We live in a time when people are becoming less and less likely to gather together in face to face groups instead they are forming online social groups on the internet. No longer are they socializing in close physical proximity with others instead they are communing with typewritten words on a computer screen. The anonymity of this practice seems to give people the courage to openly share private details of their lives. These computer conversations can become very intimate and in some cases cathartic.
Online social meetings also allows people create fantasy worlds with fantasy identities. Because distance means nothing one can socialize with others from around the globe. Next door or halfway around the world people are kept a safe 18 to 24 inches or so (the distance to the computer monitor) from each other.
While many of these online meetings are casual and friendly there are those relationships that are built on deceit. These become sinister when they lead to a face to face meeting. There is frequent reports in the news of sexual predators seducing children to meet with them.
I don't feel comfortable having a relationship by internet. I need to be able to look another person in the eyes and have them look into my eyes before I can feel any closeness to them. I can find no warmth or any true bonding in a computer screen. So for me Internet social networking is just a form of entertainment and a way to build very casual relationships, nothing deep or lasting.
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