The Value of our Cyber Friends (present, acquaintance, meeting, appropriate)

[puffle]

Originally Posted by VillageLife

I met Mike,Livewire,Huck and Motormaker and his wife, we had a great time! Just met Motormaker 2 weeks ago with Mike.
Mike,livewire and Huck are really cool to be with,we still talk on the phone.We don't have problems being on line either,I don't think we have changed on line or off line.

Same here izzy. I have met four online buddies when I moved to Ma. and they are wonderful women.

[VillageLife]

There are many folks here that have met friends,just this weekend a couple of groups met.ptsum met with some and the Maine board met too
http://www.city-data.com/forum/5174325-post143.html

so Sierra,it's life,so this is not really just cyber

[SifuPhil]

I guess with the disappearance of most town centers and friendly corner diners there had to be something to take their place.

Although the Net is a wonderful place to make contact with new people, it's also a primitive, dangerous hunting ground where you can get hurt. Mom's Diner was never like that...

Still, if it's all we have, we might as well learn how to use it and use it properly. Since I have very few friends in real life due to my monkish ways, the ones I develop online are all the more important...

[artsyguy]

Don't completely blame yourself. Most people I've met are too weird/dysfunctional to be friends with, so I'm sure that is the case for a lot of other folks. It is just so much easier and funner to be a monk than make efforts to be included with weird and difficult folks.

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

I guess with the disappearance of most town centers and friendly corner diners there had to be something to take their place.

Although the Net is a wonderful place to make contact with new people, it's also a primitive, dangerous hunting ground where you can get hurt. Mom's Diner was never like that...

Still, if it's all we have, we might as well learn how to use it and use it properly. Since I have very few friends in real life due to my monkish ways, the ones I develop online are all the more important...

[Rcm58]

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

I guess with the disappearance of most town centers and friendly corner diners there had to be something to take their place.

Although the Net is a wonderful place to make contact with new people, it's also a primitive, dangerous hunting ground where you can get hurt. Mom's Diner was never like that...

Still, if it's all we have, we might as well learn how to use it and use it properly. Since I have very few friends in real life due to my monkish ways, the ones I develop online are all the more important...

I think we should start a question center called "Ask Mr Miyagi" with a think tank of about 6 of us. Could be a good well rounded approach.

[VillageLife]

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

I guess with the disappearance of most town centers and friendly corner diners there had to be something to take their place.

Although the Net is a wonderful place to make contact with new people, it's also a primitive, dangerous hunting ground where you can get hurt. Mom's Diner was never like that...

Still, if it's all we have, we might as well learn how to use it and use it properly. Since I have very few friends in real life due to my monkish ways, the ones I develop online are all the more important...

well,after you post here for a while,your antenna will tell you who to contact for a friend. Just like looking for a girlfriend,it's easy,you are using your brain.

[sierraAZ]

Originally Posted by VillageLife

There are many folks here that have met friends,just this weekend a couple of groups met.ptsum met with some and the Maine board met too
http://www.city-data.com/forum/5174325-post143.html

so Sierra,it's life,so this is not really just cyber

I’m not against it. I've also met 2 women from my local forum and I'm happy about it. It's just that keeping long-distance relations is unrealistic. I'm pretty tired of "getting to know" people and typing my life story (btw, I’d feel the same way about the so-called infinite dating). No matter how much I enjoy their online company, they're not gonna be here to have a cup of coffee or a beer with me and I end up exhausted and wired from too much typing...

[Rcm58]

Originally Posted by sierraAZ

I’m not against it. I've also met 2 women from my local forum and I'm happy about it. It's just that keeping long-distance relations is unrealistic. I'm pretty tired of "getting to know" people and typing my life story (btw, I’d feel the same way about the so-called infinite dating). No matter how much I enjoy their online company, they're not gonna be here to have a cup of coffee or a beer with me and I end up exhausted and wired from too much typing...

Dear Sierra, if you wake up thinking about what someone on here said, you are a changed person regardless of their being here nor there. Their significance may be trivial in your peers eyes, but you know their true value non the less. Its a cool thing you can't talk about, thats all!

In a way you can live two lives, you get feedback on issues in reality that you post and you get to deal with them with both little people on your shoulder **tch slapping you in every move you make. I like it!


I hate it but I had better run for a while now.....be back soon!

[SifuPhil]

Originally Posted by sierraAZ

I’m not against it. I've also met 2 women from my local forum and I'm happy about it. It's just that keeping long-distance relations is unrealistic. I'm pretty tired of "getting to know" people and typing my life story (btw, I’d feel the same way about the so-called infinite dating). No matter how much I enjoy their online company, they're not gonna be here to have a cup of coffee or a beer with me and I end up exhausted and wired from too much typing...

Expectations...

[sierraAZ]

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

Expectations...

Could you point at least one expectation...? Because otherwise you start sounding like Polly - not Pollyanna, but the parrot. The post contains statements.