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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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It is a pleasure and torture both......
I still hold that online associations are fleeting and most often a matter of convenience. Most people use up what they can and throw away the carcus afterward.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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... ootherwise, the rest of us simple souls are grievously confused!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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It is simple.....
People come.... take whatever they can....
Then they leave....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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I try not to.....
but the proof is in the pudding so to speak.....
I never make any promises so none can be broken.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Some people like to take what they can and then disappear, so they assume others will be the same. If they do that, they are being very rude -- being on the internet does not make normal rules of etiquette disappear. I suppose the internet brings out the worst in people -- they feel they can behave more badly as it won't reflect on them in "real life".
The nice thing about a community based around a board such as this one is that one can maintain the relationship without having to IM or email everyone every few days.
And of course, this particular messageboard is populated by altogether more sane and mature people. (By mature I mean intellectually mature, not that pointless euphemism for old.)
David
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Also.....
I keep myself for the most part apart from associations any more advanced than the most drasticly casual. I find that in doing so I am not in a position of exposure to this. On rare occasion I do let my guard down and allow someone in.
Always a mistake.....
Always.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I have met people online who have drifted in and out of my life. It was usually an enjoyable contact while it lasted but I was not distraught when they disappeared. There are a very few people with whom I am in almost daily or weekly contact online - usually via IM. They are very good friends indeed. Most of them I have met in RL as well. Although we live thousands of miles apart the friendship (and the affection) is constant and has been so now for years. I know that I work at maintaining these friendships and I think that my friends do too. Online contacts are as firm or as fragile as we make them.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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