You might have helped Cameron Marlow get his Ph.D. [ He got it! Congrats, Cameron! ]

Now you can give a hand again. Jiali Ye is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University. She's conducting a survey on the maintenance of friendships developed on the Internet. If you are currently having a friendship (not romantic relationship) initiated and exclusively maintained online, you are welcome to participate in the study.

To participate in this study, simply go to http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwjou/esurvey/consentform.html
Your responses will be confidential. The survey will take about fifteen to twenty minutes.

After completing the survey, you can send an email to jye1 at gsu.edu with subject "participation" in order to receive information about the survey results when they become available.

Jiali's study focuses on Chinese and American users. A chinese questionnaire will be posted soon. Please feel free to spread the word.