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Internet friends and the real world
Verergoca:
Your trying to decide on a topic, and all im trying to tell you, dont pick the internet! Go visit your local jail/nuthouse/liberry/senate for good ideas on sociology projects or something! Get off your arse, go out and actually ask people, instead of sitting behind your computer and claiming browsing a webcomic forum is for school!
Verergoca:
To recombobulate before my brain melts.
--- Quote ---Dear internet, please do my homework for me.
--- End quote ---
Verergoca:
Very well!
*crawls under his blanky*
(also, while a good topic, CHEWED TO DETH, RECHEWED BY A COW, AND POSTDIGESTED BY FLIES WITH PHD'S comes to mind)
((come one, give me a break, my mind is recovering from the awesomeness that was Indy!))
FruitKat:
This is pretty interesting, but I don't know how skewed my data would be.
I'm going to talk about my Grandad who is 86 years old and frequently uses the internet. He worked all his employed life in a radio repair shop and also served in World War 2 fixing planes and working on radio systems. Anyway during this time he became very interested in amateur radio. He set up his basement to accommodate this and put a huge aerial on his roof. Anyway long story short, before the internet and all that, he communicated around the world with people. People who had things in common with him (they knew enough to build similar things and use them successfully) and it was all on a social level. As a kid I would sit in and listen in on him talking about his family life and the weather, and he made friends with people he had met all across the world. He also went traveling with his wife and met a whole bunch of them in South Africa, Britain, the States and Australia. There are now websites set up for ham radio people to chat online and talk through the internet instead of the sometimes unreliable amateur radio. So my Grandad frequently uses this as a means to communicate with a bunch of people.
I guess this is why my family has been a lot more receptive to me making friends on the internet and traveling around the world to meet them. I don't know if that is useful in any way at all, but hopefully it was at least interesting.
Dissy:
--- Quote from: Sox on 03 Jun 2008, 13:51 ---A lot of the folks who meet groups of people from the internet are probably into fringe culture. I find it insanely difficult to find people with similar interest without the use of the internet. I can only think of ONE person I've met without the internet that had similar interest to me. I'm sure that isn't true for everybody, but it's certainly going to be the case around here. The only other people I've known who've met people from the internet are lonely middle aged people who have trouble dating.
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I'm actually, the opposite of Darryl here. Most of my friends have similar tastes in a lot of stuff. I use the internet to expand upon my personal knowledge of stuffs, mainly, and secondarily, to keep me entertained. AS for using the internet to meet people: I love meeting new people. I have an a really bad case of shyness/fear of rejection/social ineptness/whatever you want to call it that prevents me from conversing with other people in "meatlife". The internet helps me to overcome that, but it takes out the face-to-face time. Although, the internet has helped me to become more outgoing, I'm able to speak up in class, approach & talk to people, and carry on conversations.
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