How do YOU connect online?

I'm taking a graduate level course on Technology & Society, and for my Big Term Assignment, I've decided to try something a little non-traditional. Taking a page out of Alan Levine's great playbook, I'd like to ask people to respond to a simple question:

More info is available over on the project website - but the short version is that I need people to respond to the question, however they interpret it, in whatever format they're comfortable responding. I will assemble the responses into a narrative which will be published on November 30, 2009.

Please spread the URL - I need as many different responses and perspectives as possible.