Question:
Here’s the original: Are you interested in participating in a study about friendships? If so, you are invited to participate in a doctoral dissertation study designed to again a better understanding of how face-to-face and Internet friendships are perceived. You will be asked to complete a questionnaire found on the web page listed bellow. Your responses will be kept completely anonymous and your involvement will take no more than one and a half hours. As a thank you for taking the time to participate in this study, five drawings for $100.00 each will be conducted. To enter the drawing, you must complete the questionnaire and submit your e-mail address as instructed. There will be one winner per 75 participants. In order to participate in this study, you must be at least 18 years old, a permanent resident of the United States and currently be involved in at least one friendship with someone you met through the Internet and another with someone you did not meet online. The Internet friendship must be solely textually based, that is, no communication or meetings have occurred beyond meeting in chat rooms, using e-mail or any textually based computer-mediated medium. The other friendship must involve face-to-face contact. If you do not meet the above requirements, please ignore this invitation. To learn more about this research or to participate, please follow this URL link http://www.friendshipsurvey.com Sincerely, Hala Haidar M.S., Clinical Psychology
Response:
ah well – that rules me out – I’m not a US citizen — RB Go l
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