We live in an erra of instant communication that we take for granted. We can stay in touch with people for years without seeing them. We can meet people we've never met! We can bandy amusing intellectual problems back and forth in a forum like this, but do we really converse? Do we really 'know' the people we 'meet' in the e-world?
2006-07-09 16:59:08 · 4 answers · asked by Jim 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
As with movie stars, I subconsciously don't consider the people I meet on the internet as real or tangible.
For my friends and family, it has brought us closer, as we can communicate several times in 1 day as opposed to travelling to visit or phoning long distance.
2006-07-09 17:44:09 · answer #1 · answered by *ღ♥۩ THEMIS ۩♥ღ* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think a person can ever really know another person. Because e-mail is so impersonal and anymous we may show more of ourselves on there than any place else, because after all it's just a bunch of letters typed on a blank screen. You can say anything, be anything, because it's not real. That's the freedom, and that is also the let down when you meet this outragous funny sexy person, and then find that they aren't who they were in cyberspace. It is exception rather than the norm that people behave exactly like they did in cyber.
But it happened before there was even an internet, before tv people would correspond with others sometimes never meeting face to face. I'm sure if we asked people who they thought they were talking to and who they were actually talking to we'd get two different answers as well. Remember, Within words are we truely set free. It always has been and always will be.
2006-07-10 00:15:29 · answer #2 · answered by jadeaaustin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've met people I knew casually, because most of my "internet friends" are thru music sites, so we do catch up at concerts. But recently, I met a few people that I knew very well, thru many hours of evening chats and regular emails. It was as if we knew each other forever, no difference because it was the first time we met.
2006-07-10 00:05:42 · answer #3 · answered by marie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No more or less than those we actually meet face to face.
The advantage to this electronic age, is we get to know someone from the inside out.........rather than in real life, from the outside in
........if at all. However, as with all things/people, there are exceptions.....good AND bad.
2006-07-10 00:04:23 · answer #4 · answered by iyamacog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋