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misfoksSomething else was brought to mind today, in following with my introductory entry's theme. A preamble: Someone started chatting with me online earlier today, and the subject soon turned to questions about a convention in the works. I pointed the fellow towards a webpage which would give far more information than I could, but he instead poked me with the admonition that URLs were no substitute for conversation. I couldn't but concede that he had a point, and was reminded of a similar gripe I'd made when I first started hearing about these online diaries.
The Internet has, among other things, made it easy for one to contact and interact with countless numbers of other people--far more than would be possible through the traditional route of meeting people in person. But there's something missing. For all these people you can talk to online, you're still just sitting alone in your room, typing on a keyboard. That doesn't make the people whose text you read any less real, but there's no substitute for old-fashioned organic meetings.
Lately--as I finally get to the point--I'd been noticing that when I send my salutations and polite questions regarding the well-being and current activities of some online acquaintances, I'll get a response pointing towards their online diaries. So now the advance of technology has not only created a population whose interpersonal interactions revolve at least partially around pecking at a keyboard from the solitude of their own rooms, it's now advancing to where live conversation is becoming antequated in favor of merely reading the diaries of others.
If anyone catches me doing that, smack me.
Ooh, look! Icons!
The Internet has, among other things, made it easy for one to contact and interact with countless numbers of other people--far more than would be possible through the traditional route of meeting people in person. But there's something missing. For all these people you can talk to online, you're still just sitting alone in your room, typing on a keyboard. That doesn't make the people whose text you read any less real, but there's no substitute for old-fashioned organic meetings.
Lately--as I finally get to the point--I'd been noticing that when I send my salutations and polite questions regarding the well-being and current activities of some online acquaintances, I'll get a response pointing towards their online diaries. So now the advance of technology has not only created a population whose interpersonal interactions revolve at least partially around pecking at a keyboard from the solitude of their own rooms, it's now advancing to where live conversation is becoming antequated in favor of merely reading the diaries of others.
If anyone catches me doing that, smack me.
Ooh, look! Icons!
