And I wount even try to deny it. But a few things got me thinking lately, I have been on the internet around 7 years now, longer than alot and a lot less than a few. I've been part of multiple debate forums, email lists, irc channels / networks, etc, etc, etc. I've met people thru the most secluded and small of the internets multitude of corners, some in real life as well.
There's a good few of these, that I've kept in contact with, regardles, some on a very remote and infrequent basis, some I consider RL friends, tho I always have had problems with that distinction to some extent. Now, in the stereotypic view of a lot of people, this would place as me as a sad git, who sits around the whole time, doing nothing but posting mindless noise thru cobberwiring globally... While I am also that, I still have a fairly large social, work and family life. So in my eyes, I have simply expanded my possible point of contact with human beings.
Having been around for a while on the internet, you can't but help notice trends. Hell you may even dare to foresee snippets of the future by observing them. One aspect I undoubtedly believe will become more and more widespread, are these online communities of interrests. Not different from many other social activities, and yet so, because of the primary means of communication: It is fairly certain, that you will communicate only with a mere fraction of these people, thru other means.
So my somewhat trivial statement is: More and more people will spend more and more time communicating with each other directly or thru a proxy. How do you think this will change society and the people that inhabit it?
There's a good few of these, that I've kept in contact with, regardles, some on a very remote and infrequent basis, some I consider RL friends, tho I always have had problems with that distinction to some extent. Now, in the stereotypic view of a lot of people, this would place as me as a sad git, who sits around the whole time, doing nothing but posting mindless noise thru cobberwiring globally... While I am also that, I still have a fairly large social, work and family life. So in my eyes, I have simply expanded my possible point of contact with human beings.
Having been around for a while on the internet, you can't but help notice trends. Hell you may even dare to foresee snippets of the future by observing them. One aspect I undoubtedly believe will become more and more widespread, are these online communities of interrests. Not different from many other social activities, and yet so, because of the primary means of communication: It is fairly certain, that you will communicate only with a mere fraction of these people, thru other means.
So my somewhat trivial statement is: More and more people will spend more and more time communicating with each other directly or thru a proxy. How do you think this will change society and the people that inhabit it?
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