Comments on: Online relations (friends, groups, relationships) http://www.powertrip.net/wagahai/2007/11/05/online-relations-friends-groups-relationships/ Just another blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:30:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Gertie Packbiers http://www.powertrip.net/wagahai/2007/11/05/online-relations-friends-groups-relationships/#comment-8804 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:37:24 +0000 http://www.powertrip.net/wagahai/2007/11/05/online-relations-friends-groups-relationships/#comment-8804 Having experienced the best and the worst of exactly what you are speaking of, I have to say overall, I prefer the new availability of meeting people of diverse interests, education, upbringing, nationality, and residence online to the more closed version of life known before the internet became so widely available, but I do think people fail to stop and realize how much online life must of necessity mirror our RL. Put simply, if you wouldn't walk out your front door and do it, why in the world would you do it anywhere outside your door online? I, too, met the love of my life online, and I experience a happiness with him I never would have hoped for on a daily basis, but I we also took our time, developed the relationship both in RL and our online life over a period of years, and our lives are much the richer for that. Thanks for a thought provoking post. Having experienced the best and the worst of exactly what you are speaking of, I have to say overall, I prefer the new availability of meeting people of diverse interests, education, upbringing, nationality, and residence online to the more closed version of life known before the internet became so widely available, but I do think people fail to stop and realize how much online life must of necessity mirror our RL. Put simply, if you wouldn’t walk out your front door and do it, why in the world would you do it anywhere outside your door online?

I, too, met the love of my life online, and I experience a happiness with him I never would have hoped for on a daily basis, but I we also took our time, developed the relationship both in RL and our online life over a period of years, and our lives are much the richer for that.

Thanks for a thought provoking post.

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