How 'real' is GS to you?

[T1000]

@CM

Since I brought up the thought I wish to elaborate on my original point. In this day and age people are using the internet to make human connections they need for life instead of making them in real life. They spend their time in their rooms or homes and chat with friends that “get them or better understand them those in real life”.

The reason being on the internet you can say anything about anybody or anything and not feel any consequences. More importantly there is no way to ensure that someone can prove you wrong. That is why people choose nick names of what they wish to be and not what they truly are.

On line friends and other such relationships can not compare to those in real life. Because real life is real. Real friends know you, understand you in a complex environment where your actions are judged both on intent and consequences. In this virtual world all that matters is what you type. There is no other indicator of ones personality or attributes.

Those of you who think its not easy to decieve over the internet, I highly suggest you read up on how paedophilies have used myspace and facebook to pick up young boys and girls to molest. Or how due to the internet some gamer went crazy showed up at a guys house and stabbed him to death.

The media is littered with stories of the socially abnormal doing crazy things. I am pretty damn certain that all of us who type here would act very very differently in real life.

Now regarding GS, it is a virtual world where I do not personally care of how I am viewed. Those who I wish to see me in the manner I wish to be perceived I contact out of my own accord with the aim to establish something more than internet anonymity. At that point I make the conscious effort to take an internet nobody and get to know them.

If it works out or there are common elements it becomes an issue out of GS for e-mails, phone calls and whatever is deemed acceptable.

But to say that every random person who posts in this website has some importance to me and my reputation is insane in my humble opinion. The random person in cafe creating a post now regarding some thing does not know me or nor do I know him or her. Their views on my personality or my actions have very little consequence or bearing on my day to day activities or interactions with real people.

There is a reason why people are more lonely today than 10 years ago. There is a reason why people go out much less and have less socializing skills. Its called the internet.

I for one am damn happy I am out of my duty station. I see people every day outside of work. I have lunch with different people. We sit, we chat, we play pool, we watch movies. That is life. That you don’t get off the internet and the desire to replicate social interaction in real life and as well replace it with the internet is a increasing trend these days.

thank God you put it in this way. At least, there are “real” people who believes in reality rather than the MATRIX