Thursday, September 08, 2011
Love my internet pals!
It puzzles me how many people still believe ‘friendship’ or at least bonhomie conducted in cyberspace isn’t a valuable form of social contact, but, say, being thrown together at an NCT group, or in halls of residence, or because your desks at work face on to each other, is. Or that anodyne small talk with a neighbour is ‘genuine social stimulation,’ whereas chatting over Twitter with someone 6,000 miles away who loves Top Gun and Jefferson Airplane as much as you do is just lonely, dysfunctional nerds clashing in cyberspace. This, to my mind, is idiotic. It’s time for us all to come out of the closet about our secret internet chums.
Grace Dent, How to Leave Twitter
# posted by smacky @ 7:52 AM 
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Cyberspace friendship isn't just a valuable form of social contact; it's pretty much my only form of social contact. Besides finding other people who geek out over the same things I do, it's the primary way I stay in touch with my real-life friends (even the ones who live nearby).
And regarding Internet-only, we'll-never-meet-in-real-life friends, some of the most awesome people I know live inside the little box on my lap. :)
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And regarding Internet-only, we'll-never-meet-in-real-life friends, some of the most awesome people I know live inside the little box on my lap. :)
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