Interviews

I interviewed my three people in different generations. My 18-35 person was a university student in Hawaii. Her main purpose of using the internet is e-mail and research. She finds it easy to contact researchers and other students in her various projects. Doing research online in her university library helps when she is in another country doing projects with other students from other countries. Its keeps her informed on any progress that is going on her research. In the other hand, she finds it a little occupying when she gets mounds of e-mail and research questions from other students. Its time consuming looking at each e-mail, but she manages to get through them. She occasionally shops online when she has no time to go out and shop.

The 31-61 person is my landlord. She is a mother of three that tries to balance work and her kids high school activities. She is a team mom for her son's high school basketball team, and two daughters volleyball teams. Being busy with her kids high school activities, she uses e-mail to coordinate team mom meetings. She also gets informed of changes to any team issues that deals with the mothers. Being a landlord, she gets information with work related issues from the main offices in Portland.

She orders supplies for the grounds crew to help maintain the apartment complex. In her real estate business she get numerous e-mails about homes that are posted in her website, she makes appointments through e-mail, and also sends messages to confirm meetings with potential buyers and sellers. She finds the internet as a source of business, she uses it to make contact to other people to help run the apartment correctly and help her real estate business in moving forward with clients.

My 61 and up person only uses the internet to use e-mail. Using e-mail to her is convenient to e-mail friends and family. She is just learning how to use the internet to shop on eBay. She explains that using the internet is still new to her. She finds that using the internet has helped her get in contact with friends and family faster than air-mail. She does not feel that the internet has changed her way of communicating with others. The internet to her is a means to make your self too busy. She loves the way how she lives, with limited use of the internet, but finds it easy to find quick meal tips at times.

Interviewing the three people, I found a common ground in all of them. The use of email is a huge part in keeping in contact with others. This channel of communication has been a huge part for the three people I have interviewed. Technology has made some strides in helping people connect with others around the world. I find the older person using the internet handy to use, but does not really rely on it as much as the other two people. Postman thinks through machinery we can achieve goals. This reminds us how much we use the internet to do our various activities and job assignments. We rely on machines to help us in our daily agenda, like the use of e-mail.