I spoke to a peer about their project and they said they were using Omegle to ask questions to the public about post natal depression and she was receiving some interesting responses so I thought I’d try asking questions on there as well.
Omegle allows you to observe two strangers discuss your question and it’s interesting as some will have a debate about topics. One of the questions I asked was whether they realised that there was derogatory language in music or not and I had responses where some people didn’t know but then on the other hand I had people who knew but just said it is just the music business, it is what sells. So from this I take away that people just accept the language in music as its seen as the normal but in my campaign I should try put the words in a ‘normal’ everyday context and it may shock people when its separated from the music.
Other questions were in relation to the emoji element I have been looking at, questioning whether you can have a conversation just using emoji’s and if not why? Some responses were good as they actually had a conversation with them and in the end they both responded with ‘I love you’ to each other, this is interesting to me as they are complete strangers who have found mutual ground. On the other hand I had negative responses where they would just say no straight away; another common comment was that they were on a computer so they were unable to which is a key point to highlight. Therefore the use of emoji’s will depend on the technology you have available to you. As well as these responses I had one where they bluntly said they’re not a teenager and everyone should use proper words rather than being lazy, they almost seemed angry at the thought of answering the question and using emoji’s. So this poses a question do you need to be young to use emoji’s or does this not matter?
