Going wiredless
Despite saving this post as a draft since October 8 until I could think of something appropriate to say about the links below, I still can't think of much to say at this very moment, so here goes:
Some Tech-Gen Youth Go Offline
I never really liked MySpace much more due to the fact of people's outright superficiality as displayed on their profiles as well as the unsavoury ads which flaunt their disgusting sinfulness all over your screen. The young people mentioned in the links above make good points in their respective stories. I admit to have a Facebook account and funnily enough, it's composed of mostly people I don't talk to all that often but whom I'm still friendly with. A few folks there I do talk to on more occasions than not, but like I said, the majority is otherwise. I'm only allowing a Facebook account because it's still allows for more privacy and closer connections than MySpace but I say that very loosely.
Ah, the Warmth of Human Contact
It's quite silly, and I think rather pathetic, how some people would resort to online chatting over a "irl" conversation when confronting personal issues with certain people. I will openly admit I know how uncomfortable it is to speak to someone in person, as heck, I'm most definitely one of those people, but I do know how liberating it is when you can actually speak to people about problems. For me, I see it as trying to improve ones self, to overcome ones personal obstruction to take the courage to face someone in person and say what needs to be said instead of hiding behind a monitor, pecking away. I'm not perfect; I don't express myself well in person. I do try, though, and that's what matters. If people think that it's probably just easy for me, they're too narrow-minded for their own good. Sure, we're weak as human beings, but that excuse shouldn't be allowed to live any further when the first step out of such a mindset is to overcome ones own pride. People like to have strength in character and be known for it; well, they'd better live up to it.
Enough steam. Do read those links.
(And, yeah, I know what I said about the "much to say" earlier).
posted by R.D. @ 8:28 AM
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"What can be bought can be sold" as Maria Leahy puts it in song. It goes for more than material possessions. I've always considered "friendship" built on no more than a bit of text and maybe a picture to be a pretty equivocal use of the word.
This goes for the people I "meet" in the blogosphere or elsewhere online. I know something about them, and can generalize from past experience to form a sort of character, but I don't know them as persons and don't claim to. Nor do I expect them to think they know me as a person. We simply exchange opinions and imaginings in a rather imperfect way, and hence knowledge of each other is limited to that.
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