I Am The Web Fox At Enigin
By Steve Hill
I always knew I was a bit of a fox and now it has been confirmed by the BBC!
What animal are you?
I am talking about web animals, based on your web behaviour - are you a Fox or a Hedgehog?
Although it is a bit of fun there is serious science behind the tests to see which animal you are.
Initially they thought of just Foxes and Hedgehogs but have not added more animal types that match your web behaviour.
To quote from the BBC web site:
Which web animal are you?
By taking part in the Web Behaviour Test, you’ll also be able to find out what sort of ‘web animal’ you are. You may well now be asking yourself: what on earth is a web animal?
When we started designing this experiment, we talked about web behaviour in terms of ‘fox’ and ‘hedgehog’ people. Why? Strangely enough, because of a cryptic fragment of poetry by the ancient Greek writer Archilochus, which reads:
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
For us, this was a good way of describing two broad groups of web users: spophisticated, social web users adept at skimming for information and multitasking (foxes) and less-sophisticated, non-social web users who focus on one task at a time and have a slower, more methodical approach to finding information (hedgehogs).
But we quickly realised that there were more than two types of web users, so the number of species in our web ecology has now multiplied to eight.
Interesting?
They also list Bears, Elephants, Leopard, Elk, Octopus and Ostrich - check out the test for yourself - Click Here.