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Those 3-4% of respondents are still mistaken. It is a common misconception that the Internet is the same thing as the Web. You can use Facebook and not the We
by dublinben 11y ago
Those 3-4% of respondents are still mistaken. It is a common misconception that the Internet is the same thing as the Web. You can use Facebook and not the Web, but you can't use Facebook and not the Internet. This research is trying to figure out how many people hold that exact mistaken belief.
- scott_s 11y agoI believe arihant understands that distinction, going by their sentence, "However, they conflated the term internet with the web." arihant's main point was that if the point of the survey is one understanding of words, then the wording is going to be very important. (And wording is already important in surveys.)
- arihant 11y agoBut that's not what their conclusion is. Their conclusion is that people think that they aren't using Internet when they're using Facebook. This makes it sound like these users don't get the concept of Internet. While I think they do get the concept but messed up on terminology. This article makes it sound like these users think Facebook works with some kind of magic dust. That's not it. They do get the concept, I think. If the surveyor cannot themselves distinguish between knowledge of terminology and understanding of concept, I can only conclude that their communication with the people surveyed was equally malformed.
- dhimes 11y agoI agree that they don't get the concept of the Internet, my reading of dublinben's comment is that the issue is deeper: even the article confuses the Internet (the wiring, routers, etc.) with the web (the pages and software/servers). The sarcastic word 'Interwebs' came about to poke fun at those who didn't understand that difference.