Can the Human Psychology be understood from his/her behaviour on Internet?

I don't know how to respond to this.  Mahaveera is too great and I am too small.  I have given my answer for all three scenarios at the end.  My only request was that all of you narrow down the question so that answers could be easily found

sunder sir you remind me of mahavira ::

one question :: 3 propositions as answers :: another 9 as sub answers ::

:: the way mahavira used to reply to the questions of seekers ::

Don't you all think that the time has come to narrow down the topic for debate?  In my view, we should narrow it down to any of the following :

1. Human behaviour on the internet in a social networking site is

a.  unpredictable

b.  predictable in part 

c.  wholly predictable

2. Human behaviour on the internet in a professional networking site is

a.  unpredictable

b.  predictable in part

c.  wholly predictable

3. Human behaviour on the internet for the purpose of targeted advertising is

a.  unpredictable

b.  predictable in part

c.  wholly predictable.

My reply if such narrowed down debate take place will be "a" for first point, "c" for second and third points.  

Chances are 50-50 yet not accurate and it is purely depends upon on what purpose they are using the internet. Google conducting extensive research on their market analysis and SEO. Few research concepts are based on the user behavior and the mouse actions.  Anyhow, we cannot collect the precise user data from the internet. 

Response to internet is not an easy thing to get it done on business perspective. Nowadays, marketers are using internet as a rich medium for marketing and we can see couple of ads which paves way to grab the attention of the consumers or internet users. Only few are successful in this but not all.

As per my knowledge, we can understand human psychology to some part, but no one surly say that whatever he/she understands is 100% correct. As vershajee said its tough task to make our opinion by net.

well its nice topic to discuss........... but my feeling is its really tough to catch humen psychology through net disscussions..human psychology is blend of unlimited and unexplored vision attitude and perceptions.

To me nothing is more assurable to know a human being than meeting him/her in person.I think that the human psychology in total cannot be determined by their behaviour on the internet. Body language ,pace of speech and  conduct in public are some of the major factors that help in understanding human psychology which cannot be determined from internet behaviour.

However there are certain characteristics which could be less than 10% of that person's actual behaviour that can be attributed from the internet.Often (and I say repeatedly) the use of a certain kind of writing style like being to the point and outright in every write up could give an idea about the characteristic of frankness in a person.Similarly good compiled work can be attributed to meticulousness of a person but these can sometimes differ.

 Sometimes it is thought that people who use the internet to express their feelings do so because they fear talking or raising issues outside or are introverts.This is definitely not true in all cases as there are people who can carry themselves well in both the environments.Certain things like repeated use of abusive language on the net does definitely give us an idea that something is wrong with the person but  practically one characteristic cannot define a person's psychology as a whole and the internet can only give us an insight of one or two traits of a person in most cases.

Understanding a person through the internet is impossible. The human psychology differs based on various aspects. Therefore there is always the huge possiblity for the data to be differ.

This is one argument I feel all of you will oppose me!  I would not make a distinction between gynaecology, orthopaedics, paediatrics etc. and psychology.  All of them are branches of life/medical science.  Therefore, if human body can be understood, human behaviour can be understood too.  If human body can be understood in part, human psychology can also be partially understood.  To me, brain is only a body part but not commander in chief of a human body as many would like to believe.

However, if a human's internet behaviour is properly analysed, google is taking a significant step forward in this direction, a product idea can be made to reach the right human.

Let me share with you a joke I heard in the past. It goes like this "Nuerotics live in Mansions, Phsychotics just below that and Physcho Nuerotics below them".

Never!

Every human by force of habit uses a facade before opening up and sizing up the party in conversation with Its human behavior. Why should a completely unknown open up to a completely unknown even if;

Unknown has a face: Photo on profile

Unknown has a job: Job description on profile

Unknown writes thoughts that match me: Comments and Debates, Blogs... etc

Unknown remains unknown on the NET. You never really know who the person is becuase there is no voice to identify and place the physical self to it at any given time. The face that you might see on chat windows or on cam can be made and put up because you can NEVER really know if that was the same face and voice that was interacting with you!!

CB is something that can be judged physically in a deliberate event but never on the most ethereal medium calle dthe net!! recently the Cuban PM son got involved with some lady on the net who was a guy!!!

As part of course of our CB i have started understanding responses from people that they do on internet on see its being done on them.

One of the responses i got when knowingly i visited a person's Orkut account many times. Another i sent mails many times. There were many things i observed from this behaviour itself. These were done with different segments. (I will put this result on my blog sweetsujit.blogspot.com ) 

I got behaviour pattern from it. But still i think i have to get the data from other sources too. 

Human behavior is never understood from Internet on what they do simply because deviations of mind I mean the only the negative behavior can be meassured. Positive behavior cannot be meassured. If a person watches too many Porns sites or behave promiscuosly then one can attribute it to ID tension some ungratified desires causing tension which is a deviation. Also, a person behaving Nuertoticaly can be identified when one watches worthless information that too many different such sights which are not correlated. Threat mails, inducing mails without any purpose other than sex etc; are signs of tension.

Buyer behavior cannot be classified as mental deviation. It is ones predispostion for certain products except for sex products.

Then the whole gamut of Physychology spins around Physchosis and Nuerosis with many sub divisions for them. Extreme negative thinking is Phsychosis, and worthless thoughts and actions is Nuerosis. Negative thinking with worthless actions following them is known as Phsycho Nuerosis.

Human behaviour is a very complex thing and we can not observe from one dimenssion.