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I like the internet [message #26288]

Wed, 28 September 2005 18:39

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Well, mostly, anyway.

I totted up the number of people I've met in real life whose first point of comtact was online. It comes to just under 30. I have not yet been disappointed, upset or hurt.

A number of the people I've met online have proded not to be so nice, ranging from the spiteful to the plain weird. That is kind of OK, because they and I will never meet.

I've met some wonderfully ordinary people, and some extraordinary people online. The thing I like the most is that even the shy ones can decide not to be shy online.

I worked out long ago that the people who come here are not all "whole" people. I am not whole myself, so why should they be? We are all learning to be whole, that's the thing. And we make progress at different rates, and learn who we are. I like that.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		I like the internet By: timmy on Wed, 28 September 2005 18:39
		Re: I like the internet By: marc on Wed, 28 September 2005 20:23
		Re: I like the internet By: Guest on Fri, 30 September 2005 13:30

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