just living somewhere doesn't make you part of the community
Oh absolutely, I mean the community of old were people would gather at town halls et al, certainly doesn't reflect how most of us live our urban lives today. And in a way the internet is filling this gap, because we can now associate with people that we might have more in common with than just a geographic locale.
I suspect we differ about weight given to off-line and on-line relationships, but then again I live so far away from the bulk of other users in lj that phone calls and visits to supplment the distance a keyboard brings really isn't practical.
Moreover, I try to be the same person in both RL and online. I don't know that everyone cares to.
Same here, and I know I'm being naive but I tend to expect the same as others that I interact with - but hey, hats off if they've got that kind of time and energy to want to go to the trouble of creating an internet persona - not my cuppa, but maybe it's therapeutic for some?
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Date: 2008-07-27 12:14 am (UTC)Oh absolutely, I mean the community of old were people would gather at town halls et al, certainly doesn't reflect how most of us live our urban lives today. And in a way the internet is filling this gap, because we can now associate with people that we might have more in common with than just a geographic locale.
I suspect we differ about weight given to off-line and on-line relationships, but then again I live so far away from the bulk of other users in lj that phone calls and visits to supplment the distance a keyboard brings really isn't practical.
Moreover, I try to be the same person in both RL and online. I don't know that everyone cares to.
Same here, and I know I'm being naive but I tend to expect the same as others that I interact with - but hey, hats off if they've got that kind of time and energy to want to go to the trouble of creating an internet persona - not my cuppa, but maybe it's therapeutic for some?