Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Cyber is a TOOL to maintain relationships, not to be used exclusivly


I have not created any cyber space relationships. I do not see the need for them. I don’t do online chat boards, or random chat rooms. Well, I guess I do have a cyber space relationship with the students in this class, but with the whole anonymous feature of this blog spot, at the end of the semester I am sure these relationships will end.  I do have a few relationships that are mostly through Facebook, but they all started on a face to face basis, and over many years we have moved to different parts of the world and we use Facebook to keep in touch and share pictures of our families.  These relationships are not exclusive to the cyber world, we also use the phone, and if by chance we are in the local area of each other, we stop to say hi.
I have a niece who thinks cyber relationships are the best. She has “friends” all over the world, but last summer she went on a road trip and tried to see her “friends” and she found out she did not have the relationship she thought they had. Face to face they did not get along as well as they did online.
Just another reason to not waste my time.

1 comment:

  1. I really like your title because it describes cyber communication exactly how it should be. Yeah it may work but like I have said in my post and previous comments that they are two different worlds when it comes to cyberspace and f2f. I feel like it would be different when you meet someone online, talk to them for a while, and then finally meet them in person. Cyberspace seems to depict people in a very different way than actually in person. There are some personality traits that are missing, unless you are on webcam chat which pretty much depicts who you are.

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