CT Mayhem `07 - `08

• Person 1:  “I went outside a lot more than kids do today.  We spent more time with outside with the neighbors.”
• Person 2:   “I’m a home-maker so I raised the kids, cleaned the house and went shopping.”
• Person 3: “I read the newspaper and watched the news on television a lot more instead of just looking it up online.”

Were things harder to do compared to now?

• Person 1:  ”It was harder to do research.  You had to go the the library and use more encyclopedias and books.  Now you can just google it.”
• Person 2: “Nothing was really that much harder.  Not for me anyway.”
• Person 3: “It was much harder to get accurate information for research.”

What things were easier to do?

• Person 1:  “It was better to talk face to face with people or over the phone instead of IM or e-mail.”
• Person 2: ”Well nowadays you have to worry a lot more about identity theft and things like that.”
• Person 3: “Nothing was a great deal easier for me without the internet since I’m a business worker.”

How has it affected the way you live and work?

• Person 1:  “Now we can communicate much easier.  And the web has improved business quality and production.”
• Person 2: “It’s easier for me to pay bills at home and shop online.”
• Person 3: “It helps business a tremendous amount and lets me get information extremely fast.  I’m also more involved with sports than ever.  I own a Fantasy Football Team and I’m checking scores daily.”

I would like to thank the people that let me interview them for this assignment.