I can see what you mean about the Facebook stuff, I tried it, didn't see the appeal at all, and promptly quit-- and Twitter is used mostly to share news with other bloggers or I wouldn't use it myself.
I do enjoy LiveJournal (even if I also often feel hardly anyone reads mine), I always think my posterity will be reading it someday and it will be a helpful tool for them in the future.
Message boards... I stopped hanging out at most of them long ago, because I didn't really feel any connection there, TSR/ToH is where my online friends are though, and it is the main way I interact with them. (To me, there is a distinction between having friends online that you wouldn't have otherwise met because they live far away... or having friends online that are in the same area as you but you choose to never go to visit in person, a la Facebook or something.)
I think the important thing is to find some sort of balance. It's easy for your life to get off tilt if you spend a lot of time doing any one thing in particular...
Thanks for commenting! ^_^ It seems you've thought about this as well.
Though it has its cons, I think online friendships are a good addition to the world. Both as a sandbox for real life and as a way to find more good people. I don't see it as as much work as you're saying, but I think that's because I never did understand all of the basics of keeping in touch with friends, anyway.
Balance -is- very important. When I grow up, I want to have a clock that tells me when it's time to do something else. I'll program it to know the best times to take a walk in the woods, call a friend, have a little snack, or just sit outside somewhere and watch the sun and clouds. :D
Heh, I guess I'm one of those people, though I am trying to avoid it. For a long time, I thought of blogging, interacting on Facebook and Twitter, idling on IRC and having MSN-conversations as my entire social life, and felt little need to go outside. Now, I have been lucky enough to move together with close friends, and I more rarely waste time on IRC and MSN (though I still think that many of my best conversations have been text-based
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The internet lost its respect from me when it gave me the opportunity to hide from the real world so much, I lost the necessity and thus ability to decently interact with said world. When later I experienced how extensive human nature is, and how dependent we are upon these abilities, and how humiliated you can become when you depend on the internet instead, me and the 'net split ways and have been arguing ever since.
Luckily, I, too, have moved together with good friends, and they are my primary source of happiness. The fact that I've been away from that home for five weeks is making this reply a little biased by poor moods. At the moment, my reply to your question is "because I don't want to".
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I do enjoy LiveJournal (even if I also often feel hardly anyone reads mine), I always think my posterity will be reading it someday and it will be a helpful tool for them in the future.
Message boards... I stopped hanging out at most of them long ago, because I didn't really feel any connection there, TSR/ToH is where my online friends are though, and it is the main way I interact with them. (To me, there is a distinction between having friends online that you wouldn't have otherwise met because they live far away... or having friends online that are in the same area as you but you choose to never go to visit in person, a la Facebook or something.)
I think the important thing is to find some sort of balance. It's easy for your life to get off tilt if you spend a lot of time doing any one thing in particular...
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Though it has its cons, I think online friendships are a good addition to the world. Both as a sandbox for real life and as a way to find more good people. I don't see it as as much work as you're saying, but I think that's because I never did understand all of the basics of keeping in touch with friends, anyway.
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Luckily, I, too, have moved together with good friends, and they are my primary source of happiness. The fact that I've been away from that home for five weeks is making this reply a little biased by poor moods. At the moment, my reply to your question is "because I don't want to".
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