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do you think it is important to hangout or see friends when most of them are online anyway??? Is face-to-face relationships over-rated? If it is, what about personal relationships?
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Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
The face to face, while it is being pushed to the wayside by way of technology, is still important on some sort of primal level to us as humans.
However, human "contact" via the web is, for some, the only contact they get. On the internet, your appearance, financial status, etc. is a moot point. Or for people that, for whatever reason, are unable to get out of their house it provides a way for them to reach out an communicate with other people that normally they would not have. And I truly think they are better for it
Personally, I have way more "friends" online, than I do in real life. I am just not comfortable around people. They... get on my nerves, a lot. But here, I can interact with people from all corners of the globe, from all walks of life, and of all beliefs.
I mean, where else could a Fundamentalist Christian(Draenor), a Bhuddist(Nasica), and myself, whatever the hell I am, not only get along, but have a polite discussion on the joys of Mixed Martial Arts?
I'll use myself as an example: When I communicate via text I have no difficulty expressing my thoughts in a confident and coherent manner. When I am placed in the same situation with a complete stranger, I am very introverted and, well, I guess awkward. When I am in a large group of unfamiliar people, I'm pretty much useless when it comes to mingling unless I am thoroughly inebriated. When I am with a group of close friends, I am an extroverted, effective communicator.
What was the point of that ramble? Communicating via text doesn't build social skills that you can use in everyday interactions. You have to practice actually speaking to someone or you'll be a fish out of water in the game of life.
Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.
Hey, that sounds awkwardly familiar. Hmmm, maybe you're me, and I've finally suffered some form of psychotic break, and split off into two divergent, yet similar personalities...
The Clockwork avatar, and the skin of the hottest of Hollywood hotties on the sig, from a movie I'm especially fond of, isn't helping matters.
Hey, that sounds awkwardly familiar. Hmmm, maybe you're me, and I've finally suffered some form of psychotic break, and split off into two divergent, yet similar personalities...
The Clockwork avatar, and the skin of the hottest of Hollywood hotties on the sig, from a movie I'm especially fond of, isn't helping matters.
According to Seinfeld, we could be bizarro counterparts.Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.
i reckon that although technology allows you to be alot less shy u do have to have som kind of face to face disscussion (no not with web-cams) it does help u get to know the real person for all you guys know i could be some 65 year old petifile and not know yet feel entiarly comfort able talking to via msn, text or forum. i am by the way not 65 and not a petifile(lol i can't spell)
take what you can but not what isn't yours. "fight to the end and never give your enemy the satisfaction of victory"