Blog 11

Final Protocol

        My topics reflects upon the question: with the age group of college students, are you able to grasp the correct emotion and point of view of the person behind the other cell phone?

 These will be my questions (subject to change through actual interview)

1. How old were you when you started texting?
2. Can you tell me what that was like?
3. Do you text often?
4. Do you enjoy to text?
5. Do you text differently to different people? How?
6. What was is like when you had a basic flip phone?
7. Can you talk about texting with different phones?
8. Are you the kind of person that prefers to talk in person or through media?
9. Do you think that there are problems with texting? 
10. Could you tell me about displaying emotions through text?
11. Are you able to grasp point of view from the other person?
12. Do you have any experiences in which texting was rough for you?
13. Describe some of the relationships you have where you use texting the most
14. Describe the different purposes you use texting for.  Who are the people you text most frequently and what is the purpose of those texts?
15. Did you ever have a text exchange that made you really angry? Describe.
16. How do you feel about getting straight to the point?
17. Have you ever sent a text where someone misunderstood you?  Tell me about it.
18. Was there ever a time when you blew off on a text?
19. Did you ever have a text exchange that made you really angry? Describe.
20. Can you tell me a story about when you really wanted to go on and on in a text but only said maybe a sentence or a word?
21. Have you ever broken up over text?
22. Can you tell me any related stories?
23. Do you prefer to text through a conversation that isn't easy, rather than over phone or in person?
24. Would you like to share any other personal stories?
25. What was that like for you?
26. Would you have rather seen physical emotions to get through that conversation better?
27. Talk about tone through text?
28. Can you talk about a situation where you used texting as an easy way out?

Overall and in general- Do you think you have had more frustrating or satisfying experiences through texting, given emotion and the stories you have told me? How do you really feel when someone doesn't reply back, or your text is misunderstood?

***Note- the subject I am interviewing is a very close friends, so it will be easy to dig into stories and elaborate, that's why I mentioned earlier that some of these questions may change when I actually do the interview.