Visitor vs Resident

People use the world of the Internet in a variety of ways. The narrator of the video, Visitors & Residents: The Video, pigeon-holes users into two different groups, visitor and resident. Visitors tend to leave no trace, are private, only use the Internet to complete assignments or get something done, and feel no need to establish online identities and networks. Residents live a good portion of their lives online, try to be visible, are communal, and strive to make their comments short and of good quality instead of unnecessarily wordy. I see myself mostly as a visitor of the Internet for reasons including: I often simply use it to accomplish tasks, I haven't yet become well known in social networks, and I tend to stay private. In my experiences so far, trying to become a resident has been more of a daunting activity than a helpful one. However, in the future, I see myself getting helpful information and ideas online from teachers locally and around the world. Also, it will be more common for people to have social networks on the Internet, and therefore I will be probably be more communal and less private.