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| Thread ID: 67428 | 2006-03-27 09:42:00 | It has come to my attention..... life observation. | beetle (243) | PC World Chat |
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| 441198 | 2006-03-27 09:42:00 | That i see this more so now, when some people want anonymity it is easy to do on the net............ nobody knows you, where you live, what you look like and even what you do in your life.... sometimes that is good? sometimes it is bad..... :illogical We are often quick to say platitudes, and talk about how sad, happy or supportive we would be..... if something happened..... to our online friend... This is not about me, and not in response to any PM's i have had...... this about a comment some one made to me, (online) about their life, and i didnt know...... and i felt i let them down when they needed this support.... life is often difficult enuf with out people being ignorant of what is going on in your friends life... Why do we have to fill our lives up so totally that we often dont see what is going on in others? living to work? or working to live? PF1 people at times are often as close as family, sometimes we have the odd black sheep in the family............ but really how much do we tell each other, let on what is going on in our lives...... I didnt let on what was happening in my life................ and another person didnt let on what was happening in theirs.... is this privacy or something else that is holding us back? self respect or??? yeah i know another dribble thread, Oh and what i originally was thinking was we spread an enormous amount of inofrmation about our pc, specs and programs, items of accesories etc, but not about other important things in life? odd.... and really with a faceless person on the net sometimes you can give lots of info, and not to the person who is closest to you in life? comment at will........... or not as the case may be... :thumbs: beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 441199 | 2006-03-27 10:08:00 | Hi Beetle We tend to hurt those that are closest to us - it's an unfortunate human trait. With that said and taking your comments on board, I'll say "see you later!". I'm off to spend some time with (the anonymous) Mrs A93! Bye! :thumbs: |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 441200 | 2006-03-27 11:43:00 | I'm off to spend some time with (the anonymous) Mrs A93! Anonymous? |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 441201 | 2006-03-27 12:50:00 | I know what you mean (I think) Shortly before I came to NZ I read a book by some buy who was making a number of observations about life, like how we live from day to day,growing up, raising others, etc . I forget what his name was, but one thing he wrote about that stuck in my mind was what he called 'High tech for low touch'- basically that with the increase in technology, from TV to today's texting, we replace the intimacy and close friendship we should have with people for more superficial relationships- I mean, ever tried having an intimate texting conversation? Can't happen, but how many teenagers nowadays can touch text, and how many would even consider writing a letter? (At the risk of causing controversy, e-mails don't count, and nor do blogs- there's something about letters and face to face conversations that technology cannot emulate) . I'm home alone, typing this out, but really I'd rather be saying this face to face with a glass of wine in my hand (well, I would, if I didn't have a cold!) . I guess we just have to talk more . . . |
Sick Puppy (6959) | ||
| 441202 | 2006-03-27 22:26:00 | Good points and technology is oddly enough isolating us as individuals. Beetle - people are careful about revealing too much about themselves on-line because there are risks. Once posted, that info can be retrieved years later. Also to reveal yourself is to become vulnerable. Not everyone is sympathetic and a nasty "get a life" reply is such a shock that you are better not to risk it. Also there are people in the world who might track a person down in real life with enough clues. The attention might be entirely unwelcome. So it seems to me that the safer course is for private PMs and emails for the sensitive stuff until a person feels able to mention it in an open forum. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 441203 | 2006-03-27 23:03:00 | At the same time it is the world we live in. The answer is to get out and about.Meet people of like mind. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 441204 | 2006-03-28 00:04:00 | Actually that has been somthing on my mind for a while . Internet relationships are really only a shadow of freindship, in the same way a pictue of a pinup girl is a shadow for a real person . What we take to be "community" is often just good socialization skills and politeness . There is no real contact between individuals no common sharing of travails and truimphs . If you stopped posting on the board in 6 months there would be no sign that you even existed . Now this is scary, especially if people start to take internet communities as a replacement for real human contact . Even if you had instant video contact with each other the human interpersonal aspect is still lacking the shared experiences are not there . Its dangerous to want it and dangerous to seek such a deep relationship . In the end once you log off, you cease to exist on the net . Take what you can from net relationships, and give what you can, but never forget that its impermanent and fleeting . |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 441205 | 2006-03-28 00:43:00 | Internet relationships are really only a shadow of freindship, in the same way a pictue of a pinup girl is a shadow for a real person . I think that can only be partly true . In my case, after my marriage breakup 6 or 7 years ago I met a fantastic community of people online . I used the Internet in a particularly special chat environment (it was very G rated and moderated) and got a lot of comfort and support from my almost daily online sessions . In fact a lady I met online from America actually came over here and stayed with me for 4 weeks . Friendships definitly developed - I shared phone conversations with others quite a lot, and some of the guys I met online I even met personally . There were some fantastic personalities . So your sweeping statements, it would be fair to say, are only your experiences, or those you've heard about . Not everyone else's . I admit I did have a couple of um, odd proposals from lonely housewives, but they were very rare . |
Greg (193) | ||
| 441206 | 2006-03-28 02:11:00 | This thread made me think of a TV drama from the very distant past. The story was that people lived underground in little cubicles and communicated by an internet like system and rarely moved from their little station. I think it was called,"When the machine stops". I suspect it was taken from a sci-fi short story and if this is so, can anyone tell me the details as I would be keen to read it because it was rather prophetic. I think this is one for the older generation amongst us | Dally (6292) | ||
| 441207 | 2006-03-28 02:16:00 | Not hard to find on Google The Machine Stops by EM Forster |
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