[POLL] Communication and Intrusion
Aug. 20th, 2004 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurThe latest issue of Newsweek contains a rant by Robert Samuelson, one of their columnists, in which he rails about why he is never getting a cellphone. He rehashes most of the usual arguments about how they are destroying privacy, intrude on your life, remove the distance between you and work, and so on. He cites a lot of statistics, aiming to demonstrate that people who have cellphones tend to resent them.
Nothing terribly new in it, but this is the first time I've read this particular argument since I've had a cellphone long enough to judge for myself. And I was intrigued, because it totally does not match my experience. So I figured this is an interesting excuse for an unscientific and self-selected survey about how the online crowd feels about "push" communication technologies. Please take a minute and fill this in. (LJ users only, I'm afraid -- you can't fill in a poll anonymously.)
The following is broken down by technology. I'm specifically interesting in push technologies -- ones that can interrupt you in some fashion. The sections are more or less identical to each other: one of the things I'm curious about is the differences in how people feel.
When I ask how useful you find a technology, that's utility in general, not necessarily for work. If you think that it is indispensible for your social life, that counts. When I ask about how intrusive you find it, that's purely asking how you feel about it, regardless of whether that intrusiveness is justified or not.
This is the first time I've done an LJ poll, and I'm building it by hand, so forgive me if I mess something up. This is already my second try. (Having found out the hard way that I can't put arbitrary HTML into a poll.)
[Poll #338617]
Nothing terribly new in it, but this is the first time I've read this particular argument since I've had a cellphone long enough to judge for myself. And I was intrigued, because it totally does not match my experience. So I figured this is an interesting excuse for an unscientific and self-selected survey about how the online crowd feels about "push" communication technologies. Please take a minute and fill this in. (LJ users only, I'm afraid -- you can't fill in a poll anonymously.)
The following is broken down by technology. I'm specifically interesting in push technologies -- ones that can interrupt you in some fashion. The sections are more or less identical to each other: one of the things I'm curious about is the differences in how people feel.
When I ask how useful you find a technology, that's utility in general, not necessarily for work. If you think that it is indispensible for your social life, that counts. When I ask about how intrusive you find it, that's purely asking how you feel about it, regardless of whether that intrusiveness is justified or not.
This is the first time I've done an LJ poll, and I'm building it by hand, so forgive me if I mess something up. This is already my second try. (Having found out the hard way that I can't put arbitrary HTML into a poll.)
[Poll #338617]