Mental Meanderings.

[tawny918]

Is it weird to be really good friends with someone I never expect to see again? To be online friends with someone who's really really great online, but who I can't ever picture having a face to face conversation with? To not be able to picture a person while you're iming them, because its been upwards of a year since you've seen him

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[amusingly_odd]

I come off mostly just as awkward online as I do offline. But I'm a little more confident, so I talk a little bit more because I have faith in my ability to not stutter. But a lot of my shyness and awkwardness still translates. Just not as much. So I hear ya yo.

And for me, that's not that weird to have strictly online friends because that happens to me. In the instances of the Alexes. Although that's mostly my fault. Because I keep trying to keep interactions relegated only to the internet. Since I fear awkward silences. And online, you can just not type and it's assumed that you're doing something else. You have a lot less expectations online, so I like that better.

Also, about the memory thing. There are halfway points. That's why there are mnemonics and things like that where you associate things you're supposed to remember with things that you usually remember. So you use those associations to remember what you're supposed to remember. There is probably a better way to explain this, but eh, I don't explain. I just ramble.

[tawny918]

Does online make it harder to be friends with someone or easier? I feel like if I ever talked to Frank offline, for example, I would annoy him or he would annoy me or it would just be awkward or whatever. But online, we can be friends. So it kind of makes it easier, I guess, but then there's the whole if there wasn't an online, we would be forced to interact, and then we'd be real friends and not just online friends. Which means onlineness makes friendship harder. Hmm. I wonder what it was like back when you either talked to someone face to face or else sent a messenger or a letter to them to talk. Did that make life simpler or more complicated?

Why am I so fixated on this topic?