup
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) nope
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) yup
Use internet bulletin boards.yup
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon)yup
Online gaming yup
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) yup
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) yup

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled


How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online?
Please list them: unless I’m gaming, I don’t use that many, I use Photoshop all the time, the action referring to manipulating images. But not much more beyond that, unless my coworkers are being geeky, then we get long strings of words ending in ax0r. when I’m gaming, I do anything I can to get the message across quickly and concisely. But I don’t have much time for gaming with school.


How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?
Please list them: I don’t use that many, I use Photoshop all the time, the action referring to manipulating images. But not much more beyond that, unless my coworkers are being geeky, then we get long strings of words ending in ax0r.

What is your age? 23
What is your gender? Male
How frequently do you use the internet? Every day

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email yep
Research for school/work. yep
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) yep
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) yep
Use internet bulletin boards. yep
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) yep
Online gaming nope
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) yep
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) nope

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? daily
Please list them: w00t, roflcopters, irl, teh, l33t, owned, n00b, google, intarw3bs

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?
Please list them: w00t, roflcopters, irl, teh, l33t, owned, n00b, google, intarw3bs. Mostly i just say 'teh intarw3bs' too much.

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What is your age? 32
What is your gender? M
How frequently do you use the internet? Daily

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email - Y
Research for school/work. - Y
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) - Rarely
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) - Daily
Use internet bulletin boards. - Daily
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) - Rarely
Online gaming - N
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) - Y
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) - N

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? Occasionally
Please list them: Googled, Intarweb, noob, fux0r3d, Photoshopped, etc

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline? rarely
Please list them: See above

It's for school. Your responses are appreciated.

What is your age? 22

What is your gender? Male

How frequently do you use the internet? Far too often

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in--

Check Email: Yup

Research for school/work: Yup

Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.): Rarely

Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful): Sometimes
Use internet bulletin boards: Yup

Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon): Rarely

Online gaming: Yup

Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger): Yup

Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC): Only MMORPG related ones

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? All the time.

Please list them: Ummm... I'd be here all day if I did.

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline? More than I need to (Seriously).

Please list them: If my friends and I are playing Halo you might occassionaly hear me say "lol... I pwned your n00b ass!" (Isn't kidding, either).

What is your age? 39
What is your gender? male
How frequently do you use the internet? every day

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email yes
Research for school/work. yes
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) no
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) yes
Use internet bulletin boards. yes
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) no
Online gaming no
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) no
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) no

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online?
Please list them: meme (heard, never utilized, don't know if it originated on the internet, but I've never encountered it anywhere else)

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?
Please list them: fucksocks (heard, never utilized, don't know if it originated on the internet, but I've never encountered it anywhere else), googled

What is your age? - 24
What is your gender? - M
How frequently do you use the internet? - every day. I'm connected 24/7.

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email - only when i receive some.
Research for school/work. - yes
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) - rarely but a few times a week.
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) - webcomics 5times a week.
Use internet bulletin boards. - yes.
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) - rarely. (once a month or less)
Online gaming - no
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) - msn and gtalk 24/7.
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) - just the shoutbox here.

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? - Rarely.
Please list them: - Google/googled and photoshop/photoshoped.

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline? - Rarely.
Please list them: - Google/googled and photoshop/photoshoped are the only words I can think of.

What is your age? - 39
What is your gender? - M
How frequently do you use the internet? - every day. I'm connected 24/7. But not on vacation much at all.

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email - only when i receive some.
Research for school/work. - no
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) - Livejournal twice a week usually.
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) - webcomics once a week. Yahoo news sometimes. www.engrish.com www.nerve.com
Use internet bulletin boards. - yes 4 times a week or so.
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) - 7 times a month or so...
Online gaming - once a month. But www.scrabulous.com twice a day.
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) - ICQ and yahooIM twice a month.
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) - very rarely. twice a year

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? - Sometimes.
Please list them: - Google/googled and photoshop/photoshoped. Message board. website. websurf. "What is your LJ user name ?" "Is that on U-Tube ?" sig file. avatar.

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline? - Sometimes.
Please list them: Google/googled and photoshop/photoshoped. Message board. website. websurf. "What is your LJ user name ?" "Is that on U-Tube ?"

What is your age?
26

What is your gender?
male

How frequently do you use the internet?
constantly

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email - always on

Research for school/work. - research for school on small occasion, textbooks are normally enough (but I have several highly specialized books to augment the text)

Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) - occasionally and very lightly, and not with any serious interest in the interactions they offer

Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) - more often because someone has sent me a link. I don't generally seek out things like that.

Use internet bulletin boards. - I pretty much just belong to this place.

Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) - I used to buy lots of movies from different places online, back when I had a really nice job and wasn't a poor college student lol

Online gaming- none

Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) - Mostly for contact with good friends, not so much for casual acquaintances... my IM list isn't that big compared to some, but they're people I would care to talk to.

Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC)- None really, outside of the TFP one, which I would frequent even if I weren't a mod.

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online?
Please list them:

Probably none, though there may be a few that sneak in... I wouldn't consider "googled" to be on par with gamer/hacker/AOLer/1337 speak like "pwned" and "n00b" and the like. I think "googled" is the only one I use, and it's a very common verb now.

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?
Please list them:[/QUOTE]

None. I hate when people use the word "noob" in person. It's stupid- especially "pwned"... makes me wince at how dumb it seems to actually use it as a real word. I do use some net-originated lingo, but mostly for humorous purposes (and generally for mockery) like saying I saw something "on the internets". It's not because I seriously want to call it "the internets" but because it's a fun sort of mockery to do so, poking fun at those who DO take such things on a more serious (or any kind of serious) level.

What is your age?
24

What is your gender?
male

How frequently do you use the internet?
7 days a week, 4~8 hours a day.

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email
yes, gmail checker program is my favorite toy. To add to that, gmail for me checks 4 different email accounts. I love it.

Research for school/work.
done with school, do it for work.

Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.)
facebook about once a week.

Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,)
daily.

Use internet bulletin boards.
daily. (silly question here ya?)

Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon)
couple times a month.

Online gaming
rarely. see your second to last question for the reason.

Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger)
often enough.

Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC)
daily.

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled


How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online?
Please list them:

I honestly try to ignore those who use them, so I pay little attention.
My self, I rarely use them. Others, cant say for my self.

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated
on the internet in conversations offline?

Uh, never. Hear them? Once in a while you'll hear some 12 year old, or a 20+ year old who acts like a 12 year old.



*edit*

Come to think of it, terms like googled, and photoshopped would apply for both Online and Offline use.

Typically when I think of internet acronyms bad things come to mind.

What is your age? 24
What is your gender? Male
How frequently do you use the internet? Every Day

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email Daily
Research for school/work. Occasionally
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) Once a week on average, mainly facebook. Most of the time it's only a cursory look and nothing more.
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) Rarely, unless you count webcomics in which case there are a few I check daily.
Use internet bulletin boards. Daily
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) Almost never
Online gaming Rarely
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) Daily
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) Daily, with 4 IRC channels I use frequently.

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? Almost never
Please list them: Can't think of any offhand

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline? Almost never
Please list them: Can't think of any offhand

What is your age? 23
What is your gender?femaile
How frequently do you use the internet? 6 hours a day minimum

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email- several times a day
Research for school/work.- daily
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.)- religiously
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,)- once a month
Use internet bulletin boards.- i try daily ;)
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon)- weekly
Online gaming- NEVER
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger)- daily
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC)-monthly


How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? all the time
Please list them:googled, powned, l33t.

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?rarely - just googled
Please list them:googled

ok, but just for the sake of research
 

What is your age? 28
What is your gender? M
How frequently do you use the internet? At least daily

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email Yep
Research for school/work. Sometimes
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) Kinda
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) Not really
Use internet bulletin boards. At times
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) not often
Online gaming lately, yes
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) daily
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) almost daily

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? Often
Please list them: lol rotfl omg omgrotfl afk imho imo fyi btw irc p2p

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline? rarely
Please list them: googled

will you give us some feedback on what we said plus what you did for school? it would be cool dude.

What is your age? 27
What is your gender? F
How frequently do you use the internet? every day

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email - yes
Research for school/work. yes
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) yes
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) yes
Use internet bulletin boards. yes
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) yes
Online gaming no
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) yes
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) no

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? some of the time
Please list them: lol rotfl imho imo btw irc p2p so googled photoshopped

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?

Only for googled and photoshopped. So not that much.

What is your age? 36
What is your gender? M
How frequently do you use the internet?

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email X
Research for school/work. X
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.)
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,)
Use internet bulletin boards. X
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) X
Online gaming
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger)
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC)

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online?
Please list them: N/A

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?
Please list them:[/QUOTE] N/A

What is your age? 36
What is your gender? M
How frequently do you use the internet? Daily

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email Yes
Research for school/work. Yes
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) Nope
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) Very rarely
Use internet bulletin boards. Yes
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) Yes
Online gaming Nope
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) Occasionally
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) Occasionally

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? not at all
Please list them:

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline? not at all
Please list them:well googled or newb are the only ones I've every said, but not lately.

What is your age? 26
What is your gender? M
How frequently do you use the internet? 3-4 hours per day

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email Constantly
Research for school/work. Weekly
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) Daily
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) Daily
Use internet bulletin boards. Do forums count? If so yes, if not no
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) Occasionally
Online gaming Occasionally
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) Daily for work
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) Never

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? Very rarely - and only when playing warcraft
Please list them: any of the various warcraft/gaming specific terms.

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline? Never in regular conversation.

Please list them: N/A

Hope you still need new responses.

What is your age? 22
What is your gender? Male
How frequently do you use the internet? Daily

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email x
Research for school/work. x
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) x
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) x
Use internet bulletin boards. x
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon)
Online gaming
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) x
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC)

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online? I would say other than "google it" I never hear any internet words. I don't know how often I hear "google it", I would say maybe a couple times a month, during my school year.
Please list them:

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?
Other than the odd "google it" I dont hear any
I hear "google it" at most 2 times a month throughout the school year.

What is your age? 39
What is your gender? male
How frequently do you use the internet?daily

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email yes
Research for school/work. yes
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) no
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) no
Use internet bulletin boards. no
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) yes
Online gaming no
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) yes
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) no

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: surf, blog

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online?
Please list them:

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?
Please list them: googled, surf

What is your age? 32
What is your gender? Male
How frequently do you use the internet? Daily

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email yep
Research for school/work. yep
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) yep
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) yep
Use internet bulletin boards. yep
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) yep
Online gaming yep
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) no
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) no

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online?
Please list them: a lot all of them mostly in WoW

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?
Please list them:[/QUOTE] rarely googled

What is your age? 24
What is your gender? Male
How frequently do you use the internet? 10-16 hours per.. day.. seriously.

Please indicate all the online activities that you engage in:

Check Email: not really, only when I'm expecting something
Research for school/work. Nope
Browse social websites (i.e. myspace, facebook.) No
Entertainment websites (i.e. ebaums, somethingawful,) sometimes
Use internet bulletin boards. No.. wait yes, Yes.
Commercial activities (i.e. ebay, amazon) No
Online gaming Yes, World of Warcraft
Online chat programs(i.e. aim, msn messenger) Trillian(multiple messengers combined)
Online chat rooms (i.e. IRC) very rarely nowadays.
Online Porn: NO! Sicko! Not me, I'm a christian! That's what I tell my preacher anyway..

Examples of words that may have originated from the internet: pwned, l33t, r0xx0red, n00b, googled

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations online?
Please list them: VERY FREQUENTLY, Nub, GG, GTFO, wtf, woot and the infinite number of World of Warcraft specific abbreviations.

How frequently do you utilize or hear words that may have originated on the internet in conversations offline?
Please list them: It depends on the person, I'm not going to say GG nub to my dad, but I usually do to friends that know the language.

I hope to see the results of this survey.