HELLO!!!!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in my survey. Like I said before everything will be kept anonymous. I got a tremendous response: 150 of you sent back answers which was way more than my Professor expected me to get. And, yes, I am a university student.

The main part of my project is to figure out if people who use fan-based communities would still do so if there was no anonymity. I got some interesting results that I will share here. And also, to keep things fair I'm giving you my answers to the survey.

1) Gender? Female

2) Country? USA

3) Logins per day? 1-2

4) Would I use real information? No.

5) How comfortable am I in sharing my use of fanfiction with a stranger? 3...which is a lot better than I was a few years ago.

Results of the survey

1) 89% of you are female. 11% of you are male.

I have no idea if this is true for fanfiction in general or if my stories just appeal more to girls than guys.

2) The USA was the most represented country with 43% of claiming that it was your country of origin. The UK was the second most represented country with 11% claiming it as your country of origin.

3) Most of you only login once a day: 29%.

19% stated that you are always logged in.

4) 52% of you said that you wouldn't use fanfiction if it required real names and pictures.

5) Most of you, 28%, were neutral in telling a stranger that you use fanfiction. 11% were completely uncomfortable and 26% were completely comfortable with telling a stranger about fanfiction.

Demotivators:

Change: It's never to late to turn over a new leaf, unless you're really really old and close to the end. Then yeah, it's probably to late.

Alignment: Good...Bad...I'm the girl with the gun.

Procrastination:Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.

Despair: It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.

Cluelessness: There are no stupid questions but there are A Lot of inquisitive idiots.

Indifference: It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile but it takes none to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.

Insanity: It's difficult to comprehend how insane some people can be. Especially if you're insane.

Accomplishments: You can fool all of the people all of the time is your effects budget is large enough.

Achievement: You can do anything you set your mind to when have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.

Adversity: That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.

Agony: Not all pain is gain.

Ambition: The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.

Apathy: If we don't take care of the customer, maybe they'll stop bugging us.

Arrogance: The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too.

Blogging: Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.

Consulting: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

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