-- Sidetrack1 (Friendship thoughts) --
August 27th 2007 17:22
I was chattering to some pals on myspace today and it got me to thinking.
Why is it so much easier to make virtual friends than real life ones?
I am not saying that virtual friends aren't real, some of the online pals I have are better to talk to then the ones I talk to in the pub. All I am saying is it is easier to meet people online than off.
Online, you see, you can just send someone who you have never met a message saying HI and they usually reply without trouble. But if you walk up to a stranger in the street and say "Hello, how are you?" you are more than likely to get some very funny looks and maybe even an unimpressed "Get lost weirdo" reply.
It could be that you can pretend that you are someone else online but many people are themselves whilst chatting on myspace or similar. Blogging, for example, has people who spill out their inner feelings to complete strangers. Just like I am here on this blog. And I am doing this as myself. Although I haven't given you anyones real names but that's just common sense. I don't know if one of you is a weirdo lol (although I sincerely hope you are all as nice as your comments).
So, what makes us able to talk to strangers online more than offline?
It could be down to the amount of time people spend online now. We all see the data for the increase in people online and the amount of people on facebook/myspace etc so I won't bore you with that on here. Also, everything is becoming available online.
Twenty years ago (I was a baby but my mum told me all of this), there wasn't the internet or computers as we know them now. Computers were very basic and very expensive, so everything had to be done manually.
Ten years ago the internet was creeping into homes and many people bought computers for home entertainment. The prices dropped and more people got online. Back then the world wide web was still quite expensive and basic but chatrooms began to pop up and people joined them in the quest to make friends. At the same time, people stopped going to the places they used to go to make friends. Relationships began and were conducted online and we all realised that the net was an easier way of life. This made the internet evolve into what we had......
Five years ago. Around this time, gambling and gaming sites began to make the big time as did online shopping. This deducted even more time from the amount people were out of their homes. Chatrooms began to lose out to social networking sites as it felt safer for some people after the stories of peodophiles and perverts working the rooms.
These days sites like myspace and friends reunited etc are ten a penny and they enable people to search for who they wanna meet. Shopping online is HUGE, including grocery shopping and with the creation of ebay and similar even the carboot sales are being cancelled. Gone is another place we used to go to meet people.
Everything is online now so the only time people actual leave there homes is to go to work or to the pubs and clubs.
How long will it be before we all work from home and there are no pubs and clubs? We will all make our friends online and have no need to leave the house. So gone will be the days of our best friends popping in for a cuppa. The world is becoming automated and soon your friends will be too.
Why is it so much easier to make virtual friends than real life ones?
I am not saying that virtual friends aren't real, some of the online pals I have are better to talk to then the ones I talk to in the pub. All I am saying is it is easier to meet people online than off.
Online, you see, you can just send someone who you have never met a message saying HI and they usually reply without trouble. But if you walk up to a stranger in the street and say "Hello, how are you?" you are more than likely to get some very funny looks and maybe even an unimpressed "Get lost weirdo" reply.
It could be that you can pretend that you are someone else online but many people are themselves whilst chatting on myspace or similar. Blogging, for example, has people who spill out their inner feelings to complete strangers. Just like I am here on this blog. And I am doing this as myself. Although I haven't given you anyones real names but that's just common sense. I don't know if one of you is a weirdo lol (although I sincerely hope you are all as nice as your comments).
So, what makes us able to talk to strangers online more than offline?
It could be down to the amount of time people spend online now. We all see the data for the increase in people online and the amount of people on facebook/myspace etc so I won't bore you with that on here. Also, everything is becoming available online.
Twenty years ago (I was a baby but my mum told me all of this), there wasn't the internet or computers as we know them now. Computers were very basic and very expensive, so everything had to be done manually.
Ten years ago the internet was creeping into homes and many people bought computers for home entertainment. The prices dropped and more people got online. Back then the world wide web was still quite expensive and basic but chatrooms began to pop up and people joined them in the quest to make friends. At the same time, people stopped going to the places they used to go to make friends. Relationships began and were conducted online and we all realised that the net was an easier way of life. This made the internet evolve into what we had......
Five years ago. Around this time, gambling and gaming sites began to make the big time as did online shopping. This deducted even more time from the amount people were out of their homes. Chatrooms began to lose out to social networking sites as it felt safer for some people after the stories of peodophiles and perverts working the rooms.
These days sites like myspace and friends reunited etc are ten a penny and they enable people to search for who they wanna meet. Shopping online is HUGE, including grocery shopping and with the creation of ebay and similar even the carboot sales are being cancelled. Gone is another place we used to go to meet people.
Everything is online now so the only time people actual leave there homes is to go to work or to the pubs and clubs.
How long will it be before we all work from home and there are no pubs and clubs? We will all make our friends online and have no need to leave the house. So gone will be the days of our best friends popping in for a cuppa. The world is becoming automated and soon your friends will be too.
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