Meta: Online Friendships: better than real life?
J Panel Mod: china shop
Definition: What is online friendship? Friendships that started and are primarily maintained online.
How many people met through
- mailing lists?
- LJ?
- newsgroups?
- other?
Distinguish between friendship and acquaintanceship -- where are the lines? For example, exchanging real names, talk on phone or chat, frequent exchange of email? Knowledge of each other's real life? Discussion of life beyond fandom?
What do we perceive as different between online friendships and RL friendships? Not necessarily better or worse, but what's not the same?Access? Ability to project self onto the other's words?
Some people's friendship style works better online, others off. Discuss.
Transitioning from online to real life, and vice versa. How does this work? Are there pitfalls? What if each has different expectations?
Quotes:
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship essentially involves a distinctive kind of concern for your friend, a concern which might reasonably be understood as a kind of love. -- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Whereas we must make conceptual room for the idea of unrequited love, unrequited friendship is senseless. -- ibid.
The relationship of friendship differs from other interpersonal relationships, even those characterized by mutual caring, such as relationships among colleagues: friendships are, intuitively, "deeper," more intimate relationships. -- ibid.
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -- Anais Nin
"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends." -- Mary Catherwood
What makes friendships click? Good communication is what does it. Can you move beyond small talk and say what's really on your mind. If you start doing this, my expereince is that potentially good friends will respond or shun you. Then you know who the really good friends are. -- someone on Yahoo groups
Definition: What is online friendship? Friendships that started and are primarily maintained online.
How many people met through
- mailing lists?
- LJ?
- newsgroups?
- other?
Distinguish between friendship and acquaintanceship -- where are the lines? For example, exchanging real names, talk on phone or chat, frequent exchange of email? Knowledge of each other's real life? Discussion of life beyond fandom?
What do we perceive as different between online friendships and RL friendships? Not necessarily better or worse, but what's not the same?Access? Ability to project self onto the other's words?
Some people's friendship style works better online, others off. Discuss.
Transitioning from online to real life, and vice versa. How does this work? Are there pitfalls? What if each has different expectations?
Quotes:
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship essentially involves a distinctive kind of concern for your friend, a concern which might reasonably be understood as a kind of love. -- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Whereas we must make conceptual room for the idea of unrequited love, unrequited friendship is senseless. -- ibid.
The relationship of friendship differs from other interpersonal relationships, even those characterized by mutual caring, such as relationships among colleagues: friendships are, intuitively, "deeper," more intimate relationships. -- ibid.
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -- Anais Nin
"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends." -- Mary Catherwood
What makes friendships click? Good communication is what does it. Can you move beyond small talk and say what's really on your mind. If you start doing this, my expereince is that potentially good friends will respond or shun you. Then you know who the really good friends are. -- someone on Yahoo groups