Saturday, September 6, 2008

My best friend(online)

Today I come to talk about Internet-based relationships. When you think about it, Internet friends are just new age pen pals who we can instantly write and sometimes hear and or see. Some think it's different in that you can't tell what they are really like and who they are, and are untrustable. But then again, so were the old pen pals, but this isn't a comparison post.
Why do we interact with them and become with friends with people that are far away, and could be lying about anything? For all that is known, they could be lying just for truth about you which they could just use against you. It sometimes becomes the opposite and the results are seen on the news, with someone running off in a hopeless thought of love with someone who they just met over the internet. But with all these cons, if you have the mid set to know the limit of the friendship and if you find someone who you know by the ways of webcam and vocal interaction. But even these aren't perfect ways of finding a person who's not bad.
But that's the thinking of someone who's going too far, the internet interaction is just for that, interact of someone who you don't know and then after you tur off the computer, the person doesn't exist in your life anymore. Myself, for example, have two friends who I have known for four years, and I have not met them in real life, but when I log off, I live my real life and don't go crazy thinking about them or wanting to meet them.
All of you may think, well what about my guildmates/clan buddies? Well those are game-linked people who after the raid/match is done, they are done interacting with you. This doesn't mean "oh, don't talk to anyone or even interact with them unless you have a game's objective together." no nothing like that, what I'm saying is that you shouldn't trust anyone and everyone you meet online.

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