Computer and Internet Questionnaire
Due March 20, 2000
Your Name: .                         .
Before completing the questionnaire, read the following two Internet articles:
Survey Shows Widespread Enthusiasm for High Technology http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/poll/technology/index.html
Portrait of a Newer, Lonelier Crowd Is Captured in an Internet Survey  http://crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/lonelyinternet.htm

1.   What kind of computer or computers, if any, do you have in your home?

2.   What kind of Internet connection, if any, do you have in your home?  (e.g., telephone modem, DSL, cable modem)?

3.   When did you first use a personal computer?  What did you use it for?

4.   When did you first use email?

5.   When did you first access the World Wide Web?

6.   How has having an Internet connection in your home changed your life?  (Or, if you do not have one, how do you think your life would be different if you had one?)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

5.  Do you think having an Internet connection has:
    a.   made you more isolated from other people?
    b.   brought you closer to other people?
    d.   had no effect on your relationships to other people?

6.  Based on people you know, which of the two articles do you think best describes the effect of the Internet on people's lives?  Why?
 
 
 
 

7.  How do you think Rutgers University in Camden could use the Internet to enrich your educational experience here?  Please think about things that would help you personally.  (Continue the answer on the other side of the page).