This isn't the real world! This is the Internet!

by Brady Partridge

Posted: 10 years ago 9 replies

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That's why I like spending so much time here.

YemTv 10 years ago

This is digital world!
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thunderbird

10 years ago

It is kind of cool chatting with people who, for whatever reasons, I probably wouldn't cross paths with in my "real" life. I find it hard to find a way to phrase it accurately, since the Internet is real. Conversations here are real. Interaction is actually occurring here. Anyway, in the physical world, never mind location, such factors as appearance, economic situation, age, health, disabilities, cultural factors restrict interaction in ways that Internet does not.

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Dennis Gaskill

10 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

It is kind of cool chatting with people who, for whatever reasons, I probably wouldn't cross paths with in my "real" life. I find it hard to find a way to phrase it accurately, since the Internet is real. Conversations here are real. Interaction is actually occurring here. Anyway, in the physical world, never mind location, such factors as appearance, economic situation, age, health, disabilities, cultural factors restrict interaction in ways that Internet does not.

...heart to heart and mind to mind, perhaps? Without most of the usual social trappings that bias us.

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tagiscom 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

...heart to heart and mind to mind, perhaps? Without most of the usual social trappings that bias us.

True, you also get past the tourist crap and understand the world a little better!

I dealt with a Polish programmer at one time and chatted to him on Skype quite a lot!

I learn't how Poland is pretty stuffed up, and that he would go to Germany, etc whenever he could just to get out of his depressing country.

I also learnt that tensions between races, still occur, eventhough BS heads of state would never mention it!

But l agree, talking to someone on the other side of the planet is still pretty cool.

I also dealt with a programmer in India, and chatted on Skype!

And occasionally let him take over my Laptop to fix software issues.

The only thing better than this, is making money as well, online!

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- Dennis Gaskill 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by tagiscom
  
  I also dealt with a programmer in India, and chatted on Skype!
  
  And occasionally let him take over my Laptop to fix software issues.
  
  Hmm... how do we know we're really talking to you then?
  
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  seonutshell 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill
  
  Hmm... how do we know we're really talking to you then?
  
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  tagiscom 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill
  
  Hmm... how do we know we're really talking to you then?
  
  This is me,...this is a recording!
  
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constructor 10 years ago

Simply because you find lots and lots of people with same interest as you !!!
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David Gino 10 years ago

One of my favorite things about it is that you can find TONS of like-minded people and actually meet them in real life.
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